Why do you want to define “genuine meta-contrarianness” based on correctness/merit? It will cause endless flamewars. Yvain’s recipe, on the other hand, is relatively uncontroversial.
As far as I can see, it’s uncontroversial because it doesn’t add any information in the first place, compared to just including the norm in question when describing something as contrarian, which takes a similar number of words, less effort and is less subjective.
But I’m not suggesting double contrarian opinions must be better than unrecontructed ones, rather that if they are distinguishable they should have different bottom lines: they shouldn’t just be better arguments for the same thing. We see this in the race example: modern genetics recognises very different ethnic distributions to those of classical racialist science, or modern derivations thereof.
I think the post was a guideline to help you catch yourself when you write the bottom line of your position for signaling reasons (contrarian or meta-contrarian). If you never experience that problem, more power to you. I do have it and the post was helpful to me.
Hah, I’m sure I do, I guess the point then is that just because your position is counter-revolutionary, doesn’t mean you haven’t adopted it out of rebelliousness. Um, assuming that revolutionary zeal as a potential source of bottom lines was taken for granted. I think I knew that already, if only through hatred of South Park style antagonistic third way-ism, and so have spent these last few responses training on straw.
Why do you want to define “genuine meta-contrarianness” based on correctness/merit? It will cause endless flamewars. Yvain’s recipe, on the other hand, is relatively uncontroversial.
As far as I can see, it’s uncontroversial because it doesn’t add any information in the first place, compared to just including the norm in question when describing something as contrarian, which takes a similar number of words, less effort and is less subjective.
But I’m not suggesting double contrarian opinions must be better than unrecontructed ones, rather that if they are distinguishable they should have different bottom lines: they shouldn’t just be better arguments for the same thing. We see this in the race example: modern genetics recognises very different ethnic distributions to those of classical racialist science, or modern derivations thereof.
I think the post was a guideline to help you catch yourself when you write the bottom line of your position for signaling reasons (contrarian or meta-contrarian). If you never experience that problem, more power to you. I do have it and the post was helpful to me.
Hah, I’m sure I do, I guess the point then is that just because your position is counter-revolutionary, doesn’t mean you haven’t adopted it out of rebelliousness. Um, assuming that revolutionary zeal as a potential source of bottom lines was taken for granted. I think I knew that already, if only through hatred of South Park style antagonistic third way-ism, and so have spent these last few responses training on straw.