2/ the woke gospel is not so much "do this and your soul will be in good shape", but "DON'T BE CAUGHT doing the opposite, or you will suffer socially". This is not the same class of values.) anyway, it occurs to me that the decline in the former, and the replacement w latter >
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3/ drives so much of the craziness and the trigger happiness we see in the Great aWokening. To exaggerate to make a point, in 1950, or 1850 or 1750 you could accuse a man of not giving enough to charity, or some other sin, and he could, if he was inclined, shrug it off.
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4/ "an honest man's pillow is his peace of mind" "that's between me and God" "I'm comfortable that my Maker understands me"
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5/ But under fully automated luxury terrestrial communism, there is no God, or if there is, she is very small and very far away, and mostly cares about carbon neutrality and refugees. ...so allegations that you once laughed at a joke about non-binary people back in the 1970s >
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6/ is full and complete social death. Having values that are not subject to mob interpretation, and holding yourself out to judgement only by God means not that you can - with great self discipline - force yourself to go against the mob. It means not even CARING about the mob.
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7/ I don't want to portray this as a COMPLETE THEORY OF EVERYTHING. Obviously whisper campaigns were no fun in 1750 either. ...but because there were metrics other than "what is popular", and it was KNOWN that there were, the feedback loop had circuit breakers.
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8/ Today you can complete n loops of the cycle: "I know that he's racist / transphobic / LITERALLY HITLER / once laughed at a joke about Freddie Mercury / believes in HBD ... and he knows I know and he hasn't apologized. And I know he hasn't apologized, called him out AND YET >
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9/ whereas in a system with reference to outside authority, every loop has a resistor in in, forcing - perhaps - deamplification. "I know that he violated a rule ... well, a rule as far as how I read the bible ... and I SUSPECT that he maybe reads the bible the same way, but -"
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10/ counter argument saying that my theory is crap: the religious wars were pretty un fun
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Replying to @MorlockP
My biggest problem with the religious framework I was brought in was that it seemed to be more about punishing Bad People and status jockeying than living well in the community I was in As I’ve gotten older I now more appreciate the intent behind the systems
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I expect that any system, as deployed, is going to suck, because it's implemented on top of people, who are petty, vain, etc. That said, some systems will work somewhat better than others.
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