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''Some ask why I support “load bearing” & “adult-level” fictions over the truth & request examples. Here’s one: it’s likely structurally important that Supreme Court Justices continue performing in costume to suggest they’re spiritually superior druids of unfathomable legal genius.''
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|content=Some ask why I support “load bearing” &amp; “adult-level” fictions over the truth &amp; request examples. Here’s one: it’s likely structurally important that Supreme Court Justices continue performing in costume to suggest they’re spiritually superior druids of unfathomable legal genius.
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|content=I respectfully disagree. The immigration tale of US is an essential load-bearing national mythology lIke "1 man 1 vote." This is our story. https://x.com/martyrmade/status/826493460786008066
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|content=What makes America great *is* in large part our mythology. If we tear all load-bearing myths to shreds (e.g. a 'Free Press') we undo the US.
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|content=My problem is that we are not honest about the cost of these fictions. Further the cost of destroying these fictions may be immense. Do not discount the structural reality of a “load bearing fiction.”
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|content=The U.S. President today didn’t ‘recognize’ Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Rather we finally stood up to those who insist that we pretend it isn’t.
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|content=That’s bad enough. But the real danger is breakaway factionalism. What if entire groups of citizens find incompatible ideologies irresistible? What unifies them? How do you hold citizens together when multiple groups say “different people have different rights.” You need bedrock.
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|content=This is a point I have also made in a different form. “We hold these truths to be SELF-EVIDENT...ALL men...are endowed by their CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE Rights,”
 
You can complain all you want but those words are load bearing. That’s partly why this atheist says prayers.
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|content=Thread: I’ve come to the conclusion that the collapse we’re in now is the inevitable end of what purely secular liberalism looks like. (A sad reality as someone who wrote a book defending liberalism.) The tolerance baked into liberalism is what let Wokeism into the system
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|content=If one worships at the altar of pure reason one may also lead a noble life. In fact it is wholly possible that one may lead a better and more moral life than the pious hypocrite down the street. That’s not the problem. The problem is secular humanism coordinating and scaling.
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|content=When you hit the “why questions” over &amp; over you have no last line of defense when a sociopath or crazy person openly tells you “What’s wrong with my redefinition of human flourishing? Why are you right and I’m wrong? Who died and made you the arbiter of truth? Why these rules?”
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Revision as of 05:46, 24 September 2025

Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Some ask why I support “load bearing” & “adult-level” fictions over the truth & request examples. Here’s one: it’s likely structurally important that Supreme Court Justices continue performing in costume to suggest they’re spiritually superior druids of unfathomable legal genius.

ERW-X-post-1023774102870343680.jpg
3:35 AM · Jul 30, 2018


Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

I respectfully disagree. The immigration tale of US is an essential load-bearing national mythology lIke "1 man 1 vote." This is our story. https://x.com/martyrmade/status/826493460786008066

6:17 PM · Jan 31, 2017


Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

What makes America great *is* in large part our mythology. If we tear all load-bearing myths to shreds (e.g. a 'Free Press') we undo the US.

1:22 AM · Feb 18, 2017


Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

The U.S. President today didn’t ‘recognize’ Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Rather we finally stood up to those who insist that we pretend it isn’t.

12:02 AM · Dec 6, 2017
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

My problem is that we are not honest about the cost of these fictions. Further the cost of destroying these fictions may be immense. Do not discount the structural reality of a “load bearing fiction.”

12:10 AM · Dec 6, 2017


Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

This is a point I have also made in a different form. “We hold these truths to be SELF-EVIDENT...ALL men...are endowed by their CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE Rights,”

You can complain all you want but those words are load bearing. That’s partly why this atheist says prayers.

3:19 PM · Feb 6, 2021
RubinReport-profile.jpg
Dave Rubin

Thread: I’ve come to the conclusion that the collapse we’re in now is the inevitable end of what purely secular liberalism looks like. (A sad reality as someone who wrote a book defending liberalism.) The tolerance baked into liberalism is what let Wokeism into the system

3:19 PM · Feb 6, 2021
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

If one worships at the altar of pure reason one may also lead a noble life. In fact it is wholly possible that one may lead a better and more moral life than the pious hypocrite down the street. That’s not the problem. The problem is secular humanism coordinating and scaling.

3:27 PM · Feb 6, 2021
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

When you hit the “why questions” over & over you have no last line of defense when a sociopath or crazy person openly tells you “What’s wrong with my redefinition of human flourishing? Why are you right and I’m wrong? Who died and made you the arbiter of truth? Why these rules?”

3:27 PM · Feb 6, 2021
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

That’s bad enough. But the real danger is breakaway factionalism. What if entire groups of citizens find incompatible ideologies irresistible? What unifies them? How do you hold citizens together when multiple groups say “different people have different rights.” You need bedrock.

3:50 PM · Feb 6, 2021

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