@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic That's an incredibly insightful take. Never thought of it that way before, but he's right.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic I would say this is too simplistic. When I consider my parents who got old and then they were confronted with say "THE INTERNET", they basically ignored it for 20 years. Then my mother told herself for 5 years that she is too stupid for it and now did some first steps in using WhatsApp.

And this is how conservatism plays out even to the point that "the internet" is never touched at all to stay at this example.

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Conversely, it is a pathology of liberalism to use memes like this to suggest that nothing ever actually changes, which is anti-evolutionary despite having some psychology. 😇

@AlisonCreekside i am mostly unreasonably amused by the name "Komm süsser Tod Howard" 🤣.

also capital has no interests, the state's law serves the state, and copyright serves to control the flow of information. initially it wasn't even the authors but the printers. it was a privilege for printers to copy certain works (hence the name), after the centralized mode of censorship became unviable.

@AlisonCreekside Wilhoit conservatism:

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism

@AlisonCreekside same teenagers perhaps?