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Chris Samp's avatar

Keep at it! I recently decided to be more discursive in a 40-member “serious” subgroup of my 250-member “unserious” cozy web hangout. (Us who wanted to be unserious, or serious for that matter, about serious topics were requested to take our seriousness elsewhere.) Most of my word salads get little to no response, but at far flung in-person gathering it gets back to me that people are reading and thinking.

Also, as I have been bunny holing into history, it seems that having a clear right side / wrong side is the exception more than the rule, despite an established dominant narrative placing the in-group on the right side. Obvious examples are rugged western expansion via manifest destiny being a mass displacement of indigenous; and the British leadership in the late Industrial Revolution being more a function of their plunder of India than gentleman tinkerers breaking through.

Of course this shattering of their foundational We Are On The Right Side sense of group-self is what got the cultural conservatives in such a tiff to begin with.

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John Neil's avatar

don’t subscribe to the atlantic, can we get a copy of the full article ?

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