I think this is a crucial observation to understanding this whole mess.
Not everyone lives in a “heliocentric world”, where they’re just a small part of a bigger system, everyone is just multiple shades of different, and average/normal is statistical fiction.
To a lot of folks, their vantage point is: “people like me are normal and it’s everyone else that is on the deep left or right.”
Meanwhile they’re ready to metaphorically murder Copernicus because it’s too painful to admit that these political epicycles they’ve mapped out are masking the truth.
A Marine who spouts right wing talking points… definitely not a very political person.
No but see any position i hold is neutral.
I think this is a crucial observation to understanding this whole mess.
Not everyone lives in a “heliocentric world”, where they’re just a small part of a bigger system, everyone is just multiple shades of different, and average/normal is statistical fiction.
To a lot of folks, their vantage point is: “people like me are normal and it’s everyone else that is on the deep left or right.”
Meanwhile they’re ready to metaphorically murder Copernicus because it’s too painful to admit that these political epicycles they’ve mapped out are masking the truth.
They get real deep into the solipsism. It’s terrifying, because you can’t get them out. The person is unrecoverable. It’s like death, or a ghost.