>I won’t tolerate consensus-building behavior in any of the spaces I directly control.
>there are certain courtesy norms expected of everyone
This is a good strategy. There's a cyclical pattern that inevitably happens in any online political space (left as well as right), and I think it relates to the issue of generational knowledge transf…
>I won’t tolerate consensus-building behavior in any of the spaces I directly control.
>there are certain courtesy norms expected of everyone
This is a good strategy. There's a cyclical pattern that inevitably happens in any online political space (left as well as right), and I think it relates to the issue of generational knowledge transfer and 5-10 year gaps that you've been discussing re: the Zoomer Question. A high-openness discussion group comes up with an interesting new idea; group members with an ideological bent start defining it as a formalism; a younger cohort, with less life experience, adopts the formalism and takes it up as an identity marker. (This happened to "neoreaction" way back when; over on the rival team's side, something like this happened to gender theory.) Maintaining a high quality of discussion means consciously trying to disrupt this cycle.
>I won’t tolerate consensus-building behavior in any of the spaces I directly control.
>there are certain courtesy norms expected of everyone
This is a good strategy. There's a cyclical pattern that inevitably happens in any online political space (left as well as right), and I think it relates to the issue of generational knowledge transfer and 5-10 year gaps that you've been discussing re: the Zoomer Question. A high-openness discussion group comes up with an interesting new idea; group members with an ideological bent start defining it as a formalism; a younger cohort, with less life experience, adopts the formalism and takes it up as an identity marker. (This happened to "neoreaction" way back when; over on the rival team's side, something like this happened to gender theory.) Maintaining a high quality of discussion means consciously trying to disrupt this cycle.