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    1. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      This leads to really weird things like "not stealing" being denigrated because it's associated with a hated outgroup, or demanding their specific set of signifiers overrule any concrete social behavior they may or may not engage in.

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    2. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      The more people care about signifiers and simple allegiance markers over concrete traits and actions, the more the fragile combinations of traits we consider to be nationally or religiously valuable fail and fall apart as a "culture" and the harder it becomes to rely on society.

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    3. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      I think having a good set of concrete behaviors (what's considered a culture, or at least part of it) is actually enormously valuable in a non-linear way. And I think it's not infinitely robust: culture can be broken.

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    4. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      Culture can also be built up locally (either physically or in online social groups) and spread and grow, but this seems to be a slow process. I think a decent number of people have an inkling of how this happens, both for good and bad, but destruction is always easier.

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    5. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      A lot of what the left and before it religious reformers (particularly in America but all over) have been doing over the last couple centuries is deliberately destroying concrete parts of culture that they see as harmful.

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    6. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      Religious reformers, due to having a basis in the bible or whatever local leader's teachings, tend to replace cultural structures they destroy with specific, functional institutions. To some extent the left does this too, but the machinery that's fun is the woodchipper.

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    7. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      Related to the recent Palladium article: Academia has been at the mercy of the left for decades and has become stuck in a sort of loop where any positive action you take is at the mercy of the next generation of young sophists, who want personal power, which gained destructively.

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    8. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      this kind of went off on a giant tangent because the thing I wanted to talk about at the start of the thread was Immigration. But I think universities are a good example of the fragility of culture and the costs of cultural destruction. Your constituents are your future kings

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    9. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      We have a trillion and a half dollar pile of debt constructed on the lie that a university degree is the same thing now as it was 60 years ago. This is the kind of thing that comes out of treating culture as a sort of tag or signifier, rather than as made up out of actions.

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    10. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 9 Aug 2019

      I know I haven't demonstrated it but if you believe that 1. Culture is valuable 2. Culture is changeable 3. Culture is created by people. then it seems obvious to me that it's absolutely critical to decide what kind and how many immigrants to allow into a given space.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 9 Aug 2019
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