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Originally Posted by peter12
You can begin an adequate critique here. Liberalis understandably cluster around the mean because that is what liberalism needs to survive. However, the language of radicalized individualism is precisely what has lead to the nihilistic identity politics of today. Liberals want to find their way back to the mean, and radicals want to continue the process of fragmentation.
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This could also be seen not as fragmentation or the desire to continue that process, but as a shift towards a new mean.
It's entirely possible that the range has gotten further on 'one side' of liberalism and been populated aggressively, so much so that the 'finding their way back to the mean' may actually be moving in a different direction than they think they're going. As in, they believe it's important to stick closely to a particular version or interpretation (believing it to be the mean), when the natural course of societal evolution has actually moved the mean, and they're now representing a philosophy that is not in-tune with the realistic average.