Subj : Re: Politics echo
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Tue May 17 2022 10:39:58

 Sp> I s'pose this is a little like splitting hairs... but the wacky woke
 Sp> people, and poisonous politically correct is more like the new
 Sp> evangelism than religon. They're pushing that agenda hard, but there's a
 Sp> lot more diversity in the groups that do it.  I feel the major problem
 Sp> with them is that their happy to persecute publicly anyone that doesn't
 Sp> agree with them.  In some ways they seem to have also picked up from the
 Sp> old political arguments, socialism vs capitalism, neo-nazi types...
 Sp> giving those so inclined something to "believe" in and push the barrow
 Sp> giving them something to fill their time with and feel self important
 Sp> about.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Spec

When your world-view is based on beliefs rather than concrete evidence, you kind of have to persecute.  Your tribal identity and power and social standing, predicates on these beliefs, is at threat if people notice things to the contrary.  Your narrative about how the world was formed, how it should be developed.

It is evangelism, but that how new religions spread.  A new moral order, a new way of framing things to overturn the corrupt older one.  The promise of salvation, of a better world.  Cleansing the world of old sins.  Shunning the heretics, who obviously don't believe because they are corrupt of soul.  Getting people to renunciate their heresies.

If you read history, you'll find in older societies (say Classical Greece, Rome, Middle Ages) political ideologies didn't exist.  There were political ideas, but people don't structure ideologies.  Machiavelli just wrote about Florentine politics.  Religion filled that instinct, but with that gone, politics and "big ideas" replaced it.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

.