at Current Rate of discourse by mid-2021 the entirety of blue Tribe will be arranging hysterectomies and testictomies while the entirety of Red tribe will have become pregnant people are adjusting preferences with remarkable alacrity
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This is why Covid is so anxiety inducing. Each generation does a breadth first search for how to live well. Boomers discovered house and kids. Millennials found Experiences (Thailand! Travel! Foodie!). We mimic. Covid changed the environment all at once. Nobody to mimic.
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Tradition is eternal. God(just pretend if you are unsure) family, country seemed to be a good heuristic.
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I just want to live in the 50s/60s forever. No idea whether they were really actually good, but my impression is that the Western world figured itself out for a few years
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and all it took was a world war destroying every industrialized country, strong labor unions, massive state spending, free college and the ramping up of a nuclear arms race


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and how do your countrymen behave
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cf. Girard, desire is mimetic
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Joke: Desire is organic Woke: Desire is mimetic Bespoke: Desire is memetic
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Acting as exemplars of virtue or right living is basically the core function of the elite, and their "government". But that social role got captured by the petty bourgeois sometime in 19C and they spend their time trying to manage away their personal moral failings, which lmao
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There was a very excellent article I read once about contemporary arguments against meritocracy and goddamn they were all spot on. Should try to dig it up, pretty sure I found it on r/ssc
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