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.
Soon we will only have the nuclear. This is how posadism wins.
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart
The same amount of property ownership is going on. It’s just increasingly owned by a landlord instead of the people living there. That’s not an improvement.
Ugh the death of the nuclear family was a small blip of hope in this hell world but you’re right; it’s just the death of the family part not the nuclear part. We are more nuclear if anything…
I don’t want to come off the wrong way in this thread; the nuclear family structure is shit and we should always strive towards more communal and egalitarian relations. I’m just worried what we’re getting in its place is just as far from that goal. Same patriarchal structure, just with more precarity.
Or maybe I’m wrong, Idk I’m just here to stoke a struggle session.
Cultural Marxism is taking root
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.
At my loneliest I’ve considered going to a Quaker meetinghouse. I bet you’re right
Something something opiate of the masses.
People take the opiate to self medicate an existing problem.
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.
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.
