“Dialectics” is nonsense gibberish.
“Dialectics” is nonsense gibberish.
“Dialectics” is perfectly sensible.
“Dialectics” is a bit of both
“Dialectics” is nonsense gibberish.
“Dialectics” is perfectly sensible.
“Dialectics” is a bit of both
How's Gideon a synthesis of both sides in the culture war?
Okay you know dialectics, thesis/antithesis/synthesis?
how did the 60s era freedoms get rolled back if the thesis never defeats the anti-thesis?
synthesized the wrong parts
What makes you think the flip is coming any time soon? I was convinced it was as well, but between Dobbs and then the GOP nominating a fleet of circus clowns it feels like it's been stopped in its tracks. A lot of the people I thought had decent heads on their shoulders have suddenly flipped 100% woke and the rest have self-destructed James Lindsay/Jordan Peterson style. Where is the flip coming from?
No the thesis doesn’t have a late comeback and beat the antithesis, the flip is to the synthesis; get on building that early, let them spend themselves staking out positions and slapping each other, by the time you’re established none of it matters
OK then, how ARE things going to resolve in five years? I'm hearing a lot about how things are looking up but not seeing the evidence.
The new counterculture’ll define itself as a stable, rising but not yet dominant, likely rural, form
dialectics is when there is two of something
dialectics isn’t when there is two of something
dialectics is when there both is and isn’t two of something
“How did the author of Harry Potter become an avatar of conservative cause?” like
“how did VICE give rise to the Proud Boys”, “how did celebreality competition TV give us a president”, “why is 4chan still Like That but now geopolitically”, “why is Billy Corgan conservative now”, “why was Dan Savage’s Seattle Stranger the cradle for Jesse Singal’s clique”, “why is Matt Yglesias at least anti-bluepilled now”
“Cultural conservatism” has updated its golden-age referent from The Fifties to The Nineties (in both cases it showed up late and bled into the next decade). The people who rose to the top of The 90s Culture will defend it as fundamentally legitimate, which is now coded as archconservative
Meditate on the way the Reaganite 80s (lasting into the Clinton era, remember school uniforms and prayer as issues lol) were taken as an unstoppable onslaught of 50s revival but in the 90s it was obvious that people who kept the spirit of the 60s alive had won
(And how in fact performatively dirtbag VICE was really part of 2000s 70s-revivalism, same as American Apparel)
I. it was grubby and everyone was trying to win but then someone did
II. FOR NOW