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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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.
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Yeah, what I didn't include was the standard Burkean answer that attempts to move blindly in a new direction always end in disaster.
We stick to established norms because a) they work, b) have good things about them or why would they have lasted for so long, and c) we are dumber than we know or think.