They don’t adopt, they espouse. They talk a lot, they signal with a few purchases (or purchase attributes) but they rarely turn them into embodied lifestyle habits. Actually *adopting* a value in that deep sense is approximately as hard as quitting smoking in the median casehttps://twitter.com/rechelon/status/971487206811422720 …
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Small minorities can be incredibly important to the overall dynamics of a system. Focusing on how most people aren't strongly idealistic misses how the idealists impact and shape the rest.
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Hmm. I don’t know. Most of these minority idealists die in obscurity. People who model highly contagious and imitible behaviorswhile strongly embedded have a much more decisive impact on the evolution of norms. Idealism typically only has an impact when it acquires guns.
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