@mtraven @sarahdoingthing Surprising that it’s still climbing, since the height of satanic panic was 80s
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@mtraven@sarahdoingthing Oh, hmm, only up to 2000: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ritual%2Csatanic+ritual&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Critual%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csatanic%20ritual%3B%2Cc0 … “Cuz satanism’s so passé”—Dandy Warhols1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@mtraven@sarahdoingthing Something I didn’t realize until recently is that early Protestant propaganda was that the Catholic mass was >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@mtraven@sarahdoingthing > literally black magic. This seems to be the ultimate root of most contemporary anti-ritualism. >1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@mtraven@sarahdoingthing > I’m increasingly impressed by the ways in which Protestantism and rationalism, although notionally enemies >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mtraven@sarahdoingthing > since the late 1800s, have profoundly influenced each other (and still do). This has been mostly forgotten.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness this is of course a major current of neoreactionary analysis ;)2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing What should I read besides Moldbug?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness he's the main source of the puritans/protestants = progressives/rationalists meme afaik1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing OK… if you come across others, & is convenient, please let me know… I get it from McMahon, who got it from Charles Taylor >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing > but McMahon doesn’t know anything much about rationality and I suspect Taylor doesn’t either. This is ultra-geeky subject
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@Meaningness sounds like an interesting book, if it ever exists!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Is huge problem that virtually no one has enough background in both rationality & critiques of rationality to write this1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 5 more replies
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