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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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/ …6 replies 2 retweets 31 likesShow this thread -
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Maybe atheism won deeply, wiping out its purpose and crystals as a collateral casualty.
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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 …1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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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Replying to @Meaningness @slatestarcodex
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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“In future, every ideology will have hegemonic memetic power for fifteen minutes”
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