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1/ Every ideology solves its genesis-era motivating social problems relatively quickly. Then gains slow until it comes up against its impossible problems. That’s when things get interesting.
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2/ These are existential threat problems that require giving up a core assumption to solve. One whose removal would be fatal to the ideology. So you have to choose: solve the problem or save the ideology?
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3/ What are core Imposdible Problem/Unbreakable Assumption (IP/UA) pairs for the following major ideologies: conservatism, socialism, progressivism, classical liberalism, libertarianism? I have guesses for all but curious what people come up with.
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Like a climbing rope anchored midway up, ideologies as thought devices help elevate thinking to a certain shared level. But go past that anchor, and now you’re the one dragging the rope.