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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However, without a genuine alternative religion, populist revolts against this secular pseudoreligion will always be incoherent and weak
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The increasing radicalization of the liberal religion (its Puritan-ization, so to speak) at the hands of inter-sectional race and gender theorists makes the shallow adherence and hypocrisy of its elite believers ever more obvious
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It was much easier to be a upper middle class member in good standing with the dogma of the church of Liberalism in 2008 than it is in 2018, when your preferred choices in housing, schools, and even basic identity are defined as the foundations of oppression
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I'm not sure I agree. The shift of liberal rhetoric to race and gender makes it easier, in many ways, to be a rich adherent. These people are largely insulated (by their wealth) from the adverse impact of liberal doctrine on schools/housing.
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The section of society that's breaking away from liberalism is the lower middle/upper working class
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Partly because this is the group that's got the most at stake in the preservation of traditional norms (since for them it means the difference between sinking into lumpenprole despair vs staying afloat) and partly because they're the ones most screwed over by schools/housing
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