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Gurwinder Bhogal — Certainty is the Death of Thought (EP.155)
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The Purity Spiral: A Game of Briarmanship
Members of political tribes inevitably begin competing with their fellows to be the most ideologically pure. The constant one-upmanship toward moral superiority causes the whole group to gradually become more extreme, as in Maoist China and Twitter echo chambers. "It basically just lifts everybody up towards more and more authoritarianism," he says.
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