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The nature of the extremism is volatile; tribes, figures, policies will wax & wane. The insanity is here to stay, because there are fewer & fewer shared truth verification protocols — as the overlap between our worlds recedes, we're losing the ability to have conversations at all
This genuinely isn't about a common enemy or a common object-level goal, which is why everyone else seems to care more about the "infighting" than the IDW itself does. It's about the fact that shared reality is spinning out & since the elites can't reel it in, they're chasing it
If you don't grok why the IDW "picks on" the left so much for a set of mostly self-described leftists, you're not tracking it. It's subtle from this side. It's worth meditating on how strange it is that a piece of voter swag has become an accepted media symbol for "bad person"pic.twitter.com/bQbU6KeHBt
(I'm not asking you to take any particular position on the stupid hats. I'm asking you to notice the visceral reaction you have to a campaign wearable, to ask yourself where that's coming from, and to consider whether or not this seems normal.)
I *will* respond to everyone's partisanisms, but fwiw I'm pretty sure I can't show you how the game works while you're still playing. I will keep trying. Please, please humor me.
All of this also takes place in the shadow of a relatively centralized political structure dating from an era of much tighter narrative gatekeeping. Now as we move out of that era everyone becomes dimly aware that there’s a gun on the table. All it takes is one lunge for it.
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