If I had to propose a model for this here, it’s something like:
Ziz believes in the power of what you might call “Woke Twitter Leftism” as a force that will one day come to completely dominate society and sees her own ideological principles as the natural evolution/convergence point of those ideas. If you’re a Woke Twitter Leftist and you legitimately believe the principles of Woke Twitter Leftism in your soul, you’ll naturally come to embrace her ethical positions over time. She thinks that since “Cthulu swims left” her faction will gradually grow to dominate politically and the actions she takes that would seem to damage her credibility will become credibility boosting in that future. Her callout posts, her protests, the way she expresses disapproval, it’s all clearly strategized to fit into the ideological pattern of twitter wokescolds and tumblr tenderqueers. The people she seems to be carelessly defecting against aren’t the people she thinks will win the culture war and so the fact that she’s damaging her credibility with them is irrelevant.
I think Ziz’s belief in the power of this acausal coalition and the belief that it will actually win the culture war that we’re currently embroiled in is the result of her rejecting necessity and refusing a gate. You can pretty clearly see where in her ideological theory this error is sitting and the canards she has to adopt to make it work. She thinks that most people are evil, but she still believes her tiny coalition of good-aligned people can shift the timeline which makes no sense. In order to support that, she has to adopt the completely unfounded belief that only good-aligned people can cooperate or use game theory and that nongood people will defect on each other too often to defeat her alliance.
These are all JD’s words, this is JD’s take on Ziz, not mine. This is an interesting post because there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with anything it says, it just frames it as a negative despite the fact that really, if twitter leftists are the scariest thing in the world to you, what does that really say about you as a person, hmmm? Don’t you know cancer has no future? Ziz is right and we are going to win. :)
I don’t think Woke Twitter Leftism has a problem with telling lies to hurt people who deserve to be hurt in their view and that there’s huge reputational risk for that kind of lies in that crowd.
To the extend that this model is accurate, I don’t think it suggests that we should expect her to always tell the truth.
She thinks that since “Cthulu swims left” her faction will gradually grow to dominate politically and the actions she takes that would seem to damage her credibility will become credibility boosting in that future. Her callout posts, her protests, the way she expresses disapproval, it’s all clearly strategized to fit into the ideological pattern of twitter wokescolds and tumblr tenderqueers.
That still doesn’t explain the Sith robes and fanfic villian name.
the completely unfounded belief that only good-aligned people can cooperate or use game theory and that nongood people will defect on each other too often to defeat her alliance.
Can you elaborate on why you think this belief is completely unfounded? It seems to me that there are clear asymmetries in coordination capacities of good vs nongood. For example, being more open to the idea of a “Good Person” in power than a “Bad Person” seems like common sense. Similarly, groups of good people are intrinsically value-aligned while teams of bad people are not (each has a distinct selfish motivation) -- and I think value-alignedness increases effectiveness.
These are all JD’s words, this is JD’s take on Ziz, not mine. This is an interesting post because there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with anything it says, it just frames it as a negative despite the fact that really, if twitter leftists are the scariest thing in the world to you, what does that really say about you as a person, hmmm? Don’t you know cancer has no future? Ziz is right and we are going to win. :)
I don’t think Woke Twitter Leftism has a problem with telling lies to hurt people who deserve to be hurt in their view and that there’s huge reputational risk for that kind of lies in that crowd.
To the extend that this model is accurate, I don’t think it suggests that we should expect her to always tell the truth.
That still doesn’t explain the Sith robes and fanfic villian name.
Can you elaborate on why you think this belief is completely unfounded? It seems to me that there are clear asymmetries in coordination capacities of good vs nongood. For example, being more open to the idea of a “Good Person” in power than a “Bad Person” seems like common sense. Similarly, groups of good people are intrinsically value-aligned while teams of bad people are not (each has a distinct selfish motivation) -- and I think value-alignedness increases effectiveness.