via interpretation of matthew re: parables, "it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not"
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which does?
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the micro-scale ideological squabbles of the past couple years
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"social justice" went from a fearsome enemy to an impotent joke. they can't play the game anymore
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I'd been saying for a while they couldn't keep pushing or the pendulum would swing harder
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it swung
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John Brunner novels seem like the closest fiction to this moment to me - Shockwave Rider esp
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the combination of the absurdist politics, the fragmented filter bubbles, the chaos of the Net
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@alicemazzy@puellavulnerata Trump is the right wing showman President from 70's scifi everyone thought would never come or was inevitable -
Dude's straight out of a Norman Spinrad novel
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Fun fact: Dawkin's The God Delusion was published just ten years ago
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hrmm, I mostly drifted out of internet atheist culture around 2000
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it's one of those things that defines itself by what it is not, so it's only interesting...
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...as long as the thing it is not looms large, or seems to in the minds of participants
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and the US christian right has loomed far less large since the end of the Bush Era
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