I think counterculture generally stays engaged in all society, just pursuing a partisan agenda. You can’t save the whales if you don’t fight those who want to eat them.
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Nothing to do with how you eat your eggs?
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It seems to be a concession that these particular social viewpoints are not sustainable under any conditions other than pure cultural isolation.
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There’s certainly a narrative about coming civilizational collapse. This serves to help justify the choice to engage in cultural firewalling—under the assumption that this is the only way to maintain their viewpoint long enough to make it through to the other side.
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“the Benedict Option: communal withdrawal from the mainstream, for the sake of sheltering one’s faith and family from corrosive modernity and cultivating a more traditional way of life...”http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/benedict-option …
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Sort of. It's based on an expectation that progressivism will continue to push into religious areas of concern, outlawing more and more religious behavior. So it's pre-emptive disengagement from certain social and secular spheres. Early retreat, to refocus on spiritual matters.
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It seems to take it a step beyond mere segregation to withdrawal; less apartheid, more Amish
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Yeah, it depends on the flavor of eschatology. This idea seems to be popular in more orthodox branches of Christian thought, which are historically less millennarian. But those branches have also never retreated like this. That was reserved for apocalyptic cults.
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Which tend to lead to situations like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münster_rebellion …
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