Lots of good *isms die this way: their institutions signalling markets are exploited and gamed to exhaustion.
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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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(Great ideas hat now seem to be completely ridiculous on the fringes and getting more and more ridiculous as time goes on.)
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(These are probably quite wacky thoughts. I'm more or less thinking aloud so my apologies if this doesn't fully work or has annoyed anyone.)
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