We’re as atomized and alienated as ever, but now we also can’t afford to buy a house or raise kids. Libs will celebrate this.
Ugh, just imagine how much less stressful raising kids would be if it were a collective obligation over like a bunch of people that cared about one another.
I’m predicting a rise in church attendance over the next few decades, especially those new age cult-lite churches like Hillsong. People are desperate for community.
Not gonna lie, sometimes I think leftists in the US should just start building churches, but that teach about Marx and class struggle instead of Jesus. I think it could be a way to fight back against alienation and get people organized and militant in a way that is already familiar to our culture.
Like, just imagine if there was a place in your neighborhood that was a place where you could go and make friends doing fun activities, get free food or stuff like that if you’re struggling financially, but instead of having weekly sermons about the bible or whatever had classes where you could learn about marx and stuff like that.
A dozen or so episodes back, the chapos theorized Mormonism is the only religion in America that has enough sense of community (and land/property) to become a serious political power in a the event of a general collapse.
Protestantism will be more like barbarous tribes.
No idea what the Catholics will do.
As an ex-mormon living in Utah, I think that would be the case 10 years ago, but maybe not so much anymore because the church is starting to lose membership and the mormon population is becoming less concentrated due to in-migration from other parts of the country/world in the more urban parts of the Utah.
Something something opiate of the masses.
People take the opiate to self medicate an existing problem.
At my loneliest I’ve considered going to a Quaker meetinghouse. I bet you’re right
Cultural Marxism is taking root
