Today I argued with a buncha libs on Twitter, which is a complete waste of time, in the sense that it doesn't change any minds. I do it because I wanna understand the 'mechanisms' of their reasoning, or something.
Today I realized that, to most people, progress means improving what already is.
It means building on top of everything we've 'accomplished' so far, and racing towards a better future by constantly improving the status quo: Capitalism and state are inventions that changed the world, now the task is to improve them. Like we do with cars and computers. If you wanna change the system, go ahead, invent a better one and prove that it works. Otherwise we won't switch to your thing.
My own ideals and ideas are mostly defined by opposition to what is. I'm all about tearing down systems of control, borders, barriers, norms, standards, mind-prisons. This of course doesn't sit well with the 'additive progress' mindset. Tearing down stuff, to most people, is the same as losing progress. It's like giving up on something 'good' and starting from scratch. A voluntary 'game over', basically.
El_Sabate wrote
I've noticed the same thing about liberals. The loss-aversion mechanism seems to kick in strongly for a lot of them.