I'm conflicted to some degree about how we on the right, as rhetorical realists, use T-correlated traits to our advantages.
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(That's to say: you're dumb, you're impulsive, and that's okay! We've made a little niche for you in our polis. We love you!)
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I could dig deep into that, but to bring us back to the analogy: ultimately a meritocracy of the body is worse than "caste"
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Example: women bloom like flowers to get a honeybee. Then they ought to pop out babies; & likely, go plump, then wrinkly
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That's okay. Natural. A man who would rather have his wife barren and gym-toned into her twilight is worse than a pedophile
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People (ideally) need to recognize the value of physical discipline without vanity. Everyone ends up ugly; some always were
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But there's something about a grandmother and grandfather surrounded by their brood that makes decrepitude regal
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It's a question of dignity: the difference between dignity and status. A strictly loyal butler has a dignity Figaro lacks
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We can't unilaterally disarm in our death-struggle vs Cathedral, but I'm uneasy fueling the very vanity that fuels it. (fin)
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The original and proper idea of caste is not strictly hereditary. See: Laws of Manu
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Historically: Indian varna system was always hereditary. Conceptually: no, but hereditary part is what is hard to accept in TCY.
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In my understanding it was not always hereditary though the degeneration to that happened long ago.
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In its ideal form the Four Fold Social Order is a matter of typeology. Ppl classified by ability to be self-directed.
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(a) Are we talking history or vedic cosmology (i.e. going back to 100kya)? (b) ...and you claim varna still earned in which year?
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It is not my claim that it was ever earned. Please read the link I tweeted.
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Temperament is neither purely hereditary nor earned.
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it seems to me that trades/crafts allowed for individual excellence to be recognized + rewarded without breaking caste
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Yes, sort of. Mixed feelings about fetishizing obsolete production techniques, though - seems like grasping at the reflection
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