this is silly, "moral" may be a matter of debate and circumstance, but it's eminently practicalhttps://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/904738605616078848 …
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anyway the liberal order requires mass buy-in that doesn't exist anymore, withdrawal into mutually hostile camps is only going to continue
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Mass buy-in (for liberal state capitalism) isn't as close to 100% as it was before social media but it's still pretty high
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the narratives are a little different but I don't think the actual substance of what people want has changed much
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I don't think mass unrest is any worse now than it was in the early 70s
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that situation was fixed by someone pretending to be a conservative and doing massive deficit spending
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that can happen again (but not in this administration)
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I think there is actually less mass unrest than the 70s
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what matters is that consensus reality has collapsed and the various camps have incompatible views of the nature of society
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civil rights &c was about differing ideas on the proper nature of the same basic thing, whereas now the thing itself is object for change
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we're in the meaning-making stage and once camps form coherent models of what they want to achieve the potential for action skyrockets
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