One month ago I wrote a piece titled The Typological Temptation that focused on the human tendency to classify in a sloppy fashion to throw a negative light on those who you perceive as your ideological enemies. To see the nuance in those you disagree with on point x can be difficult sometimes, and it is easy (conventional) to infer a, b, c… from point x. It is easy because one assumes that they share the same axioms or hold anti-axioms, when in fact the sum totality of the other typology might be more orthogonal than oppositional[1].
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