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Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism
Conversations with Tyler
Transhumanism and the Printing Press
There is a tension between my catholic or christian moral commitments and my desire to decadence. I'm sort of stealing my definition from jacques barzoon, who said, it's not a slur, the term, it's a technical label. To overcome decadence you have to actually embrace innovations that you yourself are not comfortable with. The printing press in its early days, led to religious war, i would asserty certainly been against the printing press. And also, i think why i'm drawn much more to the older frontier, you know, the idea of the space programme and space as a frontier.
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