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daily reminder

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as someone who presumably spends a lot of time on anonymous image boards, it surprises me you don't seem to really 'get' how vocal minorities can shift overton windows over time merely by existing.

its not exactly a new dynamic either, in other ages it was some times called 'phariseeism'; they are in competition with each other to display superior holiness.

people with insufficiently holy opinions are socially outflanked by holier than thou radicals, and so ideology usually mutates over time to ever greater memetic adaptiveness (usually to the hosts detriment). sometimes you get critical masses of enthusiastic true believers getting in on the fun creating a race to the bottom that sweeps up the whole population, which thankfully doesn't get there too often, because the stalins of the world observe that they might be outflanked by the holier than thou too, and put a stop to holiness competition.

we can only be thankful that our modern Pharisees lack the will or wherewithal to actually form chekas and gestapos to round up the insufficiently holy. never the less, they are still symptomatic of a process that will influence popular discourse that affect everyone at least in part.

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