But I’m trying to consider honestly what sort of person might be thought of as a “dissident” in the context of somewhere like the contemporary US or UK
A person who says something politically incorrect and gets fired? Or gets in prison if someone decides it was hate speech (more likely to happen in UK).
I think the first of those would be a reasonable analogue for “dissident” when considering Orthodox Progressive Culture as the Power of interest, and possibly the second when considering the government as the Power of interest. In both cases my sense is that the representatives of said Power would see the people in question as enemies (conflict theory) more than as people who are simply making an unfortunate mistake (mistake theory). So these also seem like conspicuous non-examples of Zack’s claim.
I guess it would be better to simply say “governments typically do this” and “dissidents typically do this” rather than encoding it in the language of mistake/conflict that requires additional effort to decode.
I can’t even say whether I think you are right or wrong here, because I am more confused than helped by the abstraction.
A person who says something politically incorrect and gets fired? Or gets in prison if someone decides it was hate speech (more likely to happen in UK).
I think the first of those would be a reasonable analogue for “dissident” when considering Orthodox Progressive Culture as the Power of interest, and possibly the second when considering the government as the Power of interest. In both cases my sense is that the representatives of said Power would see the people in question as enemies (conflict theory) more than as people who are simply making an unfortunate mistake (mistake theory). So these also seem like conspicuous non-examples of Zack’s claim.
I guess it would be better to simply say “governments typically do this” and “dissidents typically do this” rather than encoding it in the language of mistake/conflict that requires additional effort to decode.
I can’t even say whether I think you are right or wrong here, because I am more confused than helped by the abstraction.