hahaha I love the idea of people making rational decisions
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I recall in William James' Variety of Religious Experiences, he starts with "the religion of healthy-mindedness" (basically normies with no deep spiritual leanings or introspective tendencies) and dismisses them quickly to move on to more "interesting" angsty varieties.
yeah he thinks the “religion of healthy-mindedness” is the religion of his time so he’s more interested in the people it doesn’t work for
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I got the sense he thought a life full of peak experiences and spiritual questing was somehow a much deeper religious experience, which I found a persuasive argument at the time (this was 20y ago so I've forgotten the book). Now I'm intrigued by the depth of "healthy mindedness"
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Hence my fascination with mediocrity. A story that kinda half gets at what I'm sniffing around is Father Sergius, a sort of indictment of the self-consciously examined life in favor of the unexamined mediocre one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Sergius …
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