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He is not wrong. The cumulative effect of small ingroup preferences is segregation, see this little cute simulation https://ncase.me/polygons https://ncase.me/p

He is not wrong. The cumulative effect of small ingroup preferences is segregation, see this little cute simulation https://ncase.me/polygons https://ncase.me/polygons. To enforce desegregation you need to either suspend freedom even for small choices, or reeducate your subjects to exhibit unnaturally large outgroup preference.

josephcsible 5y ago
When the solutions to a problem are either suspending freedom or "re-education", I think you really need to stop and consider what's really the lesser of the evils.
- angelzen 5y ago
  If only there were a country that went full on reeducation. "The Soviet man was to be selfless, learned, healthy, muscular, and enthusiastic in spreading the socialist Revolution. Adherence to Marxism–Leninism, and individual behavior consistent with that philosophy's prescriptions, were among the crucial traits expected of the New Soviet man, which required intellectualism and hard discipline.[6] He was not driven by crude impulses of nature but by conscious self-mastery, a belief that required the rejection of both innate personality and the unconscious, which Soviet psychologists therefore rejected.[7] He treated public property with respect, as if it were his own.[8] He also has lost any nationalist sentiments, being Soviet rather than Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, or any of the many other nationalities found in the USSR.[9] His work required exertion and austerity, to show the new man triumphing over his base instincts.[10] Alexey Stakhanov's spurious[11][12] record-breaking day in mining coal caused him to be set forth as the exemplar of the "new man" and the members of Stakhanovite movements tried to become Stakhanovites.[13]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man

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He is not wrong. The cumulative effect of small ingroup preferences is segregation, see this little cute simulation https://ncase.me/polygons https://ncase.me/p

by angelzen 5y ago

josephcsible 5y ago
When the solutions to a problem are either suspending freedom or "re-education", I think you really need to stop and consider what's really the lesser of the evils.
- angelzen 5y ago
  If only there were a country that went full on reeducation. "The Soviet man was to be selfless, learned, healthy, muscular, and enthusiastic in spreading the socialist Revolution. Adherence to Marxism–Leninism, and individual behavior consistent with that philosophy's prescriptions, were among the crucial traits expected of the New Soviet man, which required intellectualism and hard discipline.[6] He was not driven by crude impulses of nature but by conscious self-mastery, a belief that required the rejection of both innate personality and the unconscious, which Soviet psychologists therefore rejected.[7] He treated public property with respect, as if it were his own.[8] He also has lost any nationalist sentiments, being Soviet rather than Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, or any of the many other nationalities found in the USSR.[9] His work required exertion and austerity, to show the new man triumphing over his base instincts.[10] Alexey Stakhanov's spurious[11][12] record-breaking day in mining coal caused him to be set forth as the exemplar of the "new man" and the members of Stakhanovite movements tried to become Stakhanovites.[13]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man