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This got me thinking…idealized masculinity/femininity superficially look racial (think Nordic chad, Mediterranean chad), but now I’m suspecting they exist at the “sacred language” level of abstraction on the cultural stack. Latin Real Man, Old Norse Real Man, Arabic Real Man…
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Huntington famously divided the world into a number of civilisations. However, his classification looks arbitrary. What if we adopt a much superior and more objective Andersonian paradigm? Those who use the same sacred language comprise a separate sacred community (=civilisation)
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The nordcuck/medcuck meme war was very revealing back in the day… feels like the whole world is basically acting out this meme war Russia-Ukraine seems to be between 2 subtypes of Slavic Real Man
Kinda makes sense — sacred languages tend to be defined by two things: sacred religious books, and epics. The masculinity/femininity archetypes tend to be drawn from the epics. So Thor/Hercules is synecdoche for Nordic/Mediterranean. Or Beowulf/Achilles.
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In constructing these archetypes, the race is only piece of the image. You also have clothing, hairstyle etc. Which are all culturally coded at the sacred-language level.
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I’d like to see a world map of these meme faces. The American ones would probably be Founding Father, Cowboy, Sam Spade, WW2 GI, Right Stuff astronaut…
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