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I'm mostly a reply guy, but it frustrates me that some of the best top level posts get zero engagement.
Maybe people don't have much to say other than officially discouraged low effort agreement.
What's left to say?
We had a really good post on the legacy of BLM two weeks ago. I've been meaning to write a similar post for a year or so now, but what would the point be? Most of the people I'd want to argue with about it aren't here any more, and of the few who remain, I suspect that they would not engage with it much. Further, I suspect that the better I wrote it, the lower the chance of their engagement in the future, as I doubt they would find the conversation a net-positive experience.
It's been ten years since 2014, which is the consensus date I've seen for when the current culture war kicked into high gear. Ten years ago, all of us on either side had lots of questions and few answers. It seems to me that we now have lots of answers and few questions, at least across the divide. There's just not that much left to say, and for me at least conversations tend to result in a marked sense of diminishment, as though one can feel what common ground remains fading away. We discourage low-effort agreement because that just makes the process happen faster, but it still happens slowly, and that's just as fatal.
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