[FRIAM] Score one for Wokeism!

[Marcus Daniels]

I'm talking about personality.   I think the current polarization is a projection of SDO / non-SDO onto Republican / Democrat.   To what extent must injustice exist, or even be encouraged, to create a stable social system?

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I can't believe that. The act of flattening is a natural part of the dynamics. What you (and Marcus) are equating is the act of flattening with a system-wide tendency to flatten *everything*. By saying the flattening is good, I'm not saying everything should always be flattened. That's a false equivalence that I doubt Arendt would support.

And this also applies to endogenous objective functions. Facile flattening encourages new peaks ... encourages a bumpy, complex landscape. Totalitarianism and authoritarianism are exogenous functions.

On 3/5/21 10:01 AM, jon zingale wrote:
> Hannah Arendt (wink to Merle) argues that the flattening (both 
> externally and
> internally) is perhaps the salient feature of totalitarianism. I find 
> myself often looking for the original reference and unfortunately not finding it.


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