I agree to a point. I think some polarization and factionalism is necessary because what had been the mainstream right has become completely unmoored from reality. There's very little compromise or discussion that can happen with that—we need to conduct a full-scale societal autopsy. We can dismiss these viewpoints but still examine why people came to these viewpoints.
For example, the mainstream left has forgotten its class roots. At the centrist end, you have professional managerial neoliberalism, which greenwashes and pinkwashes and racewashes fundamentally antihuman policies, and farther left, certain tendencies that accept a somewhat radical framing but reduce it to atomization of identity. At the extreme end, these are the folks who freak out at me for using the word "crazy" but won't fundamentally organize to make work more humane to neurodivergent and mentally ill people.
I read the Sun too on occasion. I think you need to know your enemy.
Once can blame social media to a point, as structurally it thrives on engagement and conflict and prioritizes short, quippy takes over lengthy discussion, but these tendencies all existed before.
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Date: 2022-01-19 12:35 pm (UTC)For example, the mainstream left has forgotten its class roots. At the centrist end, you have professional managerial neoliberalism, which greenwashes and pinkwashes and racewashes fundamentally antihuman policies, and farther left, certain tendencies that accept a somewhat radical framing but reduce it to atomization of identity. At the extreme end, these are the folks who freak out at me for using the word "crazy" but won't fundamentally organize to make work more humane to neurodivergent and mentally ill people.
I read the Sun too on occasion. I think you need to know your enemy.
Once can blame social media to a point, as structurally it thrives on engagement and conflict and prioritizes short, quippy takes over lengthy discussion, but these tendencies all existed before.