This is one of the bad cat’s best. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
can western civilization survive the loss of its christian underpinnings?
i have long subscribed to the sort of jungian/jospeh campbellian school of religion/myths as archetypes, as reflections of the human subconscious and our fundamental drives, needs, and natures erected, selected, and preserved by (and perhaps preserving of) humanity.
such stories are preserved to the extent that they serve this role well and help us understand what it is to be us, why are we here, what is a good life, how we are to consider and comport ourselves with regard to our own selves and our fellows, what happens when we die, and the other “big questions.”
pondering this instinct and inclination rapidly leads one to vonnegut style ideas about how useful religions could be based entirely upon lies and points to a form of “harmless (or even useful) lie” that his invented bokononist faith terms “foma.”
“live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy”
serves as opening epigram to “cat’s cradle” and this idea sets up the dichotomy i’d like to draw here:
there are truths and there are truths.
The only religion in the Great Reset Leap Forward will be the state.
The state hates the competition known as family, tribe, religion.
Comrades of the New Civility will turn you in for a full EBT card if you don’t cheer loud enough, carry your little red book or sport a party badge.
Any deviation from hive thought will be a crime.
You might get off lightly with a vigorous struggle session.
Smirk against the machine, fart in the face of the hive.