Motus Mentis

Mencius Moldbug:

[W]hen we identify progressive secularism as one thing and Protestant Christianity as another, we have basically just walked up to one of the most dangerous intellectual pathogens in Western history, said “how ya doin,” invited it to a wild hot-tub party and promised to deactivate our immune system for the evening. Is this safe epistemology? I think not.

In the wake of poor Greta Thunberg’s horrifying public enthrallment*, and the accelerating religious (yes, religious) hysteria of the Democratic Party, I invite readers to have another look at the critical final transition of Puritanism’s explicitly theistic “errand into the wilderness” into the totalizing cryptoreligion we suffer under today. The last stage of its larval, theistic form was the adoption, by the West’s Protestant elite, of the First World War as a religious crusade, described in revealing detail in a book I reviewed a couple of years ago.

Read that post here.

* I offer a term for the hijacking of a young brain by this voracious meme-plex: cordyception.