1. People point out that Harry Potter is traditional and right-wing. It is set in a boarding school, it’s aristocratic, concerns magic, and is obsessed with bloodlines(!). Yet, it is beloved by the liberal left. Why?
Yes. What I call technocratic liberalism is a secular religion. This is why I support “traditional” religion. I think humans make up religions whatever they do, but the ones made up on the spot tend to be awful. The old ones have survival value, although are occasionally silly.
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@nntaleb 's Lindy effect. My own convictions are more directly doxastic (i.e. Christianity is a true revealed religion); yet even before my conversion, I preferred it to any modern substitute for similar reasons. -
Yes, my thinking is informed by Taleb & John Gray—& by the philosophes, Voltaire thought his servants should believe lest they slit his throat! Practically, I’m torn between Xianity (culturally made me) & a quasi-Buddhist pantheistic approach—couldn’t be culturally Buddhist.
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