13. (Side note: both @MonicaBPotts & @zunguzungu say I should include Second Great Awakening in this genealogy of ideas).
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@HeerJeet panic in America so often consolidates around children and innocence - Anita BryantThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet, what share of people not getting vaccines are "anti-vaxxers" talking to media? A vanishingly small share.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Please Storify this. I would like to share a single link on FB and elsewhere.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Thought provoking, but you must go back to American Puritanism. Emerson was an offshoot of that. Puritans believed their unique, -
@HeerJeet individual relationship with God gave them an elite status, above the masses. Emphasis on uniqueness, individual, special status.
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24. Of course, the secessionist impulse of Thoreau & Emerson had moral roots: need to reject social order that tolerated slavery.
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@HeerJeet The sanctimonious exceptionalism that is rampant in an atomized culture.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Some anti-vaxxers are less ideological than that: they don't trust the gov't that gives us post offices, the DMV, tainted meatThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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