True, but the internet has lowered barrier of access to alternative information, so yes Instagram might be captured by the liberal system, but that's not the whole of internet.
I would be extra cautious with this rhetoric that "liberalism" is caused by social media, because some right-wingers might think that we ought to regulate it via government, which actually doesn't help the right, but entrenches the liberal control even deeper.
"Liberalism" was here already in the 90s before the internet went mainstream.
@bronzeagemantis They want to pretend that John Locke is root of all modern evil, but lack any introspection to realize that they might be more liberal than John Locke.
@bronzeagemantis John Locke defended many "crazy" positions such as the institution of slavery, imperialism and racism. Stuff even many self-proclaimed anti-Lockean "reactionaries" wouldn't dare to defend.
Really can’t get over this post. This guy spent years after the October 7 attacks boosting all this third worldist stuff and is now trying to pivot back after calling any of us who warned about this at the time “zioshills”
Zero integrity
This doesn't disprove what he is saying, because it clearly demonstrates that people who were born into Orthodoxy are more liberal than Protestants.
The fact that many people converted to Orthodoxy in the past 3 years just means that it attracted larpers impressed by orthomemes not genuine believers.
@more_amalek "You're just going to prosper." so why is Protestant world the richest part of the world then and the Orthodox world the poorest in the context of Christian world?
These people just say the most random shit without evidence and always get away with it.
But when will the EU ban TV for boomers? The lack of introspection here is telling. Older people are just as much affected by media. The difference is that older generations still obey traditional media.
@artisan_urban @CityBureaucrat it's more like realizing that blaming Locke (or "historicism," or "Calvinism" or "nominalism" etc.) is safe, and which you incur no cost for doing, instead of blaming known more recent names that it's actually a lot more risky to take on
The contrived attempt to reframe contemporary problems as Ruled by historical origin in a text is borrowed from Straussians btw (who themselves distorted it from Strauss). Nominalism thesis was argued eg exsctkh this way recently by Gillespie in The Theological Origins of Modernity. For all their conspirashit on Strauss the new right and paleocons copy every one of the Straussian vices. Which is not surprising as ultimately the new right is revealing itself to be just a dumber more assertive version of the Conservative Movement of the last few decades…with every one of its features and opinions preserved
Dyer’s argument could also be taken in the opposite direction once you accept that the “physical” is separate from essence. A transgender person could simply argue: “I am different in soul—my essence—from what I am in body—the physical.”