Thread by @wesyang

This is an important turn that Charles Krauthammer anticipated in his piece about "Defining Deviancy Up" aei.org/research-produ…

https://twitter.com/scholemtzadak/status/1443576849917833234

One way of thinking about Successor Ideology is as the resulting state ideology when this inversion has been completed: "a radically less disciplinary society of the street; a radically more disciplinary of the workplace, schoolyard, boardroom, and bedroom..."

What matters here is the structure of the overall change, not the particulars. Krauthammer looks bad in his remarks on homosexuality and date rape -- that's the whole point! A whole new moral regime was in the process of being erected and now we are in it!

"complimentary" should be "complementary" -- weird to find copy-editing errors in 29 year old texts

Also, Bloom was writing about the 80's