jocks vs nerds, populism vs technocracy, politics of the gut vs politics of the brain
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It really does come down to that, doesn't it. Trump won among voters who value things other than intellect
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns
Orwell saying he wrote 1984 in response to Huxley's bloodless, technocratic, hedonistic quasi-dystopia
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arguing REAL dystopia is much more likely than quasi utopian spiritual dystopia
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bc people deep down crave conflict and suffering
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
maybe. But i still think we can overcome the need to externalize that struggle into others suffering.
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Replying to @Plutoburns @BootlegGirl
we can, but the people in power would rather we did not
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the super dark part of Orwell was taking agency away for the Party too, the emergent evolutionary theory of evil
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ppl who want power for power's sake will be better st getting power than ppl who want power to do other things
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and "power for power's sake" means power to cause harm as an end in itself
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he said the 1984 Party would obviously beat the BNW Party in a power struggle bc the BNWers don't really want power
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even in Huxley's book he lampshades how the leaders are weirdly inhumanly altruistic in their twisted way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
huxely thought goodness would be corrupted by tech. Orwell knew we were already corrupt.
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