I like that drawing, and I especially liked one of the responses to his tweet:
"10 years ago i would have called myself progressive cuz i believed in equality and not being an asshole over trivial things
now i consider myself moderate because i believe in equality and not being an asshole over trivial things"
But I'm not sure the drawing tells the whole story. What it leaves out is an actual move in the right towards... well, I'm not sure in what direction it would be. When I see conservatives like DeSantis & Abbot try to punish & restrict private businesses and the flow of goods, I see some kind of movement. Into illiberalism? That's certainly not conservatism. And it has its parallel on the left. Perhaps the drawing would be more realistic to me if it showed the far-left and the far-right moving vertically, downward, rather than horizontally lol. With illiberalism being a line beneath that they are both falling into.
In the end, I mainly agree but I wonder if that's because I'm on the left, so the shift is up-close and personal. I feel it. But when I read David French, I learn that traditional conservatives like him see the same things happening on the right.
"I am not sure how this is possible, as I thought a B.A. generally lets you skip stuff like calculus and I don’t know how far you can get in physics without calculus."
I have no idea what the requirements were at UPenn in 1997, but at my undergrad alma mater, the BA in Physics still required Calculus I, II, and III. For the BS you also had to take Differential Equations and Linear Algebra.
Great video. Just forwarded it to my son who’s a physics major. I love the idea of the Lorenz transformation applied to politics. It does kind of stretch your brain. I also liked the cartoon from Musk. I’m constantly left with the feeling that I’m standing in one place politically while a huge portion of the Democratic Party has gone cuckoo left. I just can’t figure out if it’s really cuckoo or if I’m just old and inflexible. 🤷♀️
That video was so good. I’ve read a good chunk of A Brief History of Time which is incredibly cool but I have a hard time grasping the concepts without the visuals that this video for instance provides.
It is hard to describe how the Republicans have moved to the right in terms of policies because Republicans have not campaigned in terms of policies even since Mitt Romney's campaign. My very unwoke husband was excited at the idea of Romney in the primaries but refused to vote for him in the general because Romney "never said what he would do". But it is easy to see how Republicans and right-wingers have gotten more nihilistic. Threatening election officials and talking about how Republican House members should be purged only for voting to impeach Trump are indicators of this nihilism. It is impossible to describe Liz Cheney as anything but on the right but her views are where the party was 10 years ago.
Yeah, very true. Jonah Goldberg had a good piece later on Friday where he pointed out that, policy aside, the right has a wilder variety of nuts… I probably should have acknowledged QAnon above but it’s truly hard to place them on a one-dimensional axis as left or right- they’re just insane.
I like that drawing, and I especially liked one of the responses to his tweet:
"10 years ago i would have called myself progressive cuz i believed in equality and not being an asshole over trivial things
now i consider myself moderate because i believe in equality and not being an asshole over trivial things"
But I'm not sure the drawing tells the whole story. What it leaves out is an actual move in the right towards... well, I'm not sure in what direction it would be. When I see conservatives like DeSantis & Abbot try to punish & restrict private businesses and the flow of goods, I see some kind of movement. Into illiberalism? That's certainly not conservatism. And it has its parallel on the left. Perhaps the drawing would be more realistic to me if it showed the far-left and the far-right moving vertically, downward, rather than horizontally lol. With illiberalism being a line beneath that they are both falling into.
In the end, I mainly agree but I wonder if that's because I'm on the left, so the shift is up-close and personal. I feel it. But when I read David French, I learn that traditional conservatives like him see the same things happening on the right.
Yeah, discussing this with a conservative colleague at work, I insisted the drawing needed maybe 10-12 more dimensions to it 🤓
For me, a physics professor who routinely teaches about Lorentz transformations, this post came as a pleasent surprise! That video is quite good.
"I am not sure how this is possible, as I thought a B.A. generally lets you skip stuff like calculus and I don’t know how far you can get in physics without calculus."
I have no idea what the requirements were at UPenn in 1997, but at my undergrad alma mater, the BA in Physics still required Calculus I, II, and III. For the BS you also had to take Differential Equations and Linear Algebra.
A science BA at my alma mater didn't much change the course requirements but meant you didn't have to do research (in a professor's lab).
Great video. Just forwarded it to my son who’s a physics major. I love the idea of the Lorenz transformation applied to politics. It does kind of stretch your brain. I also liked the cartoon from Musk. I’m constantly left with the feeling that I’m standing in one place politically while a huge portion of the Democratic Party has gone cuckoo left. I just can’t figure out if it’s really cuckoo or if I’m just old and inflexible. 🤷♀️
That video was so good. I’ve read a good chunk of A Brief History of Time which is incredibly cool but I have a hard time grasping the concepts without the visuals that this video for instance provides.
And I liked the topic of this post a lot.
It is hard to describe how the Republicans have moved to the right in terms of policies because Republicans have not campaigned in terms of policies even since Mitt Romney's campaign. My very unwoke husband was excited at the idea of Romney in the primaries but refused to vote for him in the general because Romney "never said what he would do". But it is easy to see how Republicans and right-wingers have gotten more nihilistic. Threatening election officials and talking about how Republican House members should be purged only for voting to impeach Trump are indicators of this nihilism. It is impossible to describe Liz Cheney as anything but on the right but her views are where the party was 10 years ago.
Yeah, very true. Jonah Goldberg had a good piece later on Friday where he pointed out that, policy aside, the right has a wilder variety of nuts… I probably should have acknowledged QAnon above but it’s truly hard to place them on a one-dimensional axis as left or right- they’re just insane.