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“Political” in the sense of being a generalised disposition attributable to a generalised class of people. These often ''are'' political dispositions, but need not be: “born-again Christians”, “conservatives” (with big or little “c”), socialists, [[bitcoin]] maximalists, Guardianistas, [[snowflake]]s, [[gammon]], libertarians — any kind of group to whom one might attribute a membership by reference to generalized set of beliefs. | “Political” in the sense of being a generalised disposition attributable to a generalised class of people. These often ''are'' political dispositions, but need not be: “born-again Christians”, “conservatives” (with big or little “c”), socialists, [[bitcoin]] maximalists, Guardianistas, [[snowflake]]s, [[gammon]], libertarians — any kind of group to whom one might attribute a membership by reference to generalized set of beliefs. | ||
Of course, the group is a [[narrative]], as is its agenda and its catalogue of values: unless someone has published manifesto, no two individuals in the group will share identical set of beliefs, and it may be that no single individual holds exactly the set of core beliefs ascribed to the group. As with all narratives, it is | Of course, the group is a [[narrative]], as is its agenda and its catalogue of values: unless someone has published manifesto, no two individuals in the group will share identical set of beliefs, and it may be that no single individual holds exactly the set of core beliefs ascribed to the group. Most struggle to hold values internally consistent with their own other views, let alone with random others apparently part of the same in-group. | ||
As with all narratives, it is meant to filter out the [[noise]] of [[diversity]] to help render a meaningful [[signal]]. | |||
The signal is often a phantom. In the same way that, in a group of 1000 people no individual will necessarily conform to the group’s average for height, weight, hand-size, inside seam, waist ''and'' chest measurement: the more dimensions you measure, the less likely that golden mean becomes.<ref>Hence [[A. P. Herbert]]’s magical essay on the [[reasonable man]] in {{casenote|Fardell|Potts}} refers.</ref> | The signal is often a phantom. In the same way that, in a group of 1000 people no individual will necessarily conform to the group’s average for height, weight, hand-size, inside seam, waist ''and'' chest measurement: the more dimensions you measure, the less likely that golden mean becomes.<ref>Hence [[A. P. Herbert]]’s magical essay on the [[reasonable man]] in {{casenote|Fardell|Potts}} refers.</ref> | ||