[FRIAM] Score one for Wokeism!

[Steve Smith]

Whack-a-Mole vs Frogger?

On 3/5/21 11:06 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> 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.
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> And this also applies to endogenous objective functions. Facile flattening encourages new peaks ... encourages a bumpy, complex landscape. Totalitarianism and authoritarianism are exogenous functions.
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> 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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