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The question for me is: Is a mutually shared narrative required for a society to maintain cohesion and engagement at scale? If the assumption is "yes" then the
by AndrewKemendo 5y ago
The question for me is: Is a mutually shared narrative required for a society to maintain cohesion and engagement at scale?
If the assumption is "yes" then the challenge becomes whether the narrative is actually epistemologically solid enough to bear scrutiny from all angles - something I don't actually believe exists.
I think in the US the narrative since the Colonies formed, has been something like "Land of Opportunity" which a healthy proportion of the US and world doesn't believe in, and realistically only some segment of the world population did believe in for a short period after WWII.
- em-bee 5y agoif we want to maintain cohesion and engagement, we must have something that binds us together. current and past mainstream religions are not capable of achieving this. they were not meant to. they did achieve it for the society at the time they were founded, but the world has moved on and religions stagnated. and it's not just society at a national level. we live in a global society. our interconnections worldwide are to deep to be able to separate societies by nation. a religion today must be capable of creating cohesion and engagement on a global scale. it must bear scrutiny from all angles indeed, from every corner of this planet. if we can't find a religion that is capable of achieving this, then indeed we may be better off without any religion.