thomas

The political compass meme should be updated with a utilitarian vs deontologist dimension, because that’s much of what it boils down to these days

I'm so out of the political loop...Everytime I semi go in I walk right out.

I have never seen Joe Rogan or any other typical podcasts... 

Up until recently I've been out of the "real World" mentally https://media.tenor.com/fB-jBCXlCfUAAAAC/simpsons-bart-simpson

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I also try to consume fewer political news (especially relative to, say, 2016-2017), because it’s an exhausting firehose, and much of it is posturing that gets walked back within days (tariffs are a good example).

More importantly, I try to stay “meta” and not get drawn into the endless and debilitating red vs blue tug of war. By that, I mean that I’m more interested in the big Overton window shifts we’re witnessing, but with an almost anthropological curiosity, if that makes sense. I also think that the last thing social media needs is yet another opinion, which is why I rarely share mine.

I can afford to do that because I’m not American and I live far from the US. But what I cannot afford to do is ignore it entirely, because it eventually affects my job and industry as well, even if indirectly

Always has been
But the direction matters too

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Coincidentally I just read about Zizians, a brand of SF rationalist edgelords who took utilitarianism too far and murdered a few people on the premise that it was for the greater good

As often, extremes suck, nuance matters, and social media is where the former shine and the latter goes to die

A whole new political wing to slander.

Fucking Deonts 😒 Rigid bastards.