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No doubt there's some of that. Perspective is another other thing. Once you start to see how the world works, and how complicated things are, you're a lot les
by jollybean 6y ago
No doubt there's some of that.
Perspective is another other thing.
Once you start to see how the world works, and how complicated things are, you're a lot less likely to fire off about some specific issue.
Radicalism is the posture of those who want to externalize all the side effects of their utopianism, and when you're older it gets harder to not see second-order effects for what they are.
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- emteycz 6y agoRadicalism can also be a reaction to systems that claim to be perfect but unsurprisingly fail, on the other hand.
- jollybean 6y agoYes of course, but those systems I think most people don't believe are perfect. Weirdly, it may take a kind of 'irrational populism' to nudge the needle a few points to just get 'basic change' which is a real paradox.
- emteycz 6y agoThat doesn't matter, most people don't bump into the imperfections, but some inevitably do, and you can't fault those for getting angry, especially if there was a possibility for another option if the "perfect" system didn't stand in the way.