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Parsed from outside, this piece could be the mirror image of its criticisms, which is what makes it extra interesting. It's like the myth of the Tower of Babel,
by motohagiography 6y ago
Parsed from outside, this piece could be the mirror image of its criticisms, which is what makes it extra interesting. It's like the myth of the Tower of Babel, where there was a divine event that caused people to be unable to understand each other, and could no longer speak the same language.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel)
Our language itself has a virus in it that is spreading through minds and causing shared meaning to decohere. That's really the level of disconnect there is with about 80m Americans on either side of it.
- clairity 6y agoand what about the 170m other americans besides the partisans you're counting? unless you're a politician, it makes little (rational) sense to join a party (yes, it affords voting in primaries in some places, but that's little consolation, since the primary candidates are whittled down by party insiders in the first place). voters should largely be independents, but identity and signaling are such strong attractors to humans.