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2020-12-29 Home Front: Politix
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Tell only lies...
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[City Journal] The late Joseph P. Overton of the Mackinac Center stated that an idea must fall within a certain range of acceptability to be politically viable. The Overton Window, as this concept has come to be known, describes the range of publicly palatable ideas at a given time, and it applies not only to politicians but to the general public as well.
Recently, however, the rules have changed. Imagine that you’re throwing darts at a dartboard. You intend to hit certain sections and avoid others. You throw a bunch of darts and manage to hit your targets. Now, suppose that some other people come along and shift the rules of the game, changing which sections earn and lose points. In fact, they specifically make sure that your score has changed so that you lose points. Turns out that, under the new rules, you’re a bad dart player.
The Overton Window has become the Overton dartboard. Every day, people throw darts at a board—each tweet, post, and public statement is aimed at hitting a mark. And each new moral fashion offers the opportunity to change their scores.
In addition to considering whether what we say now might violate current fashion, we must anticipate whether the rules of the game will change again soon and that what we say today might get used against us later. Further, we must consider whether what we said in the past might be used against us now. 
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Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-29 00:00||
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