Yeah I guess my feelings are more anecdotal, which is not the kind of reasoning this community prefers. I feel very passionate about this topic and have a lot of friends with what seem to be unhealthy relationships to spirituality.
I appreciate your criticisms and I think I’ll do more research. Sometimes I feel like with large-scale social phenomenon the really significant things go on in the “imaginary”, hard to define space.
It’s interesting what you say about a traveler’s diary through a place unfamiliar, and therefore (of course) unhelpful. It’s also int...
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I’ve enjoyed what I read from the community here, but I do understand how my post isn’t what they’re looking for.
I really liked this post! It's easy to let one's mind run on these things but you have a very level headed and rigorous thinking process.
I thought the identification of these three niches was especially incisive:
"selection will turn up other similarly-successful patterns that can at least establish separate niches — perhaps productivity and get-rich-quick vibes, alt-right reactionary language, or radical nurturing/acceptance."
Rather than focusing on any one specific cultural manifestation this seems to take a step towards looking at the latent model of th... (read more)