very tired and demoralized at work so heres something ive been thinking about an interesting thing that may have happened in the 20th century is that deliberately or not people got really good at wrecking norms
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The cultural left seems mostly focused on establishing and reinforcing novel norms. This is perhaps an unexpected turn of events, but perhaps less-so when you look at what has happened in the past after successful cultural revolutions. Meanwhile,
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cultural conservatives are left without many norms to defend, all of them being effectively undermined by novel physical and social technologies and those old equilibria stomped out. Trying to revive dead norms really probably is best called reaction rather than conservation.
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Trying to defend fraying "liberal" norms against concentrated social attacks from the left is probably the only remaining exercise for conservatives, as defined in this framework.
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My hunch is all of this is especially unpleasant for many of my older readers I imagine a disproportionate number of you, like me, are repulsed by ideological norms enforced by social . . . well, force, and so probably didn't think much of conservatives in the old days
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So, you know, explicitly countercultural forces had a certain appeal And it's reaaaaally uncomfortable watching the counterculture rapidly shifting gears away from undermining old dumb norms to undermining them indiscriminately while inventing new ones at a ferocious pace. end
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Perhaps it is not so much about conservatives of left as much as about vested interests. A group benefiting from existing norms would try to preserve left, right or center. And it is not all or none. Each norm has a vested interest and membership varies.
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I like your model of social norm creation and destruction but I don’t see the creation and destruction of norms as so separate. How do you destroy the norm of black ppl not sitting @ the front without creating the norm of not attacking black ppl for sitting @ the front
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I think the second is just part of a (meta)norm of "people who egregiously violate norms can be attacked, otherwise no"
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I insufficiently understand the period to make a strong claim, but I suspect that 1970s-80s trends in conservativism and Christianity (religious right, political role of evangelicals) complicate this narrative.
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My weak understanding is that they also had a counter-countercultural position.
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