I was going to make a joke about how philosophers pretend metaphysics is a serious subject, but if you go to your local bookstore you’ll find that it’s actually about holistic healing crystals. Then I realized there aren’t any bookstores anymore. Also, no healing crystals.
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In favor of this theory is that the former fundamentalists joined the Echo Culture War that started about a decade ago, so it was natural for the New Atheists to join the same war on the opposite (SJ) side.
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There’s been less interest in the obvious fact that fundamentalism suddenly imploded than I think it deserves.
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That seems true. I wonder if the cycle length for isms in the connected world is now shorter. Does everything have to get to its own ridiculous maximum quickly and publicly?
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Yes, that seems right!
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Tbh not sure about fundamentalist Christianity in USA, I guess I’ve thought mainly about fundamentalist Islam which still has some totemic power in UK press, but feels like it’s over.
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Maybe, sorry if obvious, a political or religious ism is a model or simulation of utopia, and our connected world is like a faster computer that can run this simulation ever faster, and show that it doesn’t work.
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I wonder what this means for us in the future? Will these ideological storms become less frequent, or will they be more intense but over faster? Will fewer people die proving that a new utopia is either a new hell or a new joke? And what will the general long range weather be?
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