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Ah yes, the opposite of "totalitarian" is "no questioning how society works at any level other than the political parties". Makes sense, the totalitarians are
by freshhawk 6y ago
Ah yes, the opposite of "totalitarian" is "no questioning how society works at any level other than the political parties".
Makes sense, the totalitarians are always lax about having rules about what you can talk about. It was so much better when there was just "how things are done" and talk that was "unamerican", so much less political.
- rayiner 6y ago> about. It was so much better when there was just "how things are done" and talk that was "unamerican", so much less political. We managed to get a lot of stuff done that way.
- freshhawk 6y agoDefinitely! And now a lot of the children of the people it was done too are getting all "political".
- notahacker 6y agoI'm not sure that justifying certain areas of debate or complaint being off limits to normies because "things get done" is an anti-totalitarian stance...
- philwelch 6y agoDo you seriously think the present climate is more welcoming to this sort of "questioning"?
- freshhawk 6y agoYes, you can tell because more of this questioning is happening in the present climate.
- philwelch 6y agoAs long as you’re asking the right questions and accepting the right answers, maybe. But if you question the dominant narrative you get cancelled.
- freshhawk 6y agoAnd by cancelled you mean people who previously couldn't/didn't critcize you now criticize you? Like they start questioning your place in society after they questioned your beliefs/values and you re-affirmed them? Sounds terrible, sounds like the dominant narrative is going to change during a time of economic uncertainty, massive structural failures and the exposure of that same dominant narrative to actual investigation and critique. Can't have dominant narratives getting disrupted. Scary.
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