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The church mention reminded me of this article on the pre-Soviet Russian intelligentsia: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/suicide-of-the-liberals https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/suicide-of-the-l... They lived in meat Twitter a hundred years ago.