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@apex_simmaps @FlightAstral @egg_report @kaschuta this type of discussion will always be the parable of the blind men and the elephant. You all know it, and you've had the discussion many times. You are talking about the failure modes of a complex system, trying to pin it on a single root cause

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@apex_simmaps @FlightAstral @egg_report @kaschuta but the fact is that when something the size of the USA fails, it's because a whole lot of things went wrong and kept going wrong, and there is no single point that you can fix

@apex_simmaps @FlightAstral @egg_report @kaschuta Randy is absolutely right about the individual psychology of the wokist, but when they all act in concert they use the same words and the same memes and the same thought patterns, so there is something we can abstract there.

@apex_simmaps @FlightAstral @egg_report @kaschuta Ideology is probably not quite the right word for it, just as "empire" is not quite the right word for (waning) USA global dominance. In a classic ideology, people have actual core tenets that they believe. No one who is "woke" is nearly that principled

@apex_simmaps @FlightAstral @egg_report @kaschuta Does it add something to say that "wokism" is a postmodern ideology for a postmodern "empire" – I don't know, I think that comes down to you. If we define pomo as "skepticism of metanarratives" or maybe "decentering" then.... yes? All words are models and all models are wrong

@apex_simmaps @FlightAstral @egg_report @kaschuta but this glib dismissal of models elides over the fact that some models are *cough* less wrong than others. The picture of the world in your head could not exist if it weren't isomorphic to reality in some way or another

@apex_simmaps @FlightAstral @egg_report @kaschuta But this is a digression. An ideology implies that a crisis of faith might be possible. Ideologies make claims that, while not precisely empirical, can at least be nailed down. But what crisis of faith could ibram kendi possibly have? To ask the question is to answer it

@apex_simmaps @FlightAstral @egg_report @kaschuta This is not because he is a zealot, its' because he is an ethnonarcissist