[PLUG-TALK] Web search engines focus of right-wing conspiracy theorists

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, Rich Shepard wrote:

> There are other dimension to the commonly understood left/right, 
> liberal vs conservative line: authoritarianism vs libertarianism and 
> extremeism vs moderation <https://www.politicalcompass.org/test>.

Interesting. Thanks for the link. The results chart me as a centrist 
with mildly left-libertarian leanings, which feels close to correct.

One thing the test does not examine is a person's views on 
socio-political (as opposed to, say, spiritual or religious) 
epistemology: how does a citizen come to know something? That is 
something different in our era. From "larger inauguration crowd" to 
sharpied weather maps to torn-up official documents, a distinct 
political culture has sprung up centered on troll epistemology. This 
is the new thing, it seems to me.

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Paul Heinlein
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