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Auster comments that changing the categories degrades their effectiveness. Categories are there to organize and make society work. Take away categories and you take away structure.
In programming languages, structures are used to organize
data and are in effect categories. Category theory in math
does the same thing. Categories provide structure in the
world of ideas and of thinking beings. Without categories
we can’t process.
Humans to program a computer need to use categories. They need the same to program a society and for the program to keep running. Traditionalism maintains the boundaries of the categories. This lets the categories do their job.
When the bounds of categories are worn down by exceptions, they lose their ability to do their job. The result is society collapses.
People then turn to Islam or fascism or communism for strict categories. Each of these offers strict categoriesand are popular in times of uncertainty and insecurity. They offer a respite from modernity. The war on traditionalism by liberalism leads to even more rigid category enforcement when the result is communism, fascism or Islam.
Liberalism has been at war with categories and the facts that are the walls of those categories. Liberalism has beaten down the categories and the result is that society doesn’t work as well. The labor force participation rates of white men and black men were 80 percent in 1965. Now white men are at 74 percent and black men at 66 percent.
