pnrjulius comments on Cultish Countercultishness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 20 April 2012 01:58:22PM 0 points [-]

I think we can synthesize what Burke was saying into a more comprehensive theory that doesn't lead us into stasis, simply by saying something like this: "We must come up with new ideas that are better than the old ones---but we must MAKE SURE they are better before we implement them on a large scale."