Harold Bloom is right & Moldbug is wrong. The "American Faith" of a unitarian antinomian gnosticism is rooted in the 18th century & not the 17th. "Blaming the Puritans" is its foundation, & the "ultracalvinist hypothesis" is completely wrong.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
Some good points here, but just as a reminder, Moldbug didn't associate progressivism with puritanism in order to "blame puritans", but in order to discredit progressivism to "open-minded progressives"
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Replying to @anomalyuk
Yeah, but it's under their own paradigm of puritanism being bad- he's operating in their symbolic universe, of the 18th century
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
Right. The badness of puritanism is a grounding assumption of the conversation, not a conclusion. And the question of 17th vs 18th Century puritanism not terribly important.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
Well, maybe you're not an "open-minded progressive"?
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Replying to @anomalyuk
I understand that he tailored his argument to suit them- but it doesnt excuse the followers who bemoan "damn prots" for everything.
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Using his atheist arguments in a Catholic vs Protestant dispute is indeed a bit weird.
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