this doesn't mean they don't have wealth or power, but it is agreed upon they have the Wrong Opinions
and self-criticism (in the maoist sense) has been a rapidly growing aspect of lefty culture for some time now
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I take it you're reactionary. So do you have anything positive to assert as superior? Or is your role merely culture critic?
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I don't think I'd describe myself as a reactionary. I agree with many of the diagnoses but few of the proposed solutions
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my most recent professed ideology was ancap where a lot of solutions I like in theory but have concluded are utterly unworkable
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the major shift being from thinking tribalism and tribal conflict were problems that needed to be wiped out, now think this...
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...is impossible, most people will always think that way, and they must be accommodated or at least managed
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a good solution needs to have healthy prosocial norms for tribalists along with robust analytical tools for rationalists
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plus virulence plus aesthetics plus absence of insane death spirals (this one is really hard, felled fascism and communism...
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...and will likely claim liberal democracy in time). I am not sure what that looks like yet, but I hope to
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