"A polity is a set of informal and formal conventions. Getting new conventions accepted is hard." It's hard when technology is stable, much easier with newer (better, faster, stronger) tech which, at first, has few conventions and instead creates conventions. Like telephones ... then mobile phones, now smart phones, including watch phones.
Studies show that when students in a new class are allowed to choose their own seats, they do so. The first day. And by the second day, they "feel" that their seat belongs to them - a new convention on seating order in the class. Your essay is missing any clear examples of new conventions, tho I fully agree with your hesitation about casting any aside by anybody who is "cavalier about the stickiness and interconnectedness of some of the social conventions that he thinks can be cast aside.".
Once the kid has chosen a seat, it becomes his conventional seat, and he's usually quite unwilling to leave it - or he's found one of his neighbors is nearly insufferable and he's desperate to leave it. It took me awhile to leave Windows XP for Win 7; and also a few years extra to go to Win 10.
Lots of gurus have found success at creating cults that include non-conventional sex, most often involving the guru getting lots of sex. Yet becoming a guru is a "conventional way of being unconventional and creating new conventions".
The current CRT / SJW / PC-thought police methods of being hypocritical about Free Speech seem to be creating a new convention before our eyes: if you're a top Dem, you might be able to violate the law (like HR Clinton did with email); if you work for Trump or the current Woke target you're likely to be heavily investigated and found guilty of "something" - so the defense witness for Woke target Chauvin has become a Woke target himself, and his prior work for many years is now being audited.
But AZ election officials who delete 2020 election database records to avoid them being audited ... unlikely for them to suffer any negative consequences.
I hate this new "convention", but it seems to be heavily accepted by academics, media, Big Business, and Big Govt. Wasn't there even a name for the convention of Big Business working with Big Govt, together fighting against something bad?
Balaj writes that so many institutions "failed" -- but if they were working to install Woke fascism, (anti-Racist fascism) objectively they have been succeeding. This may be an even more depressing view than yours.
At $41.95 for the Kindle edition no wonder it is unread!
"A polity is a set of informal and formal conventions. Getting new conventions accepted is hard." It's hard when technology is stable, much easier with newer (better, faster, stronger) tech which, at first, has few conventions and instead creates conventions. Like telephones ... then mobile phones, now smart phones, including watch phones.
Studies show that when students in a new class are allowed to choose their own seats, they do so. The first day. And by the second day, they "feel" that their seat belongs to them - a new convention on seating order in the class. Your essay is missing any clear examples of new conventions, tho I fully agree with your hesitation about casting any aside by anybody who is "cavalier about the stickiness and interconnectedness of some of the social conventions that he thinks can be cast aside.".
Once the kid has chosen a seat, it becomes his conventional seat, and he's usually quite unwilling to leave it - or he's found one of his neighbors is nearly insufferable and he's desperate to leave it. It took me awhile to leave Windows XP for Win 7; and also a few years extra to go to Win 10.
Lots of gurus have found success at creating cults that include non-conventional sex, most often involving the guru getting lots of sex. Yet becoming a guru is a "conventional way of being unconventional and creating new conventions".
The current CRT / SJW / PC-thought police methods of being hypocritical about Free Speech seem to be creating a new convention before our eyes: if you're a top Dem, you might be able to violate the law (like HR Clinton did with email); if you work for Trump or the current Woke target you're likely to be heavily investigated and found guilty of "something" - so the defense witness for Woke target Chauvin has become a Woke target himself, and his prior work for many years is now being audited.
But AZ election officials who delete 2020 election database records to avoid them being audited ... unlikely for them to suffer any negative consequences.
I hate this new "convention", but it seems to be heavily accepted by academics, media, Big Business, and Big Govt. Wasn't there even a name for the convention of Big Business working with Big Govt, together fighting against something bad?
Balaj writes that so many institutions "failed" -- but if they were working to install Woke fascism, (anti-Racist fascism) objectively they have been succeeding. This may be an even more depressing view than yours.