Tradition abhors a vacuum
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Parkinson’s Law of Greebles: Tradition expands to fill all available room with greebles
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I emigrated from a country that was/is choking on oppressive reverence for tradition to one with a healthy disrespect and contempt for it and then the winds turned and the joke was on me 🙄
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The only trad move I’m unreservedly in favor of is Alexander’s cutting off the Gordian knot. All else is a bullshit fence to be torn down until proven worthy of preservation.
Lindyness is the last defense of the unimaginative
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I think, because I rarely argue with trads beyond mild trolling in passing, some people think I’m actually part of the general assumed consensus in tcot that the trad turn is a Good Thing.
I most definitely am not. Revise any miscalibrated trustworthiness priors accordingly.
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I suspect quite a few people think I’m kidding here.
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Remodernism: reconstructed modernism. Anti-authoritarian aesthetic of platonic minimalism that represents a clearcutting of bullshit Chesterton-fence baroque ornateness and pseudofractal profundity, to hold space for future chaotic complexity, and stick it to snowflake trads
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It’s weirdly hard to show people who you are and be believed 🤣
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The fundamental error of traditionalism is mistaking awe of the past for humility towards the future. So the traditionalist sees any interest in the future that strives to shake off the contamination of the past as arrogance.
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I sometimes think of traditionalism as the insistence that play should be prayerful
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I’m buying the dip on high modernism sans authoritarianism 😎
Good buying opportunity since Ideological markets are strangely distorted. Majority trads have somehow persuaded themselves they’re a 1% heretic minority.
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Picking fights and making enemies. Saturday night Twitter.
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