I like to call it the "ratcheting narrative" wherein the idea is that it doesn't happen by "magic" all by itself, but by an actor making incremental steps to achieve a larger goal. One has no agency, the other has agency inherent in the idea. This makes it more difficult to hand-wave it away as "just some x thing" by know-nothings.
PotatoWhisperer 1 points 3.2 years ago
I like to call it the "ratcheting narrative" wherein the idea is that it doesn't happen by "magic" all by itself, but by an actor making incremental steps to achieve a larger goal. One has no agency, the other has agency inherent in the idea. This makes it more difficult to hand-wave it away as "just some x thing" by know-nothings.