apophenia comments on The best 15 words - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ishaan 04 October 2013 11:58:44AM *  0 points [-]

Hehe...here's a controversial one.

The process and the consequences of fighting oppressive heirarchies are worse the heirarchies themselves - my take on Mencius Moldbug.

I don't really agree. But I've tried pretty hard to wrap my head around his ideology (he's incredibly long winded) and this is what I got from it. If I had to add a second sentence, it would be this:

"Progressive culture seduces intellectual elites and redirects their power to destructive, unreflective, self-righteous reformation."

..."This reformation inevitably strengthens the Progressive ideology and institutions, resulting in an invisible feedback cycle of power".

If there are any actual formalists reading this thread, I'd like to see one of them condense the main point into a supershort string like this, because it's really long...

Comment author: apophenia 06 October 2013 09:36:44PM *  1 point [-]

Adding a note because I said "quotes don't belong in this thread" elsewhere. However, this quote belongs in this thread, because

I've tried pretty hard to wrap my head around his ideology (he's incredibly long winded) and this is what I got from it

Comment author: Ishaan 06 October 2013 09:59:58PM *  2 points [-]

Oh no, I'm sorry. That wasn't a direct quote, but a paraphrase of a set of long essays. I should not have formatted it like a quote.

I've edited the original comment to better reflect this.