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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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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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It’s almost like... urban environments force its denizens into a different zone of the Voice/Exit trade-off frontier. Urban environments have greater carrying capacity for diversity, but at the cost of very authoritarian enforcement of its coherence mechanisms.
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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.