"rootedness" is just "white"
Sure, Danny Kruger. Yell at the kids loudly enough and they’ll all turn into obedient little imaginary Victorians. I really do want to see you try
![“I believe, and I see, actually a desire for some of those small-c conservative values of rootedness, responsibility… honor, duty, Victorian ideas that I think would resonate [with young people] if we conveyed them with authority”, he told the meeting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fwgh5pmcxpaxkacrmxh7vl6x/bafkreiaroi6b3uq7sxir4eoikrcv2htqcbgmrsbrjdapit5ninfcgtloqi)
September 30, 2024 at 10:02 AM
"rootedness" is just "white"
The way Vance likes to go on about tradition and rootedness is funny because he's repeatedly demonstrated himself to be a completely hollow man who will say or do absolutely anything for his own career.
i love how utterly deranged this screed by the Vice President is
there's so much to unpack here
americanmind.org/salvo/americ...
there's so much to unpack here
americanmind.org/salvo/americ...
American Statesmanship for the Golden Age
We should demand that our people, whether first- or tenth-generation Americans, have gratitude for this country.
americanmind.org
August 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The way Vance likes to go on about tradition and rootedness is funny because he's repeatedly demonstrated himself to be a completely hollow man who will say or do absolutely anything for his own career.
after all, Labour didn't surge during the GE17 campaign because of Corbyn or Lansman's intellectual rootedness
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
after all, Labour didn't surge during the GE17 campaign because of Corbyn or Lansman's intellectual rootedness
"Rootedness" is uh, certainly a choice of words.
June 26, 2026 at 6:16 PM
"Rootedness" is uh, certainly a choice of words.
Stay in the old country if you want to be the kind of place that every young person with a future gets the fuck out of as soon as possible but there is ~tradition~ and ~rootedness~. The country my ancestors fought for is and was a cosmopolitan place.
July 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Stay in the old country if you want to be the kind of place that every young person with a future gets the fuck out of as soon as possible but there is ~tradition~ and ~rootedness~. The country my ancestors fought for is and was a cosmopolitan place.
Honestly I am very proud of this document. The scope and shear rootedness of our resistance to the Gestapo terrorizing and kidnapping our neighbors (so many still unaccounted) can be glimpsed in the details found by cowards infiltrating our places of trust and solidarity.
Along with surveillance of people with Anti ICE signs in Loring Park, court documents describe months of undercover agents attending events in Minneapolis (shown as described by the government):
August 14, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Honestly I am very proud of this document. The scope and shear rootedness of our resistance to the Gestapo terrorizing and kidnapping our neighbors (so many still unaccounted) can be glimpsed in the details found by cowards infiltrating our places of trust and solidarity.
Rootedness, a bottom 5 concept at its worst
March 30, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Rootedness, a bottom 5 concept at its worst
Just taught about the 13th-century origins of this error and its rootedness in medieval anti-Judaism. Here, it is combined with modern antisemitic conspiracy theory.
a surprising number of gentiles online claim that “real” Jews are anti-Zionist and only follow the Torah, whereas “fake” Jews are Zionists who also follow the Talmud and…I’m curious what they think the Talmud is & why this person seems to think Herzl wrote the Talmud in 1897
March 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Just taught about the 13th-century origins of this error and its rootedness in medieval anti-Judaism. Here, it is combined with modern antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Modern psychologists who clocked Trump's sociopathy are grounded in research and simple, straightforward tools like symptom checklists.
As the article notes, the rootedness of this science is also proved by the nearly perfect track record of predicting his behavior based on a sociopath's profile.
As the article notes, the rootedness of this science is also proved by the nearly perfect track record of predicting his behavior based on a sociopath's profile.
June 8, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Modern psychologists who clocked Trump's sociopathy are grounded in research and simple, straightforward tools like symptom checklists.
As the article notes, the rootedness of this science is also proved by the nearly perfect track record of predicting his behavior based on a sociopath's profile.
As the article notes, the rootedness of this science is also proved by the nearly perfect track record of predicting his behavior based on a sociopath's profile.
Always jealous of adults whose parents are still married and living in their childhood home.
The rootedness. Unimaginable.
The rootedness. Unimaginable.
March 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Always jealous of adults whose parents are still married and living in their childhood home.
The rootedness. Unimaginable.
The rootedness. Unimaginable.
Some people would call it rootedness, others would call it suffocation. I oscillate.
April 20, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Some people would call it rootedness, others would call it suffocation. I oscillate.
Usually, when an actor plays a freak you can still spot the feet-on-the-ground professional. Nicolas Cage doesn't give you that rootedness. He's up there in the air, and when you watch him it's a little dizzying—you're not quite sure what's going on. (1989)
August 10, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Usually, when an actor plays a freak you can still spot the feet-on-the-ground professional. Nicolas Cage doesn't give you that rootedness. He's up there in the air, and when you watch him it's a little dizzying—you're not quite sure what's going on. (1989)
It's the noble savage thing, applied to their idea of the average person, warped by their actual distance from them. They see ignorance and call it simplicity. They see parochial bigotry and call it rootedness. They romanticise a caricature of what Heidegger might have called 'authenticity'.
September 18, 2026 at 12:17 PM
It's the noble savage thing, applied to their idea of the average person, warped by their actual distance from them. They see ignorance and call it simplicity. They see parochial bigotry and call it rootedness. They romanticise a caricature of what Heidegger might have called 'authenticity'.
There's another layer too which I've been thinking about relative to cults - which is settler colonial states create a lot of unrooted people seeking rootedness. We're good marks.
February 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
There's another layer too which I've been thinking about relative to cults - which is settler colonial states create a lot of unrooted people seeking rootedness. We're good marks.
The social, the cultural, the economic, the interactional. The immense rootedness of universities in their towns and cities. The connectedness. The embeddedness.
We need a different narrative. We need a different discourse. We need evangelists, not apologists, for higher education.
We need a different narrative. We need a different discourse. We need evangelists, not apologists, for higher education.
May 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The social, the cultural, the economic, the interactional. The immense rootedness of universities in their towns and cities. The connectedness. The embeddedness.
We need a different narrative. We need a different discourse. We need evangelists, not apologists, for higher education.
We need a different narrative. We need a different discourse. We need evangelists, not apologists, for higher education.
Germany's far-right AfD, endorsed by Elon Musk, is going after the Bauhaus school for "deracination... dislocation" and for "avoiding any sign of national rootedness."
June 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Germany's far-right AfD, endorsed by Elon Musk, is going after the Bauhaus school for "deracination... dislocation" and for "avoiding any sign of national rootedness."
Modern people often lament the death of community and pastoral life, rootedness, connection to land, etc. and I think that's real, but a lot of it rides on the presumption that you'll always have enough to eat, reasonable work hours, and access to healthcare.
May 5, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Modern people often lament the death of community and pastoral life, rootedness, connection to land, etc. and I think that's real, but a lot of it rides on the presumption that you'll always have enough to eat, reasonable work hours, and access to healthcare.
The war on rootedness must accelerate
July 29, 2026 at 6:06 AM
The war on rootedness must accelerate
thinking for no particular reason about how biking is 1) super efficient, 2) exponentially cheaper than driving, 3) good for health, 4) increases opportunities for social connection and rootedness, and 5) requires zero interaction with state bureaucracies
February 27, 2026 at 8:42 PM
thinking for no particular reason about how biking is 1) super efficient, 2) exponentially cheaper than driving, 3) good for health, 4) increases opportunities for social connection and rootedness, and 5) requires zero interaction with state bureaucracies
If you’ve been circling the Contemplative Enneagram Summit since I wrote about it, this is the weekend: September 26–27 (starting TOMORROW), live on Zoom, with Russ Hudson opening and Suzanne Stabile closing.
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September 25, 2026 at 2:58 PM
If you’ve been circling the Contemplative Enneagram Summit since I wrote about it, this is the weekend: September 26–27 (starting TOMORROW), live on Zoom, with Russ Hudson opening and Suzanne Stabile closing.
Would it be petty to note that when I wrote a rebuttal to Shellenberger’s lies about homelessness, Tan argued that I had no standing to weigh in because I lacked his deep rootedness in San Francisco as a community?
Anyway, he thinks it’s cool if a teen groyper serves as our first prime minister.
Anyway, he thinks it’s cool if a teen groyper serves as our first prime minister.
The Head of Finance at YC has almost two decades of experience.
Why does Garry Tan feel comfortable letting a few teenagers with ChatGPT control the country’s finances but not his own company’s finances?
Why does Garry Tan feel comfortable letting a few teenagers with ChatGPT control the country’s finances but not his own company’s finances?
February 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Would it be petty to note that when I wrote a rebuttal to Shellenberger’s lies about homelessness, Tan argued that I had no standing to weigh in because I lacked his deep rootedness in San Francisco as a community?
Anyway, he thinks it’s cool if a teen groyper serves as our first prime minister.
Anyway, he thinks it’s cool if a teen groyper serves as our first prime minister.
Knowing my genealogy gives me a historical understanding of my position in the world, but not a sense of connection to any place. I doubt I’m alone among adoptees in finding that a sense of “rootedness” is unavailable to me. 🥚
interesting to listen to this historian on the radio talking about the USA being a “nation of regions” and about people’s sense of connection to their regions. Hits different when you’re an #adoptee who was trafficked from one region to another to solve other people’s problems.
August 22, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Knowing my genealogy gives me a historical understanding of my position in the world, but not a sense of connection to any place. I doubt I’m alone among adoptees in finding that a sense of “rootedness” is unavailable to me. 🥚
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was beautiful and moving. It was also, fundamentally, conservative: a celebration of locality, community, family, heritage, and rootedness.
February 9, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was beautiful and moving. It was also, fundamentally, conservative: a celebration of locality, community, family, heritage, and rootedness.
When you are a middle-class-plus Kentuckian, you follow one of two paths: (1) you become a hobbit and start fetishizing rootedness and "the land" and resenting outsiders, or (2) you realize the ornery, postmodern potential of your stateless, placeless, universally-loathed Scots-Irish forbears.
December 11, 2024 at 2:30 AM
When you are a middle-class-plus Kentuckian, you follow one of two paths: (1) you become a hobbit and start fetishizing rootedness and "the land" and resenting outsiders, or (2) you realize the ornery, postmodern potential of your stateless, placeless, universally-loathed Scots-Irish forbears.
Query: Does anyone have a pdf Toni Morrison's 1984 essay “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation”?
December 19, 2023 at 3:25 PM
Query: Does anyone have a pdf Toni Morrison's 1984 essay “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation”?