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Oh I might not get what you're saying at all. I just meant like, for example, the wholesale throwing away of religion (or kinds of government, whatever) seems

• jerf 11y ago
  In this particular case I'm thinking more culture-level, or the operating system of a civilization. Which, as I'm being a bit deliberately elliptical, is not necessarily something you'd be able to easily extract from that message. Religions are carriers of these things, but in this case I am thinking more of what they are carrying rather than the religions themselves. As with many human things, it's all a big mess that can't be cleanly segmented out.... On topic, "the need for privacy" is one of these things. Many have heralded a generation who has no need of privacy, but then, as we all live in the "global village", we are slowly groping back towards some of the very same ideals of privacy that villages used to have, for instance, or at least I'd contend that over time in lots of little ways people tend to rediscover that just chucking the entire idea overboard wasn't smart. That's not a religion, nor directly a hot-button issue. And should we ever decide that totalitarianism sounds totally awesome and we should totally do it, a whole bunch of people will have the opportunity to rediscover the virtues of privacy. "Yay."