http://hugoschwyzer.net/2008/07/15/ideological-die-offs/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:04:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2008/07/15/ideological-die-offs/#comment-418485 Claire Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:10:44 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2008/07/15/ideological-die-offs/#comment-418485 Looks like simple confirmation bias, to me. The people listed are all relatively close in age, and were near the end of the survival curve for their age bracket, and there are enough disconfirming examples out there, it's just that your attention hasn't been called to them by their deaths. Looks like simple confirmation bias, to me. The people listed are all relatively close in age, and were near the end of the survival curve for their age bracket, and there are enough disconfirming examples out there, it’s just that your attention hasn’t been called to them by their deaths.

]]> http://hugoschwyzer.net/2008/07/15/ideological-die-offs/#comment-416980 Tom Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:28:22 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2008/07/15/ideological-die-offs/#comment-416980 I can't speak to any sort of "wave" of die-offs in any context. What I often do find interesting, however, is the differing contributions and generations represented in these die-offs, and what a comparison with the present says about the state of any given movement and the influence of various lines of thinking to the present. Look at your lists above: among the feminists we see radical, queer/POC, mainstream 2nd wave, and conservative strains represented among the departed. Among the conservatives you listed, we see post-1964/Reagan era, Southern Old Guard, neo-con, gun rights and evangelical variants represented. I can’t speak to any sort of “wave” of die-offs in any context. What I often do find interesting, however, is the differing contributions and generations represented in these die-offs, and what a comparison with the present says about the state of any given movement and the influence of various lines of thinking to the present. Look at your lists above: among the feminists we see radical, queer/POC, mainstream 2nd wave, and conservative strains represented among the departed. Among the conservatives you listed, we see post-1964/Reagan era, Southern Old Guard, neo-con, gun rights and evangelical variants represented.

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