James Lindsay: The monkey is out of the box and it HATES liberalism
Decoding the Gurus
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The National Liberal Club in the Gladstone Library
I was interested in where the hell is that gilded national liberal club and looked into the history a bit. At various times in the history the club had been denounced for housing revolutionary radicals. I think this binary mannequin worldview it's much easier to get people to join your cause if you present the world as being like that but it usually doesn't injustice to the way the world actually is. It's too simplistic to present ideologies as being simply static throughout all of time like things change, there's many divisions within groups and so on. The complexity of of the world is not good for rhetoric and and politics.
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