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If you want to see a real world attempt at an overton window shift look no further than the actions of useful idiot [1] Kathy Griffin and her severed head controversy. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/kath...
That is such an obscure reference out of all the examples reality has provided in the past few years. Why did you pick this one specifically
Warning: article contains no opportunities, just a list of conformities you can probably already guess. For all the hand wringing about virtue signaling, it seems like there are more redundant declarations of iconoclasty than anything else. This is literally the only genre less interesting than a well-known consensus opinion.
You seem to have completely missed the main point. Your ideological bias is showing here: "He's saying virtue signaling is bad. I can stop reading now." > Instead, I’d like to argue that the market, at least important parts of it, may have become notably less efficient due to changes to the information landscape. That's the point. The narrower the window of acceptable discourse, the more opportunity there is in looki…
The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.
I don't believe in it as a concrete, measureable thing; I do believe in it as a signal for disposition over time.
Warning: article contains no opportunities, just a list of conformities you can probably already guess. For all the hand wringing about virtue signaling, it seems like there are more redundant declarations of iconoclasty than anything else. This is literally the only genre less interesting than a well-known consensus opinion.
You seem to have completely missed the main point. Your ideological bias is showing here: "He's saying virtue signaling is bad. I can stop reading now." > Instead, I’d like to argue that the market, at least important parts of it, may have become notably less efficient due to changes to the information landscape. That's the point. The narrower the window of acceptable discourse, the more opportunity there is in looki…
The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.
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You seem to have completely missed the main point. Your ideological bias is showing here: "He's saying virtue signaling is bad. I can stop reading now." > Instead, I’d like to argue that the market, at least important parts of it, may have become notably less efficient due to changes to the information landscape. That's the point. The narrower the window of acceptable discourse, the more opportunity there is in looki…
And those who enforce the orthodoxy and end up being wrong look ignorant or foolish (at best) or liars and propagandists (at worst).
There is very little penalty to being wrong.
If the orthodox position was what you took, then you have a lot of company in your wrongness. Everyone else will sympathize, because they were wrong, too.
The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.
Also worth mentioning that the window doesn't have a set direction in the short term. It can move back and forth, expand, and shrink fairly arbitrarily. It also largely depends on the spectrum parameters specified. I don't believe in it as a concrete, measureable thing; I do believe in it as a signal for disposition over time.
It’s one reason the old tend to be conservative. They were born at a fixed slice of the Overton window, which moved left, carrying them right.
The term is named after American policy analyst Joseph Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences. According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.
The window is bifurcating. The political left and right have moved so far apart that "middle ground" ideas appeal to very few and the extremes have more viability.
What seems to be new now, is that Group B has taken to espousing Group A's caricature as a way of proving their group identity. "Group A says we eat babies. I eat more babies than anyone else, proving my Group B bonafides!" If you want to stand out in the primaries, you can't be a competent, coalition-building centrist. You gotta eat more babies than the next guy.
Current political system reinforces extremism. I'm of the camp that believes we urgently need incremental reforms like Ranked Choice Voting and open primaries. It doesn't solve everything, but it's the reform we can do that gives us the most mileage today.