As I have aged, and not necessarily gracefully, I've gotten far more liberal in my politics. I attribute this to the fact I want the world I leave to be better than the world I've lived in. That's it.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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I attribute my gradual progression towards fanatic, militant socialist to the decaying state of our union and the corrupt nature of capitalism in general.
I've gotten far more liberal as well. OTOH, with the benefit of life experience, I can see why conservatives are objecting to various things and why they're ticked off. Doesn't mean I agree, but I still get it.
They’re trying to invent a new name for a phenomenon that’s already well-known in statistics: Simpson’s paradox.
/u/[email protected] I am pleasantly surprised that Simpson is the name of a mathematician and not some pop-science based on Homer & Bart.
I liked this, but I feel like it is just one possible explanation for the common observation that people feel more conservative as they grow older. And it may seem confirmed when society is growing more liberal. But what if this changes? After all there is no objective reason that I know of why societies will have to grow ever more liberal. When conservatism is on the rise, this may become reversed. What then? Older people will appear ever more radically liberal I guess? Hmmm, it is late here and I am too tired to think this through.
Also why is this in technology and not politics? Although, come to think of it, I am glad it is, because politics is so filled to the brim with US politics that I unsubscribed.
There is an objective reason why societies grow more liberal, though. Namely, conservative ideologies function off of exclusions while liberal ideologies typically function off of inclusion. As conservatives move to the next group to alienate, the previous group becomes accepted by society and the diversity of that group increases. Any population whose ideology requires the exclusion of subgroups will always shrink as those subgroups are removed.
Really cool to see.