>> Large numbers of people lack stable identities and preferences. They are easily influenced by whatever novel state or circumstance they find themselves in. T

>> Large numbers of people lack stable identities and preferences. They are easily influenced by whatever novel state or circumstance they find themselves in. They will follow the rebels one day and demand the gendarmes open fire on the aforementioned rebels the day after. Others systematically falsify their preferences. Publishing an essay like this in response to the unrest that resulted from the murder of George Floyd is highly objectionable. A tone of impartiality has been affected to hide the blatant prejudice of its author. I don’t trigger easy, but even I can tell this kind of content has no place on Hacker News. Edit: Another selection: >> The present saturation of electronic media (television, radio, and online communications) also enables rapid and often whiplash-inducing swings of opinion among both elite tastemakers and plugged-in information consumers. These sudden swings, in which everyone is demanded to suddenly accommodate themselves to their group’s new consensus narrative, occur too frequently for anyone to hope to adapt to them. After each swing, the group makes a totalizing demand that the individual publicly submit to the new motto and signal support for it. This article is utterly unworthy of this platform. In case anyone is unsure, Black Lives Matter.