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Re:Experts from a world that no longer exists by foundart on Saturday November 20, 2021 @11:06AM (#29289250)
TIL Overton Window: "The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window A very useful concept.
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Re:Experts from a world that no longer exists by aigo on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:29PM (#29290024)
The window, and the ways political agents try to move it in one direction or another, explains a lot of modern discourse

It intersects with Chomsky's ideas about manufacturing consent quite nicely too

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