David Smith on Nostr: This may be obvious, idk, but it took me a remarkably long time to realize that the ...
This may be obvious, idk, but it took me a remarkably long time to realize that the entire concept of "centrism" and "moderates” is an illusion brought about by mapping a complex multidimensional space onto a 1 dimensional line.
"radical centrist" is not only conceptually coherent, but extremely common.
I guess this is what "neoliberal" buys us as a term: a way to describe centrist extremism without buying into the "it's in the center" fallacy.
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