No one necessarily knows it's important too though, I guess
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Like the custom evolved cos it helped ppl, no one knows how or why or that it is so important, they just act like it is
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And then we can look into why. See what is at the root of it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism
Yes that would be ideal but he says not often possible
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism
Then we just have to have some epistemic humility & say 'we don't know yet.' That's not difficult & doesn't take anything away.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism
I guess that is a very noncommittal attitude which might not be enough to preserve the 'ancient wisdom'
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism
Then the ancient wisdom will go. If it can't be supported on its own terms & has to be included as knowledge, it probably should.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism
That might be related to modernist overreach and trying to remake society on rationalist principles and making a mess of it
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism
Yes, probably. We address this here:https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/amp/ …
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Yes it's all related. Peterson could be interpreted as just making a critique of modernism rather than being anti-modernist
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OK, but lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
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Peterson is more like a post-post-modernist than a modernist.
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