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I'm not an optimist or a progressivist

Posted by Errant on 2023-November-13 07:12:36, Monday
In reply to Optimism is our opium. posted by diogenes on 2023-November-11 10:11:58, Saturday

"you look to the present and the future"

It's true that I look at the past with a skeptical eye rather than with nostalgia, but that's because I look at everything with a skeptical eye, including the present and the future. I don't even look for inspiration anywhere as I am enough of an individualist that I require no social validation from the past, present or future. Looking for inspiration anywhere can be a mirage. I'm just trying to understand how these changes actually happen, how conditions improve and how they worsen, both of which have taken place depending on which aspect of society you're looking at. So if I say that society has "moved on" in one area, that is not an overall progressivist statement. I try to avoid speaking in such generalities.

"I don't believe that pederastic mentorship presupposes the relative poverty of the boy's family. This wasn't true in ancient Greece..."

Not a fair comparison. The ancient Greeks didn't have the same scruples society today does.

Errant

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