Atlas/Social Axis/Cultural Centrist
§ Social Band 05 of 09
Dead centre

Cultural Centrist

Both sides are mostly right, except when they're loud.

Pace of change
Their own
Unit of analysis
Personal experience
Primary enemy
Extremism
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§ 01
The Stance

What this band is actually saying.

Neither reliably progressive nor traditional — picks up positions from either camp based on personal experience rather than ideology. Often doesn't see culture as politics at all.

Cultural centrists are where most people actually live. They rolled their eyes at the culture war years ago, quietly updated their language to be kinder, still go to church at Christmas, think kids today are maybe on their phones too much but basically fine, and mostly want politicians to stop yelling about pronouns and fix the roads. They are not undecided — they are multi-decided.

§ 02 · Tenets

What the shared conviction sounds like.

01 · TENET
If it doesn't affect your neighbour, do what you like
02 · TENET
Most cultural fights are downstream of class ones
03 · TENET
Common sense isn't a slur
04 · TENET
Don't judge people by the worst version of their tribe
05 · TENET
Manners, honesty, competence
§ 03 · Temperature

A rough pulse.

adherence
Very low
coalition
Largest silent group
compromise
Default
media Salience
Low
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