i think anyone hoping for some kind of woke rollback is probably going to be disappointed even in their best case scenario the ideology is thoroughly embedded into institutions' structures culture and personnel
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or build your own institutions that handle all of the problems that existing ones handle despite their dismal state i write this in a dismissive tone but it could probably be done absent laws protecting incumbent institutions, said institutions lobbying for more if threatened
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maybe your best game is building those institutions and fighting as hard as you can to maintain your ability to use them and making sure that they're functioning and waiting in the wings for every opportunity
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i see some space for this because probably with the information age many incumbent institutions were probably going to become defunct anyway, even absent an iconoclastic ideology so there may be canopy cleared for growth once the deadwood finally collapses
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I wouldn't count on it.....
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The overarching bubble seems to have been pretty stable for much of the last century, if Orwell's writings are anything to go by. E.g. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-freedom-of-the-press/ … But as I said elsewhere in this thread, I think it may due to pop.
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Well, not pop, but float away into irrelevance.
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My dad keeps saying that everyone who lived through the 70s should know how this goes. Everyone entered the 80s and looked back on themselves with horror and revulsion and then we ended up with Reagan.
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It could be cyclical, it could also just be the wobbling of something out of balance
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But of course it transmits intergenerationally, because of endocrine disruptors.
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but maybe that selectively prevents intergeneration
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