I'm reminded of one of Ian Banks' Culture novels, where one infinitely rich society has two teams of people - one putting up monorail pylons, and one tearing them downhttps://twitter.com/FOX5Atlanta/status/1204354713396768768 …
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this hadn't occurred to me but now that you mention it
I have always strongly disagreed with this and the more I understand the each the more I disagree. I think this is the religious inverse of fedora atheist sneering
I think there are things they both have to address because the subject matter (man) is the same. But that doesn't make Aristotle and Confucius the same thing either.
I don't associate with those types much so I have limited insight
I don't think Nü-rationalism parallels apocalyptic Christianity nearly as closely as Progressivism does, generally. It's not obsessed with sin, for one thing. (The basilisk gets its emotional charge from presenting Angry God as selfish and nearly incomprehensible, compare JHVH)
And the basilisk itself is a weird hiccup, not central to the memeplex.
Religious, certainly. Not necessarily Christian, though: no redemption through sacrifice, for one. I used to formulate LessWrong's central question as "We will create a God, how do we make sure He likes us?"
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