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Tuesday, October 20. 2015

Virtue Signalling


Somewhat related to the post below, AVI is thinking about how much of politics is about virtue signalling.


I suspect that he overestimates its importance. In politics, there are many factors: likability, charisma, vote-buying, partisan loyalty, and so forth. Virtue itself has never been a major factor in electoral politics, or in any form of governance in history.


However, I would not dispute AVI's several posts over the years about the importance of tribal and affinity signalling in social relations. (Two Ls in signalling? Who knew?)

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:27 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I think he's talking about political discourse by non-politicians.
#1 James the lesser (Link) on 2015-10-20 21:24 (Reply)
Both. I should have made distinctions but it was already running long. I was indeed primarily talking about the discourse among non-pols.

There will be a followup.
#1.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-10-20 22:13 (Reply)
I guess I misunderstood.
#1.1.1 bd on 2015-10-21 06:48 (Reply)

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