Important essay on "mass movements", frustration, ineffectiveness, and modernity. Long but worth it.https://samzdat.com/2017/06/28/without-belief-in-a-god-but-never-without-belief-in-a-devil/#more-25969 …
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Crude TLDR: unfulfilled ppl seek meaning by joining movements devoted to endlessly useless "action" against vague enemies.
Sound familiar? And don't think I am just outgroup bashing SJWs, this concept applies just as well to libertarians, alt right, etc.
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Alt-right, yes, but libertarians are not much into action, against vague enemies or not. Libertarians are mostly into posturing
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Yes, exactly. The piece is on "mass movements" which claim to be righting some wrong, but exist merely to posture so members feel meaning
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