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Our current orthodoxies won’t last. They’re brain-dead. Nobody actually believes them. Hardly anyone’s life is improved by them. This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won’t. The people in charge know this, that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive. They’re afraid. They’ve given up persuasion. They’re resorting to force. But it won’t work. When honest people say what’s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker. That’s the iron law of the universe. True things prevail. Where can you still find Americans saying true things? There aren’t many places left, but there are some, and that’s enough. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope. See you soon.
Meh. Ideologies have no natural expiration date. They can last for months, or they can last for millennia. Imagine watching Christianity rise to power in late antiquity and thinking "it won't last, it's too braindead, no one actually believes this..."
True, nothing lasts forever, but you're dealing with a timescale of 2,000 years, not 20 or even 200.
A sizable portion of the population is bought into wokeism for life. They will never ever change. The people in their 20s and 30s now who have been permanently indoctrinated with wokeism will play the role that the conservative Moral Majority did in the 80s and 90s. In another decade or two there may (keyword may, it's not guaranteed) be a youth rebellion movement that challenges wokeism, but they will necessarily face resistance from the entrenched power structure.
The problem for you guys, when it comes to a "youth rebellion," is a right-wing one hasn't happened in forever, at least among the West.
Even the shift to the Right of young voters in the '70s and 80's, wasn't because of some great moral turn by Gen Xers (as we see that the height of teen pregnancy, drug use, etc. all happens near the start of the 90's) or rise in racism or sexism or bigotry, but because of bad economic times, plus the conservative movement (previously split between the GOP & Dixiecrats) accepting mostly defeat on the big questions of the 60's and 70's - there would be no resegregation, no putting women back in the home, no repeal of Medicare, and so forth.
The median 18 year old in 1985 was more liberal personally and possibly even politically, than an 18 year old in 1965, it's just the GOP wasn't continuing to fight the fights of the previous generation, as the current GOP and right-wing movement might end up doing.
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It was pretty obvious watching 3rd century christianity that some large portion of these people were true believers. I don’t think this is true for the woke- what wokesters face actual-factual martyrdom? The histrionics about trans genocide are just that- histrionics.
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The christianity of early christians has not that much to do with how it was practiced later.
Well, you can say so, and I can disagree.
Who practices community of goods now?
This is a spectacularly non-central example.
We don't appoint leaders by lot any more, either.
But to answer the question, monastics do.
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