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False-equivalence bias btw is the best test of conservative vs liberal. If you think history is 100% existing cycles and secular trends...
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...you can construct high-symmetry political philosophies (you symmetrize secular trends with afterlife theories or long cycles, >400 yrs)..
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...the essence of liberalism is leaving 1% prob for surprises to transform world in ways that the 99% cycles+secular trends can't predict
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...that 1% might seem like a tiny diff between conservatives and progressives, but it makes the latter open rather than closed, cognitively
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..."things can happen which we truly did not anticipate at all, and they can be good, and we can change to accommodate them" = progressive
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..both liberals, conservatives hate looking stupid by losing to other *humans* in status games. But latter also hate all *other* stupidizers
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