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Graham Cunningham's avatar

Judging from your summary, the book would seem to be profoundly ignorant (if that's not a contradiction in terms). Whilst, in a narrow sense, the Left/Right polarity does date from political jockeying in post revolutionary France, in a much more profound sense, in the 20th/21st c. West, the Left dreams of political 'Progress', the Right is deeply sceptical of this utopianism. This is a very big - and entirely non-arbitrary philosophical divide. To call it 'tribal' is fatuous.

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Adziu's avatar

The claim is easily contradicted by the correlation between character traits and political position and it's highly heritable.

AI can actually predict political position from facial features with quite an accuracy. I was surprised none of you mentioning that: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79310-1

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