Hypothesis: The virtual geography of the vote was exactly the reverse of the physical geography. Digital countryside voted out digital metros. If you did the right kind of social graph viz, this would show clearly. The right forms dense online cities, with low idea distance.
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This is a common pattern in idea spaces btw. One side is what’s known as “high paradigm” (HP) and the other is “low paradigm” (LP).
- STEM is HP, liberal arts is LP
- McKinsey/HBS “positioning school” management theory is HP, “people school” is LP
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You’ll note that red memeplexes tend to have a “scientific” structure where deep entailments follow from a few fundamental laws that are like a caricature of physics laws:
- liberals are evil
- there exists a Q and a deep state
- a ring of child traffickers runs everything
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If qanon were New York City, the freedom tower would be “pedophilia”, Statue of Liberty would be 2nd amendment, etc.
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Nice analogy. However it likely doesn't apply to the massive gains the right made in Miami and RGV. I don't see them feeding off the same source.
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Yep... that was anti-socialist Cuban+Venezuelan immigrant crowd. There’s exceptions at the margins.
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I see your point, but in memetic space things should be measured in units of “coherence”. The Trump revolution was a function of a singular individual driving high coherence.
Urban density in meatspace leads to more diversity in some respects, and more coherence in others.
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I get the impression that these online cities are divided into districts with distinct characteristics. Very different from online patchwork landscape where progressive ppl dwell. I find the first easier to describe, although maybe cause I know less about it.




