Great post, East Hunter! Really like the investigation you've done here. The way ideas spread and the way they're accepted by the (retarded) public mind is an endlessly interesting phenomenon. From a non-fiction perspective I think you would likely appreciate this post: https://www.unz.com/isteve/who-drove-the-great-awokening-the-news-media-or-academia/
Thanks! Yes I know Rozado's work and as you can see I even cite it. In his paper Rozado uses Granger analysis to show that use in liberal media preceded uses in other works so the causation is plausibly that papers like the NYT started pushing these topics and they ignited everything else. Vivek Ramaswamy, who was a presidential candidate this year, wrote a book way back called Woke Inc. where he claims this was to deflect attention from Occupy Wall Street which was seen as threat to corporations. My use of regression discontinuity was basically an alternative to Rozado's Granger method where instead of lags between time series I use a single time point as pseudo-experiment to establish causality.
At the same time, Sailer thinks films do not influence so much the Mainstream: in a recent post i cannot found, he notices there were plenty of liberal films in the Eighties, it was the pubblic that chose Top Gun - and still recruiting numbers did not rise significantly.
Great post, East Hunter! Really like the investigation you've done here. The way ideas spread and the way they're accepted by the (retarded) public mind is an endlessly interesting phenomenon. From a non-fiction perspective I think you would likely appreciate this post: https://www.unz.com/isteve/who-drove-the-great-awokening-the-news-media-or-academia/
Thanks! Yes I know Rozado's work and as you can see I even cite it. In his paper Rozado uses Granger analysis to show that use in liberal media preceded uses in other works so the causation is plausibly that papers like the NYT started pushing these topics and they ignited everything else. Vivek Ramaswamy, who was a presidential candidate this year, wrote a book way back called Woke Inc. where he claims this was to deflect attention from Occupy Wall Street which was seen as threat to corporations. My use of regression discontinuity was basically an alternative to Rozado's Granger method where instead of lags between time series I use a single time point as pseudo-experiment to establish causality.
At the same time, Sailer thinks films do not influence so much the Mainstream: in a recent post i cannot found, he notices there were plenty of liberal films in the Eighties, it was the pubblic that chose Top Gun - and still recruiting numbers did not rise significantly.