the most upsetting thought-seed that keeps germinating in my mind, that I can't seem to shake or remove, is the idea that almost ALL of human behavior (outside of pure subsistence) is about playing games of social control. That it's so typical that most people don't even see it.
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Say more? I've been identifying this impulse with conservativism, but inter-Left group dynamics are also this, so hmm.
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politics is a particularly obvious case of this, but I wasn't actually thinking about politics when I wrote this. it applies to almost everything people do. why did you assume I was talking about politics?
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I guess because politics seems to be directly relevant and dependant on social control. Also because cruelty as both pastime and instrument of self advancement seems to infect group dynamics really easily.
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ideally, I think politics is a set of cultural norms for group decision making. that's adjacent to social control, but not quite the same thing because it (ideally) ought to be consensual/voluntary. of course politics is almost always much much worse than the ideal.
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nah, the let it be advocates are invisible and uncounted in your stats (let me be)
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