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Because older generations tend to be more conservative than younger generations, it looks like people get more conservative with age.

This is, thankfully, untrue.

People get more progressive with age.

It's just that previous generations get a little left behind. The jump between generations is bigger than the progress that happens within people, giving the illusion that older people become more conservative.

Some good news for once. 😊

brilliant.org/lesson/the-overt

brilliant.orgThe Overton Paradox | Brilliant

@selzero I remember my mom asking me why I care that other folks get access to health coverage and education. I explained that I don't want to store clerk to sneeze over the produce they are setting up in the supermarket, or that I want the people who'll take care of me when I'm old and sick to actually know what they're doing. She got it.

@jbqueru

I'm an atheist, but karma is real y'all. What good is it to live in a world where I have more and people around me are miserable.

Tom Capuder

@selzero @jbqueru

"karma is real"<<Evidence, please.

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@tomcapuder @jbqueru

Cities that have a high wealth disparity also have a high crime rate. By taking from society to enrich themselves personally, people end up unable to walk down the street, and have to create gated communities.

We live in the world we collectively make.

@selzero @jbqueru

Oh, okay. That's not what "karma" means.

@tomcapuder @jbqueru

It is a kind of karma. We have a collective karma.

@selzero @tomcapuder @jbqueru there are spiritual overtones with the term “karma” I prefer to avoid.

@chris @tomcapuder @jbqueru

Yes but Chris those overtones exist because we look at Eastern Philosophy through our Abriamic Western view, that is individualistic, selfish, and micro, rather than communal and macro.

@chris @tomcapuder @jbqueru

Same. Atheist here. I even get a rash from horoscopes. I'm just saying a karma does not have to imply spirituality 🤷

@GuyDudeman @selzero @jbqueru

If someone claims publicly that karma is real, I'll challenge it.

Maybe you shouldn't tell people how to toot. 'Bye!

@GuyDudeman @tomcapuder @selzero @jbqueru

I know THIS is also a semantic quibble, but I do love the expressiveness of your phrase "semantic stick in the mud". 🙂

@weekend_editor @tomcapuder @selzero @jbqueru

Haha thanks. He blocked me anyway, which I don't think was fair, and only proved further that he's a semantic stick in the mud.