This the last protest tweet of a small triptych. But these folks are rebelling for our current system against grandstanding environmentalists.
These all follow Arnold Kling’s thy:
Progressives fight oppression. Libertarians fight coercion.
Conservatives fight loss from change.
These all follow Arnold Kling’s thy:
Progressives fight oppression. Libertarians fight coercion.
Conservatives fight loss from change.
The reason I bring this up is the following. What if we looked at ourselves as being in *all* three protests:
Yes the world is oppressively rigged.
Yes I don’t want my life at the whim of someone else’s pen and gun.
Yes I want to get to work w/o being shamed by grandstanders.
Yes the world is oppressively rigged.
Yes I don’t want my life at the whim of someone else’s pen and gun.
Yes I want to get to work w/o being shamed by grandstanders.
I think that’s where I am; experiencing all of Arnold Kling’s three triggers simultaneously. And quite frankly, I think most of us are feeling the same. It’s too much change without enough good change. It’s too much humiliating coercion without enough coordinated self expression.
And here is the actual protest of the protesters without the meme framing:
