What is the "Successor Ideology"?
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Is the Successor Ideology the New Dispensation That Controls Our Political Intellectual Life?
The successor ideology implies that the successor will in fact win and succeed by definition if it succeeds onto what came before that means that it's going to triumph. I've always said that cancel culture sort of represents an as yet unconsemitable to power right like what they ultimately seek is law reform. What they ultimately sought is the kind of policing of thought that the Title IX regime within universities ended up moving into. There are a lot of people who actually have a commitment to racial equality and so on who are pushing against it. But I do think that the counter reaction will come precisely because I don't think a pure instantiation of a success ideology is workable.
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