Re:Snowden: Why I Decided Not To Delete My Old Internet Posts
by dTal on Saturday September 21, 2019 @05:30PM
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I don't think it's even a particularly large shift. Both "personas" demonstrate a large degree of in-group loyalty and a desire to hold "traitors" accountable, to the American state and the American people respectively. It's not hard to see how a realization that the state was "betraying" the people could have provoked his change in perception of "in-group".
Why? Can't a person who is naturally prone to fervent dedication change from one ideology to another? I mean, for reference, look at a billion examples of religious converts, or for perhaps a better analogy to Snowden, look at /r/atheism.