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We’re not in a state of identity-based politics. We’re battling tribal politics, where people congregate and act in concert with people like themselves.
Marcus Collins • For the Culture
Today, the parties have become proxies for two vast macro-cultures, so seeking out people like you also often means ending up surrounded by people who share your politics.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
politics as an exercise in personal wish fulfillment rather than as a site for collective action.
José Marichal • Trust an algorithm, or trust your neighbor?
The reason the ultra-left run into so many ideological inconsistencies is because they are underdogphiles. They see the underdog through a highly fetishized and sympathetic lens.
Support for the underdog isn’t a bad thing—and in fact, it’s actually highly necessary in many cases—but their fetishization amounts to blanket support, meaning there is no... See more
Support for the underdog isn’t a bad thing—and in fact, it’s actually highly necessary in many cases—but their fetishization amounts to blanket support, meaning there is no... See more
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One Way Forward: The Outsider’s Guide to Fixing the Republic (Kindle Single)
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In fact, “tribalism stripped to its essence” seems to describe all segments of American politics in the Trump era.
Arnold Kling • The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
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I am not right wing or left wing. I am a human being who listens, empathizes, learns, and thinks.
People want to assign labels to each other so they can judge without trying to understanding a person.
Labels lessen our capacity for empathy and free thought.
Lex Fridmanx.com