My phone says that it's not snowing but my eyes and skin says that it is. Whom should I believe?
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All great books will have little reactionary bits of wisdom like this one scattered throughout. It's impossible to love a topic, write about it sincerely, and avoid doing this.
True understanding requires proper hierarchy — the acknowledgment that some thoughts, some traditions, some ways of seeing are simply better than others. When you deeply engage with any subject, you inevitably encounter the reality that some approaches work and others fail, that some methods endure while others collapse, that wisdom accumulates in certain patterns that modern thought tries desperately to deny.
Look at any master writing about their craft — whether it's cooking, carpentry, physics, or music. They'll eventually reveal truths about proper order and right relationship that sound strange to modern ears. Not because they're politically motivated, but because these truths are inevitable when you truly understand anything.
The cook must acknowledge the authority of heat and timing. The master carpenter must bow before the truth of grain and growth rings. The physicist submits to immutable natural laws. The musician yields to the mathematical truth of harmonics. Each, in their own way, discovers that reality has an order that must be respected rather than revolutionized.
Even the most progressive author, if they genuinely love and understand their subject, will accidentally stumble into eternal truths. The very act of mastery requires acknowledging better and worse, higher and lower, proper and improper order.
The more deeply someone understands and loves their field, the more likely they are to accidentally speak truth that sounds reactionary to modern ears — not from political conviction, but from direct encounter with the way things actually are.
True understanding requires proper hierarchy — the acknowledgment that some thoughts, some traditions, some ways of seeing are simply better than others. When you deeply engage with any subject, you inevitably encounter the reality that some approaches work and others fail, that some methods endure while others collapse, that wisdom accumulates in certain patterns that modern thought tries desperately to deny.
Look at any master writing about their craft — whether it's cooking, carpentry, physics, or music. They'll eventually reveal truths about proper order and right relationship that sound strange to modern ears. Not because they're politically motivated, but because these truths are inevitable when you truly understand anything.
The cook must acknowledge the authority of heat and timing. The master carpenter must bow before the truth of grain and growth rings. The physicist submits to immutable natural laws. The musician yields to the mathematical truth of harmonics. Each, in their own way, discovers that reality has an order that must be respected rather than revolutionized.
Even the most progressive author, if they genuinely love and understand their subject, will accidentally stumble into eternal truths. The very act of mastery requires acknowledging better and worse, higher and lower, proper and improper order.
The more deeply someone understands and loves their field, the more likely they are to accidentally speak truth that sounds reactionary to modern ears — not from political conviction, but from direct encounter with the way things actually are.
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All great books will have little reactionary bits of wisdom like this one scattered throughout. It's impossible to love a topic, write about it sincerely, and avoid doing this. True understanding requires proper hierarchy — the acknowledgment that some thoughts…
Let us consider what this means for a moment, let us think about the practical implications for both the cathedral and for folks like us.
For the system to maintain its illusions of progress and equality, it must prevent people from discovering eternal truths through mastery, as such truths add up and start to display as cracks in the mural, which might encourage folks to see what's underneath. Thus, we see the systematic replacement of true expertise with credentialism, of wisdom with data, of understanding with mere technical skill. They create experts who know everything about their field except its deeper truths.
This explains why modern education deliberately fragments knowledge, why crafts are reduced to hobbies, why even scientific understanding is increasingly replaced by mere technological manipulation. A physicist who truly understands natural law might start questioning other supposedly malleable orders. A craftsman who grasps the authority of material might begin to recognize other legitimate hierarchies. These revelations must be prevented.
For us, this suggests an obvious course. Every person who develops deep mastery of a legitimate craft or field — who comes to love something real enough to understand it truly — inevitably discovers truths that contradict modern dogma. Not through political instruction, but through direct encounter with reality's stubborn insistence on proper order. A master carpenter cannot be a true progressive; wood itself will teach him otherwise.
Therefore, encouraging genuine mastery becomes inherently right-wing. Teaching people to love something deeply enough to understand it, to submit to its demands rather than impose their will upon it — this itself becomes a counter-revolutionary act. The system requires shallow engagement; we should promote depth. They demand superficial familiarity; we should encourage true understanding.
In the end, this may be our most important task — not merely preserving knowledge ourselves, but encouraging others to love something real enough to master it. For in that mastery, they will inevitably discover the eternal truths that our enemies work so hard to hide. The carpenter's reverence for grain, the musician's submission to harmony, the mathematician's awe before proof — each is a small rebellion against chaos, a quiet recognition of proper order that no amount of progressive programming can entirely erase.
For the system to maintain its illusions of progress and equality, it must prevent people from discovering eternal truths through mastery, as such truths add up and start to display as cracks in the mural, which might encourage folks to see what's underneath. Thus, we see the systematic replacement of true expertise with credentialism, of wisdom with data, of understanding with mere technical skill. They create experts who know everything about their field except its deeper truths.
This explains why modern education deliberately fragments knowledge, why crafts are reduced to hobbies, why even scientific understanding is increasingly replaced by mere technological manipulation. A physicist who truly understands natural law might start questioning other supposedly malleable orders. A craftsman who grasps the authority of material might begin to recognize other legitimate hierarchies. These revelations must be prevented.
For us, this suggests an obvious course. Every person who develops deep mastery of a legitimate craft or field — who comes to love something real enough to understand it truly — inevitably discovers truths that contradict modern dogma. Not through political instruction, but through direct encounter with reality's stubborn insistence on proper order. A master carpenter cannot be a true progressive; wood itself will teach him otherwise.
Therefore, encouraging genuine mastery becomes inherently right-wing. Teaching people to love something deeply enough to understand it, to submit to its demands rather than impose their will upon it — this itself becomes a counter-revolutionary act. The system requires shallow engagement; we should promote depth. They demand superficial familiarity; we should encourage true understanding.
In the end, this may be our most important task — not merely preserving knowledge ourselves, but encouraging others to love something real enough to master it. For in that mastery, they will inevitably discover the eternal truths that our enemies work so hard to hide. The carpenter's reverence for grain, the musician's submission to harmony, the mathematician's awe before proof — each is a small rebellion against chaos, a quiet recognition of proper order that no amount of progressive programming can entirely erase.
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As per usual, the modern version of these things is devoid of proper order and purpose.
Food is great. But love of it for it for its own sake is pure gluttony. A proper love of food is pointed towards providing nourishment for family and community, for caring for your own body, and perhaps even for appreciating higher things like God and His love for us.
The world is an amazing place. But for most people, travel should be done narrowly. You should have an extensive knowledge of your abode. If you don't know the square mile around your home like the back of your hand, what point is there in branching outward? Cultivate a deep love for the place where you live rather than a mild care for dozens of different places. Your locale sustains you; cherish it.
Food is great. But love of it for it for its own sake is pure gluttony. A proper love of food is pointed towards providing nourishment for family and community, for caring for your own body, and perhaps even for appreciating higher things like God and His love for us.
The world is an amazing place. But for most people, travel should be done narrowly. You should have an extensive knowledge of your abode. If you don't know the square mile around your home like the back of your hand, what point is there in branching outward? Cultivate a deep love for the place where you live rather than a mild care for dozens of different places. Your locale sustains you; cherish it.
Regarding inter-sect debate, when it occurs in chat, the goal is for all sides to come away understanding the other sides positions a bit better. Whoever is correct, God will help you if you are humble and genuinely trying to discover the truth.
The one exception: No Mormons.
The one exception: No Mormons.