this helped clarify a dynamic for me. in the same way there's a "god-shaped hole," there are "X-shaped holes" for X a bunch of deep, fundamental concepts like sin, and any sufficiently mature ideology eventually adapts to fill these holes one way or the otherhttps://twitter.com/cognitivicta/status/1188178839949602816 …
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this produces a blindspot where you become unable to acknowledge sins that you haven't been able to classify as whiteness, patriarchy, etc. e.g. emotional manipulation and abuse by women (unless they're white! then you can use "white feminism")
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we might talk in terms of there being a "concept economy," and of ideologies competing to satisfy demand for concepts like "a concept of sin" and "a concept of virtue"
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"concept economy" raises the question: where is the emerging demand for genuinely new concepts (not just old concepts that were taken off the market) and what do people need those new concepts for?
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Aye. I have first-hand experience of this phenomenon from speaking to some friends whom I didn't contact for a long time.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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