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Modern society is like a conjurer who whacks your heirloom rolex with a mallet for a trick. When all that remains is a pile of cogs, broken glass and twisted m
by realjhol 4y ago
Modern society is like a conjurer who whacks your heirloom rolex with a mallet for a trick. When all that remains is a pile of cogs, broken glass and twisted metal, it suddenly dawns on him.... he's forgotten the end of the trick.
Modernity: let's smash everything. What can possibly go wrong?
- xyzelement 4y agoWhat an amazing analogy.
- Loocid 4y agoIs it? It seems incredibly forced to me.
- the_only_law 4y agoHN thinks anything they agree with is profound even if it’s just bullshit wrapped up in a little paragraph.
- brunellus 4y agoTolstoy phrased it more beautifully “If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.”
- xyzelement 4y agoThank you! This made me find the source of the quote and the wiki page on that - very in line with how my own view is evolving.
- supriyo-biswas 4y agoIt’s literally a variant of Chesterton’s fence, so it doesn’t seem forced to me.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoIt's a nice image, but there's no unsmashing that watch. You can decry the destruction of tradition, but good luck re-instituting it, those traditions developed in a different world, for example the extended families living together (to take care of children and the elderly) broke up as young people moved to where work was (and various institutions took over child- and eldercare, with varying degrees of success). I think it's too easy to say that pre-modern societies were automatically happier, they were more predictable, but certainly had plenty of people who didn't have a great time. The real question for us now is how do we want to go forward, not why can't we go back.
- realjhol 4y agoFirst we reject this Whig History nonsense that history is an inevitable march forward. It is clear we have gone badly off course. We have chosen a future that is making people desperately unhappy. So we need to re-adopt things that were carelessly cast aside. 1. Women should use union power to demand proper respect from men. No more sex outside of marriage. 2. Make marriage laws much more strict. No more no-fault divorce. Marriage is a life-long commitment that people shouldn't be incentivised to bail out of - especially not with lucrative settlements. 3. Tar and feather feminists and all people perpetuating divisive gender ideology that makes partnership impossible. 4. Normalise full-time motherhood as a profession that the large majority of women will adopt for a time. No more trying to have it all while the children suffer. 5. Extreme penalties for all pornographers. Their product blights our lives and debases our society. 6. Zero income tax for any married woman who has had more than 4 children - a stroke of brilliance from the Hungarians. There's just a few ideas for ways we could tip the scales in favour of marriage thus making men, women and children's lives far more happy and fulfilled.
- colinwilyb 4y agoI made a summary of your points: 1. Tell women how to live. 2. Take away personal agency. 3. Tar and feather anyone who supports gender beyond 'male' and 'female'. 4. Tell women how to live. 5. No pornography. 6. Financial incentives for large families. (Which, based on #4, also removes women from many long term careers.)