My (Autistic) Grand Unified Theory of How We Got Here
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
archetypal features of fascist movements—things like “nostalgia for a purer, mythic, often rural past; cults of tradition and cultural regeneration … the universalizing of some groups as authentically national, while dehumanizing all other groups … anti-modernism; fetishized patriarchal masculinity.”
Laura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
There is a collective and intergenerational harm that has been done by religion, there is no denying that. But in our search to disentangle from the traumas of both our historical cultures and faiths, we have failed to replace the most important aspects of them.
Instead of finding new sacred places to hold community and rites of passage, we have... See more
Instead of finding new sacred places to hold community and rites of passage, we have... See more
Why are We Obsessed with Individual Identity and Labels?
The social standard this culture offers is one of controlled, placated solitude. Its narrative often insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to ever become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off, retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of talk therapy and Notion templates, and emerge a... See more
rayne fisher-quann • no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone
It is distinct from other expressions of Christianity in that it is political and seeks political domination. The writer Katherine Stewart puts the matter clearly: “It does not seek to add another voice to America’s pluralistic democracy, but to replace our foundational democratic principles and institutions with a state grounded on a particular
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