'Owning' your opponents is empty and boring after a while
I noticed that many people seem to have checked out of the political discourse in the past two years or so. This has been happening especially in the more extreme parts of both the left and the right. What were once popular online hangouts are now virtually dead. Anecdotally, I've heard that many people who used to be passionate leftists or Trumpists just a few years ago seem to have stopped talking about politics altogether. I guess this just shows how extremist, tribalist, 'own' your enemy type politics gets very tired after a while. This is especially true when life isn't very great in general for a lot of people, which is what has been the case in recent years. Especially in tough times like this, only a positive politics will get people hopeful again. The kind of negative politics that peaked around 2020 or so deserves to be in the dustbin of history, and I hope it stays there for good.
Doing sociology and philosophy in real time by looking at developments in contemporary Western politics and culture, from a Moral Libertarian perspective. My mission is to stop the authoritarian 'populist' right and the cultural-systemist left from destroying the West.
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