? Oprah is the gnostic pope. Edgy teens are gay, but if they think obvious shit is stupid they're gonna have a Bad Time.
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Replying to @TheIllegit @giantgio and
This is as inane as Phil Greaves coming in here to say Oprah is the pope of the fascist culture industry.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus @giantgio and
Calling everything fascist is bad. Calling some things gnostic is good.
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Replying to @TheIllegit @giantgio and
I already know your stance here, & I'm sure you understand why I think it is idiotic to condemn Oprah for the same heresy as the Cathars, as if there is any obvious continuity there, but you see a continuity, & I think that you hallucinate it.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus @giantgio and
'Gnosticism' is a broad category applied post facto to fairly differentiated groups with some general commonalities. Yeah, if you look at any of the groups in detail, far from Oprah. But some generalities fit.
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Replying to @TheIllegit @giantgio and
"Some generalities fit" "She's its Pope" Right.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus @giantgio and
I would have said "the pope of neo-gnostic self-help spiritualism" or something myself.
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Replying to @TheIllegit @giantgio and
So in this schema, America is & has always been "Gnostic" & Oprah is not really different than Trump in this.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus @giantgio and
No, I think the neo or quasi gnostic strain of American spirituality is a fairly late-developing phenomenon.
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Y u fight like dispic.twitter.com/EJDfS9B4lO
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Replying to @giantgio @TheIllegit and
I find the irony of pupating douthats criticizing their future emergence so hilarious that I must share it.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus @TheIllegit and
Will we all eventually become the archetype of douthat? :(
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