common historical identities perhaps included nationality, race, language, family, educational affiliation, bowling club, whatever most of these are far less important, atomization, bowling alone, secularization, etc etc etc
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see also BLM protests in fucking Slovenia or whatever. also US wignats stanning the CCP or whatever idk. work in progress, toy model
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on further reflection this doesnt feel original either generally nor even to me its a little tiresome "current weird trends continuing in what seems to be a bad way" i guess maybe the implication of greater interest is what this looks like in the long run
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reading Dominion by Holland right now. also compare The Final Pagan Generation thinking about the Reformation, the Thirty Years War a lot about the Enlightenment maybe we never really got past Marx either lots of historical models, feels hard to generalize from them tho
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but im not sure there's really that much to be predicted, not much space to maneuver, and maybe we understand all of this well enough so rather maybe its just a matter of strapping in and trying to make it through to the other side whatever that happens to be
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this is Andrew Breitbart’s model
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seems like this is conflating "party politics" with "politics," where someone like Schmitt might argue the nature of the political identity is that it is always primary, in that it is the one that defines the state you live in and what antagonism you will die forpic.twitter.com/aINko6QNbc
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Grandma: don't marry someone who isn't Catholic Mom: don't marry someone who isn't Republican Me: don't
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In the US, Liliana Mason articulates this collapse in Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.
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My own toy model (and also dissertations stuff) kinda assumes the collapse is broadly what happens as we spread our time out over wider and wider spaces.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1375086665220296710 …
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