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I’m trying to pinpoint this phenomenon where incompetent radicals end up resembling each other despite carrying diametrically opposing banners — socialists & anarchists, for example
Highly competent radicals end up not looking like radicals at all. “He’s a good kid, but he has some very funny ideas.” Too often people who make bets on a radical worldview & win big end up getting reduced to “smart, eccentric” while “savvy” gets pinned on smooth talkers
Sometimes I imagine the thinkers I follow as cult leaders, flowy garb & all. I think about the tenets of my cults, the extant priesthood & the heathens, why people join, what they want & whether they tend to get it. This is a surprisingly useful exercise for noticing bullshit
Hypothesis: they are “developmentally traditional people living in a (post)modern world” (Kegan’s phrase) who don’t understand how large-scale social systems work.
We evolved in small mutually-supportive communities, which *feels* right, so trying to revert to that is the natural tendency for political thinking if you don’t understand complex systems. https://meaningness.com/fluidity-desiderata#choicelessness …pic.twitter.com/zexn6BZ0tN
The same reason the term "partisan" can be accurately applied across ideologies, there are more banners than tactics.
Read ‘the true believer’ by Eric Hoffer. he lived through 1930s Germany and saw nazis and communists recruiting from the same pool of people. The radicalism comes first - the political direction is an afterthought.
Horseshoe theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory …
It's also the idea the political compass is based on. There also the fact that some ideologies are rather closer to one another than we've been led to believe: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html …
It's cuz they drink at the same bars
"Incompetent" = acts primarily on intuition, which leads back to same ingroup/outgroup-based action regardless of original cause.
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