“Neil and Joni, if your side wins—and Spotify bends the knee to your demands—it will mark peak woke and the beginning of your end. In defeat, Joe will just go elsewhere and everyone with a genuinely liberal bone in their body will follow. Most importantly, our present “Eat Me Last” public posture—from which you benefit mightily—will crumble. Enough people will see clearly the threat you pose to open-inquiry and they will gird their loins, say “enough!” and start pushing back at scale.
1) The Left seems to want to excommunicate everyone - which is causing many of the excommunicated to look for a new political home. That does not, somehow, strike me as a winning political formula, but what do I know?
2) Consensus is good for maintaining political power - it is lousy at solving scientific problems. No major scientific advancement ever came out of the 98 percent of experts who all agree with one another. It's almost always the outlier who solves the tough problems: Einstein, Curie, Salk, Hawking, etc., all propelled major advancements in our understanding of the universe, medicine, etc., precisely because they defied conventional wisdom. This late fixation on not defying "consensus" is a recipe for stagnation.
My favorite part of the Weinstein thing is when the kid starts yelling at him that "You need to stop demanding that people use logic and reason, and white forms of knowledge". It's wokeness distilled into 1 sentence
I think I can point to the origination of this mentality: 2009 and the expansion of the definition of a "hate crime". That opened the floodgates to a purely subjective, undefined type of crime: a thought crime. I always thought it was quite illogical to say the, for example, murder is actually two crimes: killing someone and hating someone. It always seemed to me that most crimes, almost by nature, have an inherent basis of hate. I knew where that law would take us, and I was more correct than even I feared in my worst projection.
Brilliant!
Two thoughts:
1) The Left seems to want to excommunicate everyone - which is causing many of the excommunicated to look for a new political home. That does not, somehow, strike me as a winning political formula, but what do I know?
2) Consensus is good for maintaining political power - it is lousy at solving scientific problems. No major scientific advancement ever came out of the 98 percent of experts who all agree with one another. It's almost always the outlier who solves the tough problems: Einstein, Curie, Salk, Hawking, etc., all propelled major advancements in our understanding of the universe, medicine, etc., precisely because they defied conventional wisdom. This late fixation on not defying "consensus" is a recipe for stagnation.
My favorite part of the Weinstein thing is when the kid starts yelling at him that "You need to stop demanding that people use logic and reason, and white forms of knowledge". It's wokeness distilled into 1 sentence
I think I can point to the origination of this mentality: 2009 and the expansion of the definition of a "hate crime". That opened the floodgates to a purely subjective, undefined type of crime: a thought crime. I always thought it was quite illogical to say the, for example, murder is actually two crimes: killing someone and hating someone. It always seemed to me that most crimes, almost by nature, have an inherent basis of hate. I knew where that law would take us, and I was more correct than even I feared in my worst projection.
You make a good point about liberals, who happen to be white and male. They are the collateral damage of the left’s narrative.
Join The Resistance, comrade: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-join-the-resistance-tm