Hello Heathens,
I spent more time trying to figure out what I wanted to say about these people than I should have. Hopefully the below is mostly coherent and I get my point across about the dangers of coping online in faux political/cultural movements.

Has anyone checked in on the Trads recently? I’m not sure what exactly has been going on with people from the Trad community recently. I’ve seen enough unhinged posts from them, and had enough conversations with friends about the recent Trad revival to wonder what the hell is going on with these people?

Recently there was some news about the Scared Band of Thebes that popped up on Twitter. A few popular Trad-life accounts poked their heads out to try to talk about that the Greeks were not as accepting of homosexuality versus the modern era. What I thought was interesting about this is that all the historical evidence is there to rebuke this claim. The Trads seem caught up in pretending that history was full of machismo up until 1995. While there is some truth to the idea of homosexual as a brand identity being new, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the “gay identity” for men is thousands of years old. What annoys me is the statue avatar accounts are pushing the propaganda of a past that never existed. There are a lot of powerful and great ideas from the past that we have forgotten in the modern age. One of these being the role that religion plays in communities beyond teaching moral lessons.

Religious institutions serve as a place for people who have a shared set of beliefs to meet in person, socialize, act as charity organizations, and as a meeting place. Trads seem to ignore the positive social benefits of religion in order to post about how having a set of beliefs makes them morally superior to non-believers. Religion, especially Christianity is just a way to posture online as alternative and cool to these people. They didn’t have any sort of involvement in the Church (going to talk mostly about Catholicism specifically because I grew up Catholic) until they were in their 30’s. They dogmatically defend a heritage that they have no real stake in aside from posturing online. The Church has never been a cultural relic sealed in amber and has always slowly updated the Catechism to reflect the social realities of the age. The insistence on returning to a tradition in the Church that these people never grew up in is just beyond wild. Some traditions like the Latin Mass have been moved away from to make it so that more people are able to capture the ideas and lessons from the Church.

Historical lessons from classic thinkers are the next area where we see a perversion solely for online posturing. Thinking that having a few quotes ready from famous thinkers like Aristotle is a good replacement for having read the rest of his works, and taking the time to talk about his works with others is just foolish. Given how many posts I see on their social media accounts boil down to, “I don’t like this thing and it makes me mad,” makes me wonder if they have read any of the classic thinkers at all. I think that what specifically annoys me about Trads is it’s the same coping strategy you see from other groups online (Tankies, Nazis, etc). They all know society will never buy into their idiot beliefs, but they spend their days languishing online pretending that society will turn to eternally online, sad, desperate people to lead them.

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