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There seems to be a current within liberalism that’s basically faddish reactionary moral panic against the illiberal threat du jour. Mostly reactions against the left, and in egregious cases against the right.
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It’s funny to watch them rather studiously engage in things they feel they “ought” to enjoy like producing/consuming arts or science. They may even have some talent and painfully cultivated taste for it. But a deep joylessness radiates from how they do it.
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Everything actually liberal they do, they seem to do with one eye on peers, esteem, and social acceptance. It feels like conservatives larping a playful, childish element in liberalism that they can see but not quite access.
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