Also, I'm probably a bit sensitive. I don't identify as a centrist, I prefer orthogonal (tongue in cheek) but I don't know if I arrived there by biography, environment, or the realization that I can't find examples of either far right or far left societies I want to live in.
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Replying to @jstogdill
Fair enough. It's almost impossible to separate yourself from either your biography or information environment. (I can't do it.) But the people who reject that premise and identify as a "radical centrist" while celebrating their superior "objectivity" bother me the most.
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Replying to @generativist
I think that's fair. We agree that self righteousness is annoying. Especially since of us know a damned thing really. I mean, how can we? We live in a massively complex emergent system. To pretend to fully understand it is just hubris.
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Replying to @Aelkus @jstogdill
Have you seen any research on how many people identify (and conceive of themselves) as a centrist in the former sense? My intuition says it'd be like 90%, but I'm not even sure how I would measure/solicit that information.
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Yea, I'm probably conflating / collapsing the latter with, {Identity(centrist), Claims(radical, objective) | Uses(Twitter)}
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