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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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I think this is because if you give hedgehogs even one little idea they like, they find it painful to not integrate everything you say into their worldview. And extreme loss aversion explains why they can’t give up on the one little thing till they alt-source a kosher substitute
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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’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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