Foucaulf
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« on: September 21, 2014, 03:42:00 PM » |
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I guess I now believe very strongly in the following:
- Those who wish to change politics end up targeting two goals: actually devising change or building enough of a reputation to sustain a career on possibly devising change. But it is only right to aim for the former.
- People are not consistent about which groups for whom they want to fight or reduce suffering.
- Putting one's reputation on the line to fight for a cause is the best signal of one's beliefs.
- Those who advocate hardest to replace the market economy are also those who have never lived in a society without it.
Those are, well, rather abstract ideas. I think concretely it has made less opinionated on activism (whatever works will work) and more supportive of universal benefits as a way for groups to choose how to improve their lives.
Does that make me more right-wing? Possibly - but I don't really believe in that claptrap on the "entrepreneurial spirit" either.
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