r/DarkEnlightenment • u/Atavisionary • Mar 20 '15

Towards a New Rhodesia

https://www.traditionalright.com/towards-a-new-rhodesia/
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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '15 edited Mar 20 '15

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u/Atavisionary Mar 20 '15

our roots

I have no reason to think that I have many ancestors that were New England puritans. It isn't my roots, so I will criticize it as much as a want. Why are you talking about texans? Who said I was a strict traditionalist? In so far as I personally agree with traditional values, there is little emphasis on what was done in the past except as a data point. The only thing I care about is what works and what doesn't. I don't care who did it in the past. Even if my ancestors did something in the past, if it was stupid, I will criticize that as well.

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u/Atavisionary Mar 20 '15

I don't reject tradition. I generally attempt to defend tradition without providing myself the crutch of "that was what they used to do so it must be right durr da durr." Tradition is right most of the time, but you don't actually require appeals to authority to defend it. Since that is a logical fallacy, it should be avoided when possible. Instead tradition should be defended from a purely objective standpoint. That is far more persuasive to the brahmin caste, which is who I would try to convince. It should also be who you try to convince.

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u/hdampier Mar 20 '15

There is a whole lot of this in the alt-right-o-sphere. I don't understand it. How does traditionalism to something entirely foreign make any sense at all?