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I think everyone is becoming more Authoritarian. The right will never stop because the survival of their traditions depend on it. The left will never stop beca
by jmoak3 4y ago
I think everyone is becoming more Authoritarian.
The right will never stop because the survival of their traditions depend on it. The left will never stop because they know what's best for us.
The central idea of Liberalism is that societies grow best when their citizens have enough calm space to figure out their own lives. The internet constantly shows us lives we find heretical, and without conscious effort to calm ourselves down and let go, that calm is gone.
I guess we just mob up and go to war now.
EDIT:
In a sense, the internet has crashed hundreds of millions of people into the same village. We're still working out how to live with one another.
In practice it's people screaming for leaders to make sweeping rules to fight against the corrupting influence of whatever force they don't like in their mega-village, taking turns in an escalating battle.
- sieabahlpark 4y ago
- perrylaj 4y agoYou realize that during the time of the Civil war the Republican party was the more progressive party, right? The shift to more conservative ideals started in the early 1900s, shifting further with the Southern Strategy, and then most recently, has shifted even further. The Republican party of today shares little but name with the progressive GOP of the mid 1800s. Trying to claim it is the "side that ended slavery" is a fairly silly statement, as that side no longer exists in the party at all.
- mint2 4y agoSorry but can you explain why people cite the modern day political organization strongly preferred by current neo-nazis and white nationalists as being the same party as the one that ~175 years ended slavery like evolution and change does not exist? It’s bizarre honesty.
- upsidesinclude 4y agoYou should read the comment again and see that it is making that very same statement, but about both parties. It is no more a slander of the right than the left
- ece 4y agoI'm wondering what some signs might be that we are working out how to live with one another, like less sub tweeting or something.
- jmoak3 4y agoI think we're still in the process of realizing we have new neighbors, judging by the rise in culture wars. We've got to peak soon, right? Until then, I could see it getting worse - people from one state marching in another to protest their ways of life for example.
- ece 4y agoCertain events can be thought of as inflection points and peaks. Possibly elections and policies taking hold. The bigger problems require all the more calm and collective action.