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Meta Ronin's avatar

As an ex-oregonian and ex-hipster, who dabbled in hippiedom I can relate. Also read Putnam: Bowling Alone long before it became popularized in these corners. At the time it seemed liberating to not belong to anything and instead solo through life on your own (Nietzschean if you will), but I found myself always seeking out organizations to fill the void left.

Also good mention of Third Spaces, this doesn't get talked about enough

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Argo the Second's avatar

It's a travesty in my opinion that the comment section of this post is empty. Call me old-school, but I'll take comment sections over notes or social media any day. Comment sections are a clear shared experience, while notes depend on the algorithm.

Damn the visibility, I want my third space under the footer, and I don't like it when it's paywalled (as understandable as that is).

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Steve the sailor's avatar

Some mock the comment sections. They can be horrible, especially when the content they comment attracts the flying monkeys. But they can be really, really good. When I read used to read the online Wall Street Journal regularly, the comment section was frequently more intelligent and thoughtful than the article. Good Substack writers are probably like these former commenters, setting aside time from their main lives to step into writing and sense-making. Thoughtful, interested, well spoken, somewhat humble, wanting to help start a conversation, to help make sense of the world and having what it takes to move the needle.

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Juniper's avatar

The biggest issue with our modern rulers is that they are not apt to be rulers. They don’t have the qualities of Rulers. Nerds, Geeks, Hipsters, etc. are cultures not built around qualities that make for good rulers, and when you inadvertently flanderize yourself into one of these cultures you become culturally inapt to rule.

We all are ruled, but who are we ruled by? Why be ruled by what is weak, when you can be ruled by what is strong? Religion, the Christian religion in my prerogative, gives us our strong ruler. And here on earth we need to rebuild culture that produces leaders and rulers, not winers and weaklings.

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Blue Vir's avatar

Typical right-wing politbro

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Ike's avatar

Flanderization (I like the descriptor) is mimetic desire cranked up to 11. We have some sensation of being manipulated via mimesis and so, in a self-conscious way, are anxious not to be seen as "one of those guys" because every identity now feels like a costume.

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Hans Castorp's avatar

Apart from independent content creators on Substack, what are the best Right wing/Conservative periodicals in the UK? (Asking as a continental European)

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Dave Greene's avatar

Lol what the hell are you talking about. Why don’t use just respond to the ideas in play?

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Dave Greene's avatar

Which lies would those be from this speech? Curious now.

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Steve the sailor's avatar

Don't make the comment section your place to rant about everything you don't like, except that you are actually proving a point about the dogmatic, ideologue, straw-manning left. Unintended confirmation that some stereotypes are pretty spot-on. Capped by the insincere "Have a nice day" which is the same as spitting, crying, running home with your ball because you can't engage normally.

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Anonymous's avatar

No one here is shilling Reaganomics.

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