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This was a great read. There was a series focusing on the underlying problem driving people to seek these types of communities - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=
by sophrocyne 5y ago
This was a great read.
There was a series focusing on the underlying problem driving people to seek these types of communities - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY
The series touched on Gnosticism, and how it developed into future philosophies - even evolving into the foundation of the Nazi belief system. We’re at a point where, due to a wholesale rejection of religion, we’ve thrown the baby (practical wisdom traditions) out with the bath water (improbable metaphysical axioms)
The author also touches on the notion of a metaverse, and I’ve been writing on the subject as well. This vision of a “metaverse”, as the author alludes to, is one that is not divorced from reality but perpendicular to it. It could be a great thing, or a digital hell.
We live in weird times, and collectively are in dire need of wisdom.
- mensetmanusman 5y ago“ We’re at a point where, due to a wholesale rejection of religion, we’ve thrown the baby (practical wisdom traditions) out with the bath water (improbable metaphysical axioms) “ Might want to consider our bubble though, the percentage of non-religious in the world is actually decreasing (due to a number of demographic trends).
- sophrocyne 5y agoIt's a fair point - Especially when you consider that modern nationalism and political ideology is a religion unto itself.