[AnthonyMouse]

> Some might even say it was a necessary evil, that the pendulum swung far, for progress to be made.

The trouble is, because of the way pendulums work, the harder you push it in one direction, the harder it swings back the other way.

The level of polarization in the US right now is dangerous and cancel culture is playing with fire in a room full of gunpowder.

Cf. alien machinery: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/07/25/how-the-west-was-won/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/

[ineedasername]

Re pendulums: Yes, my own personal reading of the past 30 years of increasing partisanship is exactly that: each time it swings a little further. (Absent a short reprieve after 9/11. I thinks it's telling that a few swings of the pendulum more and the current disaster has not brought us together in any sort of way)