Very interesting series of tweets on "the modern Christian Right" from @meaningnesshttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/716730290715013121 …
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Replying to @RichardABrookes
Of course, I see it in the context of "American Malvern"-Schaeffer represents the breakaway of theistic prods from that secularized movement
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"American Malvern" meaning https://nickbsteves.wordpress.com/foundational-readings/american-malvern/ … , 1942 Time article cited by Moldbug in Gentle Introduction pt. 1 http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.de/2009/01/gentle-introduction-to-unqualified.html …
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Replying to @RichardABrookes
But
@Meaningness 's central point is drawing a parallel with "Hippiedom". That is a more difficult thing to put into place2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichardABrookes
A naive NRx view would be that hippies were just impatient progressives ahead of the mainstream. That seems... an inadequate description
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But proto-hippies existed long before the 60s. Before the 1860s. https://improprietaryinfluence.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/a-slice-of-1850s-boston/ …
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Replying to @RichardABrookes
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@Steve_Sailer has also looked at where they came from http://takimag.com/article/the_original_nature_boys_steve_sailer … , citing http://www.hippy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=243 … on 19thC Germans2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @RichardABrookes
Which again loops back via Dr Benedict Lust to his naturopathy, associated with the hydrotherapy of my Thomas Nichols story
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But then Chapman's point may be less about where they came from, than why they flourished in that time and place. The "Crisis of meaning"
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@RichardABrookes Right! Although tracking the history helps understand the logic.
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