I don’t really buy any structural or economic determinist accounts of the Great Awokening. It happened because determined activists kept pushing an ideological agenda for three decades and drove out those who would constrain them. That’s it.
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Of course nothing is unaffected by structural and economic conditions. Rejecting deterministic accounts just means foregrounding the conscious agency of specific actors driven largely by ideas.
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I think the vast majority of them genuinely believed they were doing good, and on the Right Side of History etc.
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However, I disagree with Wes. I think the war in Iraq and the 2008 definitely helped undermine belief in liberalism (not political liberalism in the US sense but The Liberal Order).
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Sophomoric. Obviously things have antecedents, the question is whether that’s the right layer of analysis. Obviously there’s a neurochemical account of the French Revolution, but it usually isn’t helpful in actually understanding the phenomenon, it’s too far down the stack.
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Wait. You accept the premise that something happened?
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