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Saturday, January 23, 2016
Inter-subjective consensus.
The general consensus... No, that's not right. General consensus isn't really what I mean. I think I heard a good, legitimate, pedigreed term of this at some point, but I've forgotten it. You see, I have a YouTube addiction. I'm a fairly functional addict. As in; you wouldn't know it if you met me. But after a certain amount of conversation you might start to wonder. So, years ago, watching YouTube (and back in the early days of YouTube, no less)I came across a pretty interesting character. As far as I know there was no irony in any of his posts. He had a bunch of different names over time, and for all I know he's still active and I've just lost track of his channel. But when I was watching him, I think he was called The Confederal Socialist. I think! But I do remember he was an anti-statist. Meaning he believed that any approach to governance the produce a state to govern the people was unacceptable. That's the kind of thing that makes me love YouTube. I never really figured out what his overall plan for a perfect government, which is on me because I knew he had one. It was just much more fun to watch his videos on conspiracy theories and social criticism. During one of his critical videos he used a phrase I believe he made up: "The inter-subjective consensus." It was a phrase he used to mean something like what's being expressed in a phrase like; "the normative... of" or "it's in the zeitgeist." But he used it in a more pinpoint way. HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE: "It is the current inter-subjective consensus that blackface is an unacceptable mode of expression." (FTR, I'm not attempting to make a value judgement ether way with this statement, it's just an example). So I like the phrase inter-subjective consensus. One other way to describe it is; It's and ideological notion that is prevalent among people on both the right and the left. One would be considered on the fringe for not being a part of the inter-subjective consensus. So, Just saying I'm gonna use the phrase, when needed, from now on. Thanks Confederal Socialist!
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