system11 wrote:Climate sceptics always make me chuckle.
Well, at least "sceptic", is an improvement upon "denier". I'll take it.
With regards to argument against any and all science based supports of the Anthropogenic model, I am of course, at your disposal.
Weak Boson wrote:Anyway, the phenomenon of minority preferences becoming the norm for the group is interesting, but it doesn't follow that a minority can exert influence merely by virtue of its intransigence.
On the contrary, it follows that intransigence will dominate a sleeping, dormant culture, quite easily.
Weak Boson wrote: The effect is contingent of the acceptance of the minority by the majority.
The piece was specifically about how this is
not the case, or at the very least a critique on what is considered "acceptance" on a societal level.
Perhaps the author did not stress the importance of "skin in the game", enough to convince you of what is, essentially, a fact.
Consider it like this;
A "majority" is an established group. As such it does not experience "threat" as a group, in the same manner that a "minority" does.
Its individual members, aware of a vast safety buffer of sheer numbers, reach existential homoeostasis.
The "majority", is no longer in touch with, or depends upon its "culture" - the
very thing that secured its viability and success to begin with.
That is to say, strength in numbers, results in weak individuals, which in turn results in a weak group.
So you see where this leads;
A "minority" then, is by its very nature, the reverse of all of the above and when it's vital force, or as the author calls it, "intransigence", pits itself against the decadent majority,
that intransigence cuts like a hot knife though butter.
This is very basic group dynamics.
If still not convinced that the majority can be swayed (even to the extent that it is against their best interest's) a cursory study of the techniques of propaganda may prove illuminating.
Weak Boson wrote: although I must admit I skipped a paragraph or two about ancient history.
Not a criticism but a suggestion;
The author made parts of his case for asymmetric rule, in these histories.
You do yourself a disservice with regards fully grasping his argument, by skipping these components.