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I used to think that all ideas, even potentially harmful ones, should be free to spread so they could be defeated in the "marketplace of ideas."
Me too.
I later learned that was a mistake because the best ideas don't usually win, only the ideas with the most immediate appeal for the audience, no matter how short-sighted or destructive. I'd be like a supermarket expecting vegetables to be its biggest sellers instead of candy, energy drinks, and junk food.
That's a good analogy.
Also, me too. I was the libbest of JS Mill-Keynesian libs and thought that if only we could secure liberal values/rights, we could instigate a welfare state for all and keep it, this time. What a muppet. My 180° shift began when a Marxist friend said, but redtea, how will you convince everyone else to voluntarily pay high taxes to pay for it all?
I learned that no one actually believes this
I used to believe that