"Is Religion Inevitable?" - Richard Dawkins Reveals All
Is white privilege the modern day Original Sin?
How is mass denial about the truth of gender, any different from Catholic transubstantiation?
Is woke culture today's dogmatic religious mob?
Join me and Dr. Peter Boghossian as we explore these questions and more in another episode of The Poetry Of Reality.
I hadn’t heard of the substitution hypothesis but sounds similar conceptually to what Nietzsche talked about with the death of God but that the affect would be substituting one delusion for another instead of resulting in moral atrophy.
This made me wonder if perhaps mass delusion is simply a human constant and what changes are belief systems and that things have always been this way more or less throughout human societies and we are just better enabled by technology and surveillance to see the craziness of our world unfold in real time. I’ve always wondered what an iPhone would capture if we could travel back in time...
When you read a book like ‘Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,’ and then peruse social media and see what most of us give our time and money to in this life that is the impression you walk away with-that we are sadly light years away from humans collectively reaching a more ideal rational and compassionate world that people like Dawkins and Sagan have poetically argued their whole lives for.
The „Woke Mind Virus“ (WOMIV20 ;)) infects only people who‘s minds are not strong enough to think for themselves. The fact that „woke“ has become such a successful memeplex, unfortunately, is evidence that mindfulness and free thinking is on the decline in Western societies. Is this an inevitability, or can it be reversed?