Lots of good *isms die this way: their institutions signalling markets are exploited and gamed to exhaustion.
The frustrated signallers agree to expand the remit of their classifiers with the desire of finding some new territory to hold sway over.
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This continues until the political philosophy doesn't make much sense and is basically held together by network effects and switching costs.
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(Easiest to see this behaviour on outrage markets that have sprung up on the once fertile plains of liberalism, sexism, racism, etc.)
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I have the sneaking suspicion that Animal Farm doesn't require a conspiracy.
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@sebinsua been a long time since I read it but as I recall Animal Farm itself is intentionally open to being read this way, even
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