culture war in right wing direction towards being more racist and more pro slavery, at beginning there were Virginian
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plantation owners who were black or native american for ex, culture war isnt necessarily good or even automatically good
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not following your point. History is overdetermined always. There's economic, culture, psychological threads. Change happens.
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im saying culture war can happen in racist or bad directions and has in the past
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for ex if we learned to 3d print meat and animal rights ppl made animal non 3d printing meat illegal everyone would learn
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past was just a bunch of evil animal abusers and we were just unfathomalby evil and only reason we dont eat meat is because of
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100s of years of brave animal rights activism, when really it was just tech change mostly
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you're arguing very basic tech determinism vs social determinism you realize?
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see this for my synthesis that I think reflects how the chicken-egg evolution actually workshttp://breakingsmart.com/en/season-1/the-principle-of-generative-pluralism/ …
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tech determinism and social determinism are standard ways of talking about these things... there's Wikipedia entries on them
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this was my level-up.. the cost is that pluralism is ideologically inefficient and makes progress messier but more robust
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count ideologies/religions significantly represented in median metro over last century. I'd estimate 3x increase in pluralism
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