Since your blog posts are almost entirely (partisan) political in nature, you should know that traditional political discussion is discouraged here in most threads, except the monthly politics thread. The idea that political discussion is often broken is generally called Politics is the Mindkiller, and there is a whole sequence of old posts on the topic.
I’m actually quite happy with the “Politics is the Mindkiller” meme and wish it all the success in the world. Those blogs represent myself in a world in which LW was unknown.
On the other hand, the underlying concern isn’t so much (partisanly) political, but rather about trying to take on the epistemology (or anti-epistemology) of propagandists and liars. As it happens, movement conservatives seem to be the greatest modern day masters of the art and are most willing to us it, whereas once upon a time, it was Marxist-Leninists.
Robert McChesney, possibly still an unrepentant Marxist, has admirably stated that the consummation most devoutly to be wished is a sane media environment, and one powerful at exposing what’s really happening, and well attended to by the populace (heavily paraphrasing a half-remembered statement), and then he claims he’d be content to see people work out whatever politics they work out.
Since your blog posts are almost entirely (partisan) political in nature, you should know that traditional political discussion is discouraged here in most threads, except the monthly politics thread. The idea that political discussion is often broken is generally called Politics is the Mindkiller, and there is a whole sequence of old posts on the topic.
I’m actually quite happy with the “Politics is the Mindkiller” meme and wish it all the success in the world. Those blogs represent myself in a world in which LW was unknown.
On the other hand, the underlying concern isn’t so much (partisanly) political, but rather about trying to take on the epistemology (or anti-epistemology) of propagandists and liars. As it happens, movement conservatives seem to be the greatest modern day masters of the art and are most willing to us it, whereas once upon a time, it was Marxist-Leninists.
Robert McChesney, possibly still an unrepentant Marxist, has admirably stated that the consummation most devoutly to be wished is a sane media environment, and one powerful at exposing what’s really happening, and well attended to by the populace (heavily paraphrasing a half-remembered statement), and then he claims he’d be content to see people work out whatever politics they work out.