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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This seems sort-of related
moultano.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/the
Also maybe discussion about it on /r/themotte;
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