My “foreign policy” with Trumpies is: shun the MAGA-hat-wearing cultural Trumpies who I rarely run into in Blue Land anyway, and don’t-ask-don’t-tell detente with known Flight 93 crypto-Trumpies who live Blue lives.
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Default foreign policy with most other ideologies, which I’m mostly 100% comfortable with, is to simply avoid politics and talk about where to get the best tacos, or how to solve whatever shared problem we may be dealing with, at a pragmatic level.
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Like I've said before, I don't think it is amazing, though it is striking. Human insistence that we all think the same way is something we don't (as far as I know) see in other animals -- the chimp that uses moss rather than leaves to soak up water is not shunned. 1/
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So why human insistence on conformity? I THINK it goes hand in hand with the ability to use language. Language only works if we all think the same way, and enforce that commonality. And once that mental apparatus is ensconced, it spreads... //
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These may be low trust environments due in part to the ideology and the psychology of the ppl it attracts
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If there is a shared value relevant to a mutual project, I generally don't care whether beliefs are shared except to the extent that they pose a liability to the shared project. Shared beliefs are much less useful than shared practice, shared values, or shared sensibilities.
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My most fruitful partnerships are with shared sensibilities with semi overlapping or adjacent values
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