Summary: creepy traditionalism is intelligent 22-year-olds acting and talking like 70-year-olds in ruts when you’d expect some mix of rebellion and super-earnest politics + messy behaviors. It is creepy because it suggests premature pattern-locking as an anxiety coping mechanism.
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Counter theory: their Boomer parents went hard away from tradition. Boomers never embraced institution building or norm upholding. They went directly from 70s counter culture to 80s me generation. Gen Z "traditionalism" is a radical reaction to their parents' neglect of tradition
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And this Boomer neglect of traditionalism produced an extremely precarious world: looming climate disaster, decline of democracies, breakdown of capitalism's populist promise. Under precariousness people look for stability. Plus these problems may need anti-invidualist solutions.
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