Discursive conflict doesn’t just involve everyone agreeing on stuff. It also includes:
Widespread narratives that a lot of people will at a minimum, pay lip service to
But also people disagreeing with those, fundamentally
This means that there is still fighting over what a) values are important, b) narratives. These can be won but not completely.
There’s also some positions here and there that are compromises like:
‘copyright is fine, but it shouldn’t keep getting extended just so Disney can hold onto its intellectual property forever.’
It’s not that ‘I have a number of political positions’ - it’s that they exist. The fight over narratives is not entirely over in a lot of areas—it’s just strong, broadly.
And this happens in politics because people still care, and stuff is still going on. At this point, do a lot of people care who invented calculus? I would guess, not a lot.
I was mostly just disagreeing with this:
There isn’t a single, all encompassing consensus.
Discursive conflict doesn’t just involve everyone agreeing on stuff. It also includes:
Widespread narratives that a lot of people will at a minimum, pay lip service to
But also people disagreeing with those, fundamentally
This means that there is still fighting over what a) values are important, b) narratives. These can be won but not completely.
There’s also some positions here and there that are compromises like:
‘copyright is fine, but it shouldn’t keep getting extended just so Disney can hold onto its intellectual property forever.’
It’s not that ‘I have a number of political positions’ - it’s that they exist. The fight over narratives is not entirely over in a lot of areas—it’s just strong, broadly.
And this happens in politics because people still care, and stuff is still going on. At this point, do a lot of people care who invented calculus? I would guess, not a lot.