I think you're applying more thought than this merits.
A system of social organization based on identifying a class who never has to admit they're wrong (think about this for a minute; who is displaying virtue when they admit error? who is surprising when they admit error? who is presumed to be in error? who is told what they've done wrong?) is resilient until destroyed by external change.
There's nothing else there. The whole point to the "right" is to never have to admit to being wrong. What about, the thing that's generating the fear of error, varies, but the core demand is that no one can ever insist they admit they're wrong. General prosperity requires high taxes; money is not a thing; cities exist to provide ease of connection to a diversity of skills. But if you're concerned for not being wrong, you build the social power to move blame. So long as you can move blame, well. There you go. You can be wrong, and someone else suffers for it. (I mean, for pity's sake, look at Galen Weston.)
I can't see any way to get this resolved in time to get an alternative food supply and a non-carbon economy in place before agriculture fails. I suspect the increasing stridency of politics has to do with this awareness starting to creep in to the general expectations.
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Date: 2018-04-20 01:36 am (UTC)A system of social organization based on identifying a class who never has to admit they're wrong (think about this for a minute; who is displaying virtue when they admit error? who is surprising when they admit error? who is presumed to be in error? who is told what they've done wrong?) is resilient until destroyed by external change.
There's nothing else there. The whole point to the "right" is to never have to admit to being wrong. What about, the thing that's generating the fear of error, varies, but the core demand is that no one can ever insist they admit they're wrong. General prosperity requires high taxes; money is not a thing; cities exist to provide ease of connection to a diversity of skills. But if you're concerned for not being wrong, you build the social power to move blame. So long as you can move blame, well. There you go. You can be wrong, and someone else suffers for it. (I mean, for pity's sake, look at Galen Weston.)
I can't see any way to get this resolved in time to get an alternative food supply and a non-carbon economy in place before agriculture fails. I suspect the increasing stridency of politics has to do with this awareness starting to creep in to the general expectations.