You know that moviemaking trick, I dunno what it's called but you stack two kinds of lenses and zoom in with one while zooming out with the other, so the focal subject stays in one place and the background seems to move?
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Mutual societies, Masonic-type clubs and other organizations of what
@Scholars_Stage recently called democracy as a way of life/self-government (https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1061420430962188289 …) were slowly crowded out and basically dead by 1970. We barely remember them.This Tweet is unavailable. -
Churches a) had a special advantage under the 1st amendment, so lasted longer, b) allied w/were taken over by social activism, which gave them a new set of purposes while undermining their old ones. I think the association of "what we've lost" with "faith" is somewhat spurious.
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"Churches are bad, we need more Masonic Lodges" is my favorite hot take right now
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Good dunk, but I'm saying that churches are the surviving remnant -- partly because they're explicitly protected under the constitution -- of a much richer set of institutions that died out. Pre-Roosevelt labor unions would be another example.
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