Honestly I feel like it could have used another few paragraphs at the end. You're absolutely right that it takes multiple generations for traditions to mature. We've lived through the western "End of History" as Fukuyama said. It was an attempt by the post-modernists to wipe clean the slate of society and start again. It was a disaster.
Rebuilding what was lost will take a generation or two as new traditions and taboos are forced to develop. What we need most right now is space. We need cultural breathing room without constant once-in-a-lifetime changes to our ways of being. We need time to develop and the Tech Bro's are keeping human civilization too unbalanced to evolve new thoughts before they're rendered once again obsolete.
I think we'll figure it out, but the next 15 years will be touchy.
This, like much of the cultural "war" commentary on both sides, is missing the fundamental point:
"Competing narratives and ideologies, even those that are highly critical or incendiary, are not suppressed, but diffused across a closed, virtual ecosystem. Meanwhile, the hardened infrastructure of society remains untouched: the user’s mind may run wild, but the facts on the ground remain immovable."
"The liberal-individualist ethos of American life ultimately produces what we might call an Inverse Plato’s Republic: not a state ruled by philosopher-kings harmonizing their souls with a vision of the Good, but a visionless, chaotic order held together by appetites, procedures, and feedback loops. There is no need for “guardians” because the system is already largely self-governing. Moral decay and cultural collapse (declines in family structure, the arts, or collective education) do not threaten the system. In many ways, they furnish the raw material for its continued evolution. Both the moralists and the cultural apologists miss the point: their concerns are now structurally decoupled from the system’s functioning. Decay no longer represents a risk. It is, paradoxically, a stabilizer."
See more analysis on these and other issues (and why they paradoxically build stability and resilience into our sick society) here:
This article is missing the real story. All cultural and philosophical ramifications of the Donald Trump presidency are mere parlor game abstractions compared to the criminalization and finance bubble aspects of the Trump-certified Cryptocurrency economy, the speculative economy of fantasy AI and its real-world escalation of power plant energy requirements, and the Faustian ambitions of the de facto plutocracy of tech/criminal/finance billionaires that funded Trump's restoration.
I find reading these investigative pieces much more difficult and much less entertaining than fantasizing about what the Trump presidency might mean for a return to the Shire of Wholesome Family Values. But due diligence requires it.
My fellow ordinary citizen-type Americans, we're about to get...something really bad is liable to happen. Maybe we can stop the worst of it, if enough people learn the facts and pick up on what they imply.
Great article. Thanks for the shoutout.
Honestly I feel like it could have used another few paragraphs at the end. You're absolutely right that it takes multiple generations for traditions to mature. We've lived through the western "End of History" as Fukuyama said. It was an attempt by the post-modernists to wipe clean the slate of society and start again. It was a disaster.
Rebuilding what was lost will take a generation or two as new traditions and taboos are forced to develop. What we need most right now is space. We need cultural breathing room without constant once-in-a-lifetime changes to our ways of being. We need time to develop and the Tech Bro's are keeping human civilization too unbalanced to evolve new thoughts before they're rendered once again obsolete.
I think we'll figure it out, but the next 15 years will be touchy.
Also felt like next 10-15 will be touchy, but something will survive and can be built upon.
The most micro-culture of them all has a membership of 1. Individualism is alive and well!
All of this fitting people into groups is so last year.
This, like much of the cultural "war" commentary on both sides, is missing the fundamental point:
"Competing narratives and ideologies, even those that are highly critical or incendiary, are not suppressed, but diffused across a closed, virtual ecosystem. Meanwhile, the hardened infrastructure of society remains untouched: the user’s mind may run wild, but the facts on the ground remain immovable."
"The liberal-individualist ethos of American life ultimately produces what we might call an Inverse Plato’s Republic: not a state ruled by philosopher-kings harmonizing their souls with a vision of the Good, but a visionless, chaotic order held together by appetites, procedures, and feedback loops. There is no need for “guardians” because the system is already largely self-governing. Moral decay and cultural collapse (declines in family structure, the arts, or collective education) do not threaten the system. In many ways, they furnish the raw material for its continued evolution. Both the moralists and the cultural apologists miss the point: their concerns are now structurally decoupled from the system’s functioning. Decay no longer represents a risk. It is, paradoxically, a stabilizer."
See more analysis on these and other issues (and why they paradoxically build stability and resilience into our sick society) here:
https://tobyshandy.substack.com/p/why-american-society-is-incredibly
Religiousity will continue to decline. It's lowest among the younger generations and highest among the oldest. "elite theory" won't save it.
This article is missing the real story. All cultural and philosophical ramifications of the Donald Trump presidency are mere parlor game abstractions compared to the criminalization and finance bubble aspects of the Trump-certified Cryptocurrency economy, the speculative economy of fantasy AI and its real-world escalation of power plant energy requirements, and the Faustian ambitions of the de facto plutocracy of tech/criminal/finance billionaires that funded Trump's restoration.
These people know:
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/
https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/justin-sun-donald-trump-and-the-75?selection=43d8f503-4def-450a-83c0-ee70d8bd059d
https://archive.ph/NiCRD
https://techfascism.substack.com/p/the-thin-control-plane-how-venture
I find reading these investigative pieces much more difficult and much less entertaining than fantasizing about what the Trump presidency might mean for a return to the Shire of Wholesome Family Values. But due diligence requires it.
My fellow ordinary citizen-type Americans, we're about to get...something really bad is liable to happen. Maybe we can stop the worst of it, if enough people learn the facts and pick up on what they imply.