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> There is a common view of cultural norms as at worst tyrannical or at best random and arbitrary, rather than the sophisticated and curated product of billions of human lives.

Examine any of these “fundamental norms” and see that they were not so fundamental after all. With their narratives built to enforce cultural norms today, not genuinely explore lessons from the past.

My grandma will _insist_ that homosexuality simply didn’t exist when she was younger. This is the “sophisticated” product you speak of - a blatant denial of reality.



Nothing says fun times like pretending denial is a new - or only an old thing.

There are tradeoffs to every path, many only visible long after the path is taken.

It’s easy to reject the old path because the tradeoffs are visible and it’s clearly not perfect.

That doesn’t mean the new path is going to be better - just less known.




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