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Has the observation that moral fashions are invisible held up well? I feel like a preponderance of my Twitter feed is commentary on moral fashions — wokeness, t
by setgree 5y ago
Has the observation that moral fashions are invisible held up well? I feel like a preponderance of my Twitter feed is commentary on moral fashions — wokeness, the drive towards cancellation and deplatforming, the pernicious effects of Trumpism on our norms of discourse — or responses to that commentary.
Of course you could just push it back a level and say that the fashions underpinning that commentary are invisible. But that feels a little bit like Sagan’s “ there’s a dragon in my garage” parable: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage
- _bfhp 5y agoI think the idea is that they're invisible in the sense that nobody announces them to the general public. Moral challenges to the status quo used to be communicated explicitly by heads of reform movements or revolutionary struggles. You had anti-slavery leaders, anti-Satanist leaders, feminist leaders, AIDS epidemic leaders and so on. Now the moral changes are spread online memetically and are implicitly adopted by people along the tried-and-true liberal-vs-conservative lines (usually with a minimal level of understanding), and then power structures start to implement them as rules to look good to what they perceive is their important audience.