i don't know how quickly this is happening but i hope on some reasonable timescale we're going to transition from helping each other explore our feelings etc. to helping each other find ways to make money, collaborate on projects, etc. that feel alive, enriching, wholesome
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I have a dream about opening a metamodern wellness center focused on self-improvement, where you can get therapy, a gym, contemplative and spiritual education etc.
A 21st century Gymnasium in the ancient Greek sense. A place to pursue arete.
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Would prob only work in a few large American cities, but imagine a place with a community of self-improovers and coaches and contrarian weirdos with the social/financial pull to host workshops and seminars with ppl like Vervaeke
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this is the sort of idea that i am both excited by and also like “hmm really asking to turn into a cult tho”
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“This sounds like a cult” is a bunch of dumb words that people say to prevent you from doing anything really good for your community
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i have been in, depending on how you count it, somewhere between 1 and 2.5 cults; the experience took years to come to terms with, and i personally know people who were in even worse cults much longer who took even longer to recover from their experiences
super valid concern imo . '
when it comes to spiritual organization, seems like a mine field . '
i like the idea of a gym in the sense that it's polyphonic . many ways to gym . ' (ironically, the music tends to be monotonic)
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the kinda thing i've been envisioning is explicitly non-hyper-urban . '
exposure to complex organic ecosystems is healing ime and in the data . '
not to retract my support for hyper-urban ideas such as yours, just what i've been tuning into . '
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Do you think there are any reliable anti-cult mechanisms?
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Sorry. Didn’t mean to imply that actual cults aren’t a thing, and are usually/always bad
But there’s also a level of enthusiasm and belief in community practices which is Good, but which people are programmed lately to sneer at with the cult label, IMHO
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