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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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
It's connected to the paradox of paleo-reaction: how can you praise elitism and caste society? Seems like a contradiction
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
Wanting a true ἄριστοι (where none exists) implies a demand we put a h i g h e r value on excellence
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
But the nature of caste society (in the loosest sense: hierarchy + intergenerational status) is to d i s m i s s excellence
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
it seems to me that trades/crafts allowed for individual excellence to be recognized + rewarded without breaking caste
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
also, military promotions + clerical feeder system (grammar school, university) offered some 'upward mobility' imho
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Replying to @Peter_OTool
right, talent was probably farmed, cultivated and rewarded more carefully than today; but no pretense of equal chances for all
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I'm mildly anti-episcopal but you're not wrong to highlight a shot at a bishopric as part of how it worked. (Law was also big)
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