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my point is not that conservatives or leftists or w/e are good or bad, simply that casting this as a street revolt against entrenched oppositions is incorrect except to the extent that police are still a basically-conservative institution, perhaps one of the few so theres that
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2. Once more speaking positively (vs normatively), one area in which traditionally-understood religious institutions have lost influence is in the setting of public morals and agendas. Rather the moral valence of any particular policy seems to be determined by social scientists
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This is not a particularly novel observation ("the Cathedral") but I think it's worth highlighting individually elements of the set of social functions that were previously carried out by religious institutions rather than rolling them into a single low-resolution item.
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Other examples include charity and education, which were historically the domain of religious groups.
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In a sense you could think of social science and the modern welfare state as a project that functionally usurped these elements of social function from religious incumbents.
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What is worth considering is how the social science/blue state industrial complex differs from clerical organizations in basic organization and information processing. My hunch is that religions were relatively indexical in execution whereas the new system Sees Like a State
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anyway, still thinking about thishttps://twitter.com/antirobust/status/1275246731383332865?s=19 …
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all of this is work in progress and much of it is probably wrong
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I’m not sure this is true about elite institutions. Since at least FDR, the media and academia have been run by old style liberals. Harvey Mansfield likes to talk about how they just rolled over in the 60s to the new left. Same today.
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academia took a sharp left turn in the late 1960s and has not returned to a a more liberal orientation. the media has fractured and split into tribe-specific agitprop peddlers. it's noteworthy that Fox News set the standard and that everyone else adopted it within a few years.
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