have you guys heard about something called "The Paradox of Tolerance?" It's a brilliant explanation of how, if you want a tolerant society, centrist thinkers must be executed if they offend a twentysomething dumbass who goes to Evergreen or something. Rick & Morty taught me
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But it sits awkwardly now - too freewheeling for the red guards it provides intellectual succor to, too illiberal for the classical liberals who are its most practical allies.
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1/Interesting. IT seems to provide rhetorical cover such that you can "attack" from any position, which could certainly be useful in ongoing political fighting. I should note that, w.r.t. my model, I'm not saying people in bad faith adopt ideologies for advantage; rather, while
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2/of course there is opportunism, "true believers" will tend to be the best proponents of whatever ideology they espouse (if only because, all else equal, less cognitive load if you actually believe it) -- rather, someone like an evolutionary mechanism (w/ institutional
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3/incentives as the environment & test of 'fitness') do the sorting.
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This seems right to me - I tend to think of “base & superstructure” as linked in a sort of naturally selective dialectic - but I’m not in academia so have less direct feel for how it works.
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