Re:The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok (2019)
by ineedasername on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:31PM
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Re pendulums: Yes, my own personal reading of the past 30 years of increasing partisanship is exactly that: each time it swings a little further. (Absent a short reprieve after 9/11. I thinks it's telling that a few swings of the pendulum more and the current disaster has not brought us together in any sort of way)
The trouble is, because of the way pendulums work, the harder you push it in one direction, the harder it swings back the other way.
The level of polarization in the US right now is dangerous and cancel culture is playing with fire in a room full of gunpowder.
Cf. alien machinery: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/07/25/how-the-west-was-won/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/