It’s worth pointing out that grey in the post refers to
a fact that not even the worst ideologues know how to spin as “supporting” their side”.
I’m not sure what good grey rolls do in the context of this post (especially given the proviso that “there is a ‘Blue’ and a ‘Green’ position on almost every contemporary issue of political or cultural importance”).
But grey rolls are, of course, important: Grey facts and grey issues are uncorrupted by the Great War, and hence are that much more accessible/tractable. The more grey facts there are, the better rationalists we can be.
With respect to your comment, the presence of Grey, Yellow, Orange and Purple Teams would actually help things substantially—if I report facts from the six teams equally, it’s harder to label me as a partisan. (And it’s harder for any team to enforce partisanship.) Even if Blue-supporting facts truly are taboo (Green is unlikely to have more than one archnemesis), that’s much less limiting when only a sixth of facts are Blue. It’s a nice advantage of multipolar politics.
What seems to happen in practice is that everything non-Green gets lumped together as Blue. Even if the other people do not see themselves as being on one faction.
And then you have the additional complications of out-group vs far-group.
It’s worth pointing out that grey in the post refers to
I’m not sure what good grey rolls do in the context of this post (especially given the proviso that “there is a ‘Blue’ and a ‘Green’ position on almost every contemporary issue of political or cultural importance”).
But grey rolls are, of course, important: Grey facts and grey issues are uncorrupted by the Great War, and hence are that much more accessible/tractable. The more grey facts there are, the better rationalists we can be.
With respect to your comment, the presence of Grey, Yellow, Orange and Purple Teams would actually help things substantially—if I report facts from the six teams equally, it’s harder to label me as a partisan. (And it’s harder for any team to enforce partisanship.) Even if Blue-supporting facts truly are taboo (Green is unlikely to have more than one archnemesis), that’s much less limiting when only a sixth of facts are Blue. It’s a nice advantage of multipolar politics.
What seems to happen in practice is that everything non-Green gets lumped together as Blue. Even if the other people do not see themselves as being on one faction.
And then you have the additional complications of out-group vs far-group.