I suppose that increase in mazes means that if there is external pressure that appears politically fashionable, more people in the positions of relative power are motivated to (appear to) move in the direction of the pressure, whatever it is, because they don’t really care either way. This is how companies become woke, ecological, etc. (At least in appearance, because they will of course Goodhart the shit out of it.)
This sounds like the right mechanism to me.
A different question is, why pressure in the direction of e.g. social justice is stronger than pressure in direction of e.g. Christianity.
I do think “why do some things become politically fashionable?” is an important question. I think the answer to that is basically a whole other subfield just as complicated as the “how do mazes form?” question. But in answer to:
More activists? Better coordination? Strategic capture of important resources, such as media? Or maybe it is something completely different, e.g. social justice warriors pay less attention when their goals are Goodharted?
I think the answer is just “all of them” and “it depends.”
This sounds like the right mechanism to me.
I do think “why do some things become politically fashionable?” is an important question. I think the answer to that is basically a whole other subfield just as complicated as the “how do mazes form?” question. But in answer to:
I think the answer is just “all of them” and “it depends.”