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Some people have pointed out that this article makes case for "traditionally" conservative issues and I agree. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm greatly influe
by Kosirich 5y ago
Some people have pointed out that this article makes case for "traditionally" conservative issues and I agree.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm greatly influenced by Taleb way of summarizing knowledge in his books and how he deals with this issues, so I'll give it my take:
- if something existed through out cultures, it was probably tested and it exists for a reason(1,3,4)
- word used today in English might not have completely (etymological) different meaning (3)
- question of progress is not a yes/no question but "at what speed" (4,6)
- high value signals have "value" if there is skin in the game(1)
- you don't experiment on complex systems(2)
- the idiot-yet-intellectual (5)
- it's the outcome that matters (6)
- DarylZero 5y agoSociety traditionally is overall a mechanism of farming slaves, so that elites don't have to work. If you don't know the reason for something in society, it's usually that. (You aren't going to find democratic or moral reasons for things in society, but exploitative strategies.)
- Kosirich 5y agoSo I'm guessing you don't see a connection between your comment and point 5 of the author, nor the closing paragraph at the end?
- DarylZero 5y agoNothing edgy about what I said. Just injecting some realism. Slavery was abolished less than 200 years ago. Jim Crow was abolished less than 100 years ago. This kind of bullshit about "society has reasons" cannot ever play in black communities because they have living memory of these historical experiences.