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Definitely feel like a lot of my peers are suddenly being weirdly conservative in a way that’s been hard to adjust to

The "we must retvrn to public virtue" stuff on here worries me a lot tbh

I just don't think it's possible to create a social environment which aggressively polices people on "personal integrity" or whatever and have it stop there. I think that will always turn into a stiflingly conservative society where nonconformity is punished, because the mechanism's so easy to abuse

It's a delicate tight rope to walk. The polar opposite is a kind of atomized libertarianism, which is its own conservativeness. I think that people are still trying to figure out how to have a society with a communitarian outlook which also allows individual variety and diversity to blossom.

I think it's going to look like a kind of radical acceptance and forgiveness process personally, but I admit I'm not fully awake either.