orthodoxy

What if the world changes, and yesterday's orthodoxy is tomorrow's heresy? This used to happen in the old Soviet Union, all the time.

It has become a bit of a orthodoxy among the consumer social startup crowd to do mobile first and web second. Sorry, but that is hubris, plain and simple.

The orthodoxy at that time was that there was no money in search. Accordingly nobody wanted to be a search engine and everyone tried to be a portal.

That was the orthodoxy for 40 years and it got us nowhere, because the construction metaphor is fundamentally wrong.

This article exists because it's accepted orthodoxy that London is the capital of tech and media in Europe.

It's really fast, has minimal boiler plate and supports functional programming without any of the "orthodoxy" of Haskell. That is, you can write a recursive function but also write a for loop.

And I won't be subscribing to your blacklist of Card and other folks who don't buy into the modern orthodoxy. I'm curious though - Communism has been far more harmful to the world than opposition to gay marriage.

A lot of people are heavily invested in the old orthodoxy and react accordingly. Fructose is a carbohydrate, but in any but small quantities it is metabolically a fat.

A small group of people managed to make it orthodoxy and in the intervening years very few of the supposed benefits have materialised. In the meantime the same arguments that it is pie-in-the-sky have persisted and events have supported them.

That's the same kind of zero-tolerance orthodoxy-enforcement that drives censorship or war-making. Look at the "enemies" language OKCupid uses!

Is it simply the triumph of free-market orthodoxy and a tacit acceptance that to be a consumer today one must subject oneself to this sort of rapaciousness?

For those who think this is going to be an anti-government regulation, libertarian orthodoxy type article, here's the tl;dr: "government regulators who have forced more competition"

The era of hierarchy-driven, keyword-heavy, colored-ribbons-in-your-textook orthodoxy seems past its peak. More people are talking about composition being a better design principle than inheritance.

It's ironic he refers to "Western orthodoxy" as being strictly anti-paradox, as traditional Christian theology is full of official paradoxes; a major example would be the doctrine that Jesus is simultaneously fully human and fully divine. Many were declared anathema for refusing this and other paradoxical doctrines. So rather than Western orthodoxy being unaware of paradox, it has insisted on it.

The reason Benedict removed these excommunications was to restore peace with the ultra-traditionalists who reject the Second Vatican Council, in much the same way Catholics have been working to restore peace with other Christians who do not accept the Catholic orthodoxy. Such ecumenism is usually viewed as progress, but anti-Catholic critics have continually tried to present this as if Benedict condones Holocaust denial, which is disingenuous, as he has condemned those views and suspended Williamson's episcopal authority until he recants.