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"This is the big #1 reason. Intellectual elites became totally-convinced of their moral clarity, started doing wacky things with apparent impunity, and there was a harsh reaction. If you’re gonna do a political movement, you have to stay humble and man-of-the-people-ish, or else Chris Rufo will come and eat your babies."

Most successful revolutions are led by out of touch vanguards. Including the much vaunted Civil Rights.

"Instead of fighting critical theory—impressively infectious meme that it is—what if we could reform it slightly, reconceive it in a less-insane format, and quit all the fighting?"

This is not a good idea, because it relies on the assumption that a person has understandable interests separate from ideology. This is a mistake. Patriotism is assumed to be bad because a man should never want to risk his life, even though he can benefit from winning this gamble.

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Huh, I am a Euro, and that is not how I learned about this... basically it started with Kant's critique of pure and practical reason, that there is a gap separating how things are and how we perceive them. Then Marx figured that the reason we do not perceive things as they are, are oppressive social stuctures. This had set up Frankfuters but also others like Bordieau and Foucault. The central idea was that when we perceive something as good, as opposed to bad, such as "good taste", it is the viewpoint of the power elites.

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