What follows is a lightly edited excerpt from a white paper I wrote in 2018 for the web service Before the Ban. This service allowed users to make their identities portable across social media networks (i.e., take your followers with you). The excerpt focuses on the end of “dignity culture,” or what I refer to in this book as “bourgeois values.” This excerpt is presented as a window into how we arrived at a place where “live and let live” is no longer culturally supported.
"As with all games, the direct approach to winning is to outcompete the opposition. The indirect way is to bribe the refs or have the rules changed to favor you or your team." Do you think the left has played to this strategy because they been largely ineffective at out-competing opponents otherwise?
Breakup! Addendum 1: Reputational Contagion
"As with all games, the direct approach to winning is to outcompete the opposition. The indirect way is to bribe the refs or have the rules changed to favor you or your team." Do you think the left has played to this strategy because they been largely ineffective at out-competing opponents otherwise?