"Religion" is an orientation you can take towards just about anything. To take X as a religion means to orient towards X as a primary source of the things religions provide: meaning, community, ritual, etc. So if you get those from SV then SV is your religion.https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1138153859098992640 …
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When you look out at the world asking "what are people taking as their religions" you get all sorts of answers back: fandoms, social media, ideologies, video games. Unfortunately most of these are terrible religions. E.g. they're mostly for young childless people, not families.
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Riffing off a recent SSC post, most modern religions-in-this-sense have been selected memetically, not culturally. They're collections of viral sticky memes that people are drawn to but that's very different from actually promoting long-term individual and group flourishing.
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Highly relevant @0x49fa98 thread:https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1081292943720235008 …
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