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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Replying to @PereGrimmer @Aelkus
Reminds me. Laclau-Mouffe post-struct Gramsci, Schmitt-lite politics of agonism struck me a decade or more ago as the organic ideology of the academe, with appeal to the boardroom and media too - a collegial ideology for the class fractions of our postmodern polises.
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Replying to @paul_hundred @Aelkus
My model of academic ideologies = the ideologies that assist people in winning academic political battles (re who gets more cash, more grad students, etc.) will tend to prevail, all else equal.
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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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