{"id":32073,"date":"2017-03-21T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32073"},"modified":"2020-06-20T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T20:20:10","slug":"qotd-societys-unspoken-rules-and-modern-iconoclasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/21\/qotd-societys-unspoken-rules-and-modern-iconoclasts\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Society’s unspoken rules and modern iconoclasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately for us, starting with Rousseau, someone mistook those rules for \u201carbitrary and unnecessary.\u201d Now, a lot of them were, of course. Human societies acquire unspoken rules, a lot of them dross, like a dog acquires fleas. And yep, if you follow all the unspoken rules, you\u2019ll reinforce the power of the elites because that\u2019s what the rules are designed to do. […]<\/p>\n

But the Rousseau attempt to change those rules started from the idea that all unspoken societal rules were wrong. ALL of them. And that absent them, humans would live in a sort of paradise. I wish he\u2019d been acquainted with some savages, not the least because then he probably wouldn\u2019t have lived to pen his awfully misguided ideas. His ideas have been bouncing around society for a while, aided by Marxism (Marx MUST have been Asperger\u2019s. No, I mean that. He looked at society and had no clue why things functioned, and couldn\u2019t see people as people but as widgets belonging to particular groups which MUST of course be opposed to other groups they interacted with) in its feminist and racialist versions, cut the threads of things that were actually important, functional, and so early-set-in that they were never spoken of.<\/p>\n

So women didn\u2019t see the two sides of the bargain and just saw the way their side of it \u201coppressed\u201d them, which led them to lose the power they did have in society, and now they want it back \u2013 see the way they\u2019re racing back to the fainting couch where men can\u2019t touch them or look at them \u2013 but since they don\u2019t understand its origins, they\u2019re trying to get it back in all the wrong ways. It\u2019s all \u201ccheck your privilege\u201d but without ever checking their own privilege, even as it causes white knights to run to their defense. I don\u2019t know how long a society or a culture can last like this. Every time I know of in history, it ended in tears or guillotines.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hoyt, “Noblesse Oblige and Mare\u2019s Nests”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-05-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately for us, starting with Rousseau, someone mistook those rules for \u201carbitrary and unnecessary.\u201d Now, a lot of them were, of course. Human societies acquire unspoken rules, a lot of them dross, like a dog acquires fleas. And yep, if you follow all the unspoken rules, you\u2019ll reinforce the power of the elites because that\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[780,262,1376,1076,912,1182,43],"class_list":["post-32073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-communism","tag-culture","tag-iconoclasm","tag-karlmarx","tag-privilege","tag-rousseau","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58027,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32073\/revisions\/58027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}