it's fascinating w (3) bc ppl coming out of (1) (fuckload of people that you &i know!) often 'forget' that (1) is where they're coming from. so they don't say some synthesis thing, they say 'spirituality is good actually'. but we could just be like... buying crystals.
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and yeah yeah chad just buys crystals because they work haha, ok great, good energy, but also this is how transmission of intellectual traditions fails. the next generation (construed whichever way) doesn't 'get the joke'
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so you the post-nerd spiritualists teach their kids spirituality and then the kid is like 'spirituality sucks have you heard of science you old fucking hippie' this, fractally, everywhere, i think
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@selentelechia ok we need to think about this really hard for live five minutes. house meeting in ten3 replies 0 retweets 19 likes -
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historical take u might appreciate eigen: what's wrong w America is that American ideology was a freedom-maxxing 'vibe' come up w/ by British aristocrats who didn't pass on 'the joke'. sic semper tyrannis, but, not like THAT, oh God, holy fuck WATreudoinghttps://twitter.com/michaelcurzi/status/1382065738362597380?s=20 …
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Replying to @michaelcurzi @sirsfurther and
i wonder how much of this is a problem of saeculum. some stuff maybe is difficult to pass on, things related to character formation that are not possible to pass on in every environment, without direct experience
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eg my grandpa was an infantryman in the bulge and had a love affair in the shattered ruins of Berlin we talk, we get along very well, but he was shaped by things I will never experience
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questions of 1) whether dharma transmission is possible 2) whether dharma transmission is desirable can the ways in which your grandpa was shaped by events outside our experience be passed on to you? if it is, should we value that?
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i think we should value it if its good and not value it if its bad :D
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