Monday, June 6, 2016

Hypothesis/Query: Decadence Essentially the Opposite of Independence?

First, I need a single word that refers to the state of being independent of excessive oversight and of taking responsibility for your own actions both prospectively and morally.

I then suppose: is decadence the opposite of this virtue? Of relaxing into slavery and disdaining responsibility? Seems to be. What do you think?


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5 comments:

  1. Grotesque BodyJune 6, 2016 at 5:49 PM

    I don't know if it helps, but lately I've been thinking about adapting Taleb's "fragile/robust/antifragile" to "naive/?/antinaive", where I associate naivety very closely with decadence, dependence, slavery etc. Naivety is the state of having lost one's epistemological competence.

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  2. AlrenousJune 6, 2016 at 5:59 PM

    I do like the idea of antinaievite. ? = skeptical. I'd prefer the names gullible/skeptical/antigullible. Antigullibility is combat epistemology - walk into a propaganda crossfire, walk out with the truth.

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  3. Grotesque BodyJune 6, 2016 at 9:09 PM

    Antifragility = things that gain from disorder
    Antinaivete/antigullibility = things that gain from disaster

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  4. UnknownJune 13, 2016 at 10:43 AM

    The opposite of decadent is cadent.

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  5. Grotesque BodyJune 13, 2016 at 5:37 PM

    @NBS

    You can do better than playing with morphology.

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