just noticed a weird thing there used to be a ton of leftist cause areas. you could be a cool leftist by protesting china occupying tibet or by supporting gay marriage or by sending shoes to honduras or opposing the middle east or destroying the sun (long term cause of coal)
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yes global warming straggles on but it seems like the space of cause areas has (i) contracted dramatically, and especially (ii) become less international in focus
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my wondering after noticing this is whether (i) theres just been a memetic outcompetition of everything else by identity stuff, and (ii) its reflective of a more general cultural turn inward by the US
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