Was listening to @M_Millerman speak about Dugin's ideas about the possibility of RETVRNING to tradition, and I think it's the best encapsulation of my feeling about it as well.
Traditionalism proper means going back to older traditions, and trying to recapture them through LARP
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The alternative Dugin proposes is "revolutionary conservatism", the abolishing of time, and the quest to capture the essence of the timeless. He describes RETVRN traditionalism (the LARP faction) as mainly Apollonian but the revival of the timeless as mainly Dionysian.
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I think that distinction adds a lot more dimension. A lot of RETVRN discourse suffers from the dysfunctions of too-much-order - an understandable backlash to too-much-chaos - but that makes it fail the reality test.
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The challenge of our lifetime is to whittle out the timeless - and it is a hard one. The timeless reveals itself only in limited amounts through reason. A little bit more can be gained through trial and error. Another fragment comes from studying history.
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But a big chunk of the iceberg is embedded in the LARP. It's in religious practice, rituals, alignment with natural phenomena, timeless cycles, attunement to the body, etc.
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I do believe that LARPing can help. It's like embodied, implicit knowledge generation. You usually can't think yourself into wisdom, you have to act your way toward it. A lot of what we lost, we lost through an excess of self-consciousness, by overthinking as a default.
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Seems that the only difference between the concept of “LARP” and “practice” is continuity - if you learn from your father what he lived from his, that’s practice; but if you have to re-learn what you’re grandfather never taught your father LARP is a strategy for doing that
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A concrete example: The Catholic religious orders had been largely wiped out by the French Revolution/Napoleonic conquests (+ Jesuits suppressed by the pope).
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Replying to @percy_gryce @cookiekutter84 and
The rebuilders who revived them--Lacordaire for the Dominicans, Guéranger for the Benedictines, and Fortis & Roothaan for Jesuits to some degree--were LARPing in this positive sense. (We need a better term: retrieving or reviving, perhaps?)
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Israel and Hebrew were LARPed into existence
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