I know *a lot* of culturally and intellectually secular people who are adopting religion just to have some semblance of a safety net built on being seen, understood and cared for as an individual rather than just being a diligent taxpayer or someone who constantly upskillshttps://twitter.com/HelloShreyas/status/1287522332890865665 …
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I feel like you are disguising your point in code "overly explicitly/scalably organizing social primates"...or I'm just sort of dumb;)
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I'm trying to avoid misinterpretation, but maybe just making myself hard to read. What I mean is that people are working with a lot of social animal hardware that evolved in small groups, and we're prone to think we can ignore that stuff to create material solutions that scale
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I don't think this is solvable with either "community" or "religion". - People need to move for jobs (and "education") enough that even extended families don't stick together in a socially satisfying way. - Replacement-religions have voluntary membership, thus they can't extract%
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much from their members to support their less-lucky fellows who are socially strangers. However, there are a few ways to build these on a basis that makes walking-away less common: * filter membership based on persistent traits; * provide something else of value. %
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