About a year ago I gave up trying to define “left,” “right,” “liberal,” and “conservative.” The concepts are too nebulous, and people have strong incentives to distort their meanings. There’s no stable “there” there. This has been wonderfully liberating.
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I haven’t yet been drafted into the culture wars... will figure out what to do if/when that happens. In the meantime, I just want to understand things. And the semantic debates have only muddied the waters for me. Waste of mind.
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Good news: You probably won’t be drafted. I find that semantic debates become clear signal if you assume the territory is actually fairly clear and the debates are FUD deployed (largely unconsciously) by people to obscure where they stand, to avoid consequences where they sit.
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