Tradition [first entry in the taphonomy of worlding]
As inspired by Raymond Williams 'Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society'
We witness times in which radical rightists sidestep with a ressentiment-baited levée en masse, their bewildered love-bombed allies, those conservatives with a superscript c. They whose one job is to maintain and conserve the organic work of ages that is society. A job description often thought best described by Edmund Burke. They just stand there, lovestruck, and let the rightists undo all that for which their constitutions have made them proud to defend.
As they fail at their one job in this world turned upside down, I wonder at my own younger views of tradition, am I becoming the Edmund Burke to the youth of my own revolution, am I a conservative with a subscript c? Am I now a champion of tradition, or at least the of the world of my youth, even as I know all generations traditionally complain about the yoof today?
Do these rightists (economic or ontological) make me look fondly on the past, or at least on the past I have known? Am I upset by the fact that my old traditional enemies are now possible allies? I.E. Be polite, be respectful, even if you cannot be kind. Fold the black and red rag into a napkin.
The key turning here, is the turncoat of censorship or de-platforming, the confusion of liberty with the right to punch-down on one’s ontological inferiors. In creating political correctness, the responding theft of propriety known as trolling-for-the-LOLs, is given a disciplinary power that no narcissist should have. That will be used by them to become slavers and eaters of their own children.
Tradition: how we used to do things, because that is how we keep it all together, even if we can.
See also: [Future post on agnosticism, yet to be written]
As inspired by Raymond Williams 'Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society' Croom Helm, 1978, [London].
