Read a truly remarkable book,
Civilization and its Enemies: the Next Stage of History by Lee Harris.
Harris is the most prominent, and most insightful, of a particular class of commentator that the interaction of Sept 11 2001 with the rise of the blogosphere has created - the (formerly) non-political writer-commentator.
Orson Scott Card,
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*nods vigourously* I can't count how many times I've encountered this on all sides of the political spectrum - Totskyites, the Sydney Mardi Gras, Born-Agains...
social dynamics ultimately determine a lot, perhaps even all, of what we think of as politics.
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The great thing about this analysis is it is, as you say, about social dynamics in a general sense, not restricted to particular ideologies, or even particular social milieus.
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