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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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      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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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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      What happened to all that holistic woo? It was enormous a decade ago, but seems to have simply dropped out of the culture. I’m sure you can still find it if you look, but it doesn’t have anything like the influence it did.

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      Atheism was huge a decade ago and also vanished. @slatestarcodex argues that it was replaced as a religion by Social Justice, which was a superior product for the same market. I suspect the same thing happened to holistic healing woo? Same demographic.https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/ …

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    4. Andrew Kirby‏ @ajkirby01 9 Dec 2019
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      Maybe atheism won deeply, wiping out its purpose and crystals as a collateral casualty.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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      Yes… ish… when I read the @slatestarcodex, it seemed to me that an alternative explanation is that fundamentalism imploded around the same time. New Atheism was a reaction to fundamentalism. I think fundamentalism collapsed of its own accord, though:https://meaningness.com/countercultures-fail …

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      On that theory, after everyone lost interest in fundamentalism, there wasn’t any purpose for New Atheism, so it also imploded.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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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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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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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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        2. Andrew Kirby‏ @ajkirby01 9 Dec 2019
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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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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 9 Dec 2019
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          Yes, that seems right!

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        1. Andrew Kirby‏ @ajkirby01 9 Dec 2019
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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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        1. Andrew Kirby‏ @ajkirby01 9 Dec 2019
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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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        1. Andrew Kirby‏ @ajkirby01 9 Dec 2019
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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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