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Right Is The New Left - Slate Star Codex (2014)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
'...if it’s true, and it spreads beyond a couple of little subcultures, it means my worst fears are misplaced. The future isn’t a foot stamping on the face of a a college debate team forever. It’s people – or at least some people – rolling their eyes at those people and making fake vomiting noises. And then going too far, until other people have to roll their eyes at those people. And so on. Instead of a death spiral we get a pendulum, swinging back and forth.'
(Don't want to archive too many culture war relics in here, and fyi not posted as an endorsement of ssc or any of the nu rationalists.)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
'...if it’s true, and it spreads beyond a couple of little subcultures, it means my worst fears are misplaced. The future isn’t a foot stamping on the face of a a college debate team forever. It’s people – or at least some people – rolling their eyes at those people and making fake vomiting noises. And then going too far, until other people have to roll their eyes at those people. And so on. Instead of a death spiral we get a pendulum, swinging back and forth.'
(Don't want to archive too many culture war relics in here, and fyi not posted as an endorsement of ssc or any of the nu rationalists.)