very tired and demoralized at work so heres something ive been thinking about an interesting thing that may have happened in the 20th century is that deliberately or not people got really good at wrecking norms
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Trying to defend fraying "liberal" norms against concentrated social attacks from the left is probably the only remaining exercise for conservatives, as defined in this framework.
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My hunch is all of this is especially unpleasant for many of my older readers I imagine a disproportionate number of you, like me, are repulsed by ideological norms enforced by social . . . well, force, and so probably didn't think much of conservatives in the old days
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So, you know, explicitly countercultural forces had a certain appeal And it's reaaaaally uncomfortable watching the counterculture rapidly shifting gears away from undermining old dumb norms to undermining them indiscriminately while inventing new ones at a ferocious pace. end
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I don’t know you, I’m 51 and conservative. I think this spot on and one of the best condensed diagnosis I have seen. All the way to “dumb” norms. The conservative insight is rooted in honor what is given, whether or not you understand it.
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