toy model historically, politics was a secondary identity. voting patterns perhaps reflected ones primary identity, whatever it was; coalitions formed from this contemporarily, politics is more and more the primary identity as old identities have faded out
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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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then: Republican dad and Democrat mom is literally in every sitcom now: well those couples got divorced years ago so I guess the silver lining is no huge uptick in domestic violence
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I don’t think it is an endpoint of developed countries. At some level we are beginning a proactive, and unfortunately violence propelled, discussion of how we should develop.
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well--let's substitute endpoint with say "cultural attractor" or something like that
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always felt bad for the UK police during the George Floyd protests what were they supposed to do — apologize on behalf of Minnesota?
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