Culture
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Traditionalism
Progressivism
Frenzied meme adoption
Ingroup signaling
Running head first toward *anything* intended to save you is progressivism, even if the thing you are running toward is traditionalism!
This contradiction has been bothering me a lot lately.
This contradiction has been bothering me a lot lately.
The opposite is a kind of slow and steady building. Constantly asking: what am I doing? Why am I doing it? What do I value?
I see a sort of frenzied meme adoption everywhere I look. People trying to be more memed than everyone else.
I see a sort of frenzied meme adoption everywhere I look. People trying to be more memed than everyone else.
Seed oils, homesteading, trad, Mars, post liberal, rationalist, post rationalist, soy, pods, whatever.
It's like this race to adopt the new thing, never questioning if you actually even believe it. Ultimate in-group signaling. And then you abandon it soon after adopting.
It's like this race to adopt the new thing, never questioning if you actually even believe it. Ultimate in-group signaling. And then you abandon it soon after adopting.
Any of these answers to the problems of modernity *can* be the right answer, but how you approach it matters. It feels to me like everyone is just looking for a savior, a religion, and the quick road to belonging.
"I am anti-seed-oils"
"Come here, friend, have a seat"
"I am anti-seed-oils"
"Come here, friend, have a seat"
And just because the thing you adopt is against progressive values, doesn't mean that your desire to quickly adopt something like traditionalism isn't progressive in form.
More and more I feel like progressivism is a way of chewing up ideas and spitting them out. Using them up.
More and more I feel like progressivism is a way of chewing up ideas and spitting them out. Using them up.
The only appeal I can make is to instead think of re-building as a process of slowly building. First, a foundation: what do you value? What do you want to build? Then, the practical blocks of making your values reality. Inspired by memes but not imprisoned by them.
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