Tradition [first entry in the taphonomy of worlding]

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, whose 'one job' is to maintain and conserve the organic work of ages that is society, but the radical rightists, or at least their painted orange idols, destroy-destroy-destroy in the name of disruption as liberty, or at least being able to punch down when they feel like it.

Edmund Burke, where are you?

As these conservative 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 of today?

Do these rightists (economic or ontological) simply 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. So I fold the black and red rag into a napkin.

The key turning here, was the turncoat of censorship or de-platforming, the cancellation that allows the confuses liberty with the right to punch-down on one’s ontological inferiors. In creating political correctness instead of respect and kindness, a reactionary theft of propriety known as trolling-for-the-LOLs was given a platform. The spoilt and spoiling were given a ill-disciplinary power that no narcissist should have. And this will be used by them to proudly acquire the freedom to enslave others, if not eat their own children.

Tradition: how we used to do things, because that is how we keep it all together. Or not even.

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].

All entries in the taphonomy of worlding.