Actually, this is some circle of life shit. The cover is basically a deliberate troll of people like me, now. Free publicity. I'm just closing the temporal loop.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1109632996112396289 …
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Replying to @generativist
Idk...yeah, these guys are cocky and caustic, but I think the backlash against New Atheism has gone a touch too far. Hitchens was brilliant, as is Dennett, and Harris is no slouch. (Dawkins off the deep end.) There's nothing wrong with ardent anti-theism.
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I've got problems with some of their arguments, but I'm fearful of a taboo on the Twain/Voltaire-style approach to religion. It's an important counterpoint in the intellectual world to staunch theism, which has a far greater influence, and is no less cocky or evangelical.
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz
IDK what the Twain/Voltaire style is? Any direction on what to read?
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Replying to @generativist
Biting satire and deep anger/disbelief. Twain's story, Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven, and Voltaire's poem about the Lisbon earthquake are two classics in that genre. David Hume's Natural History of Religion is another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Stormfield%27s_Visit_to_Heaven … http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/book/lisbon-earthquake-1755 …
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz
Thanks!
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But basically, this is something I've been a spending a lot of time thinking about lately. How leaders of a specific style attract a following, then don't notice this phase transition that occurs in the space they created.
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I think it's very motivated. Like, "well, I see we're going to a dark place, but I can't push back otherwise they'll move to the other leader." So, there ends up being this...weird collapse. (And it happens to so many subcultures.)
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