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    1. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      Andrew Willard Jones' book made me reconsider a lot of my views about the absolutism of the NRX/neoabsolutism variety. Modern secular thinkers who are trying to come up with a prescriptive model of absolutism as an alternative to Democratic politics tend to apply a Weberian model

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    2. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      backwards and in doing so they ascribe very unrealistic powers to the monarch/sovereign in the part which seem difficult to emulate in the present day without some extremely unpleasant form of authoritarianism

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    3. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      What Jones' book made me think was that a better model to look at are religious Muslim countries where the state is weak on paper but conformity to the imperatives of Islam are very high

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    4. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      Clearly, the sovereign institutions of the state (which in most cases are quite weak) are not compelling obedience to the tenets of religion, rather, it's the other way around

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    5. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      Religion allows a weak state to extract a high degree of control as long as the state is perceived as being aligned with the faith

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    6. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      I think Spandrell is probably the NRX thinker who's thought the most in this direction. But I'm not up to date on the latest nrx stuff so maybe there are others who have given this some thought

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    7. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      My experience interacting with the neoabsolutists on Twitter is that they tend to see religion as merely a set of social norms imposed on a top down basis to serve the interests of the elite

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    8. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      But I think they get this backwards, since in a Muslim country an elite that tried to do this will eventually lose legitimacy (as you see in the case of Turkey)

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      ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

      This explains why the secular pseudoreligion of liberalism is simultaneously powerful and fragile. It's powerful because its imperatives are constantly changing to serve the class interests of the elite. It's fragile, because adherence to it (unlike a true religion) is shallow.

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        2. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

          And as its religious imperatives become increasingly absurd, its self serving nature becomes increasingly obvious and its hold over the general public weakens

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        3. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 11

          However, without a genuine alternative religion, populist revolts against this secular pseudoreligion will always be incoherent and weak

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