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Telltale signs: Confusing intensity of real emotion for hysteria Frequent calls for “calm civil discourse” and “reason” Mistaking good grammar for goodtakes Prioritizing norm following over effectiveness Confusing “articulate” for “correct”
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Repeatedly I’m saddened by the sight of people I otherwise like, who are kind, thoughtful etc in their narrow domains, turn into unguided missiles uncritically doing the bidding of assholes because they are just too lazy to acquire a little sentiment literacy.
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I actually don’t mind virtue signaling by conservatives, libertarians, or classical liberals. I don’t really expect better from then, since they are defined by their holy cow virtues and institutions, and the behavior is kinda natural for them. Harmonizes with their institutions.
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Progressive virtue signaling though, grates in an unpleasant way. I’m not sure why. Perhaps because I expect more from them. Ironically a virtue signal is an aliveness anti-signal to me. If you’re virtue signaling you’re not thinking and I generally expect prohressives to think.
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This may sound weird, but I don’t expect actual thinking from the rest because their value lies is faithfully reproducing old arguments, that were once progressive in their own time. I expect high-quality reproduction. Classic greatest hits from Aristotle to Hayek.
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Hm, so if there’s a chain of different types of people claiming “the right answer was found at this time in history and we just have to be true to it”, I don’t see any reason why that chain can’t include people who ascribe that truth to a left-of-center position.
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Political compass idea: weird/normal, left/right. On Twitter I see mostly fights between Weird Right and Normal Left, with occasional comments by Weird Left (that’s you) complaining about being left out. Normal Right seems rare.
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Weird/Normal sounds fairly close to libertarian/authoritarian on the original compass? I think authoritarian is usually normal for a large faction. Libertarian is not always weird though.
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“Weird” here kinda means libertarian *personally*, but definitely not in terms of ideological commitment. Right-nationalists are Weird Right in that they’re edgy and transgressive in their manner, but are not libertarians in their politics.
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