A theory of why Sufism is popular is that it gives its followers pleasurable feelings (spinning in circles causes pleasure). Similarly, it seems like revolution

A theory of why Sufism is popular is that it gives its followers pleasurable feelings (spinning in circles causes pleasure). Similarly, it seems like revolutions gain followers by offering pleasurable feelings too. Forbidden fruits are a great source of pleasure. For example, being attracted to someone of the same sex used to be a forbidden fruit. Then people said that the forbidden fruit is actually OK, and that led to a revolution in civil rights. Right now we have a couple of nascent forbidden fruit revolutions. One is based around becoming stupider, basically: doing psychedelics, believing in magic. The other is based around finding the truth, basically: reading about genetic differences between populations.