he's a bog-standard coastal elite. std dev or two above mean, idealistic, aloof, myopic
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I never had to recalibrate to filtering, I grew up here, this is how I process reality. I had believed that this was *sufficient*
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and that as more people were raised this way it would emerge naturally. but turns out I was wrong and it isn't enough
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I'm oversimplifying, but I grew up on fandom message boards. Run by, in retrospect, remarkably competent admins,
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So, effective 'governance', to me, looked like "carve out a piece of territory, exit at will, admins have full power..."
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"…but admins who want actually interesting discussions are going to have clearly stated guidelines publicly posted."
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And I just lived in that bubble. I didn't care about politics *at all*, until I discovered that politics seemed to care about me
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