Goldenpath
16d ago
I'd agree that for better or worse the 'capital T' Traditional world is dying. I think an important factor that's often overlooked is that the ubiquitous preindustrial peasant sustenance economies that dominated almost the entire globe 200 years ago are gone entirely or radically diminished today in Europe, America, East Asia and increasingly the developing world as well. Most old religious and cultural traditions were made by and for people who lived in in societies that were arranged very differently from ours, and these traditions served the needs and aspirations of the people who lived in these types of societies.
Obviously there are differences; Rome isn't Babylon, which isn't the kingdom of Mercia, which isn't the Delhi Sultanate etc. However, there are some very broad comonalities in premodern agricultural societies that dont apply to today. We aren't as subject to the seasons or time of day for our livelihoods anymore. Our lives arent determined by the will of a military aristocracy. Corvee labor isnt really a thing. I feel that if the spirit of our traditions is to continue into the future, it will need to confront and interact with the world we have, not the one our ancestors did.
For a tradition to survive it needs to retain its core foundational ideas, while simultaneously adapting its teachings and doctrine to the industrial world and really decide what they want to integrate vs discard. Are vtubers haram? Maybe. Is launching a nuclear war moral in X or Y circumstance? Maybe not. But I think that having these sorts of ready made answers would be a massive boon for most religions, even if the rulings are arbitrary or rely on esoteric theology.
Goldenpath
2mo ago
I instinctively pictured the boss from Office Space.
Goldenpath
3mo ago
I believe it's from Fabius Bile, Clonelord.
Goldenpath
7mo ago
A small rule that I personally feel improved my editing: all adverbs and adjectives must justify their own existence. I find that they sneak into otherwise neat sentences and clog up descriptions which a reader's own imagination could fill out just fine.
Goldenpath
11mo ago
I'm generally pro nuclear and think it should be persued as an energy source, but I recall a friend who was anti nuclear saying that there are issues with long term storage of nuclear waste. I'm not by any means an expert, but if we ramped up nuclear production could this be a long term problem?
Goldenpath
1yr ago
Reminds me of this old warhammer ad. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=du0emDgJ-L4&pp=ygUYd2FyaGFtbWVyIHR2IGNvbW1lcmNpYWwg
I know a woman well who's is in her 60s and very much a NYT liberal. She attends a Unitarian derived Church and even she invariably finds the speakers there to be some combination preachy, dry, up their own asses, or just plain cringe. I suspect that when the thing that unites you is politics more so than religion, that religion will inevitability appear fake, because it is.
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