FYI, I’m totally fine calling things religion. It’s the actual structure of religion (i.e. community centered around intergenerational memetic ideology) I think no longer works.
My point isn’t that atomization is good, but that it makes different sets of things practical/impractical for creating community. (i.e. I think most people would rather get their community from Dancing or Crossfit groups or whatever than from a humanist religion. Ideological conformity is actually a key ingredient for religion working, and it’s incompatible with the kinds of humanism you probably want).
(I have a bunch more thoughts/models here, may not have time to articulate them. But, a lot of people have attempted the thing you’re articulating here and my current bet is that this thing doesn’t work)
To be clear, I think there’s a huge problem humanity is facing about how to do community and various social structure in this era, I just don’t think the solution is to try to do religion-structured-things.
FYI, I’m totally fine calling things religion. It’s the actual structure of religion (i.e. community centered around intergenerational memetic ideology) I think no longer works.
My point isn’t that atomization is good, but that it makes different sets of things practical/impractical for creating community. (i.e. I think most people would rather get their community from Dancing or Crossfit groups or whatever than from a humanist religion. Ideological conformity is actually a key ingredient for religion working, and it’s incompatible with the kinds of humanism you probably want).
(I have a bunch more thoughts/models here, may not have time to articulate them. But, a lot of people have attempted the thing you’re articulating here and my current bet is that this thing doesn’t work)
To be clear, I think there’s a huge problem humanity is facing about how to do community and various social structure in this era, I just don’t think the solution is to try to do religion-structured-things.