"Even today US politics retains a strong religious inflection" - yes, but the social belief has partially collapsed since 2000. A huge, historical shift. Something like 45% of Americans now adhere to a church etc. This shift is even more pronounced among young people than previously.
Re: science displacing God - yes, this does unmoor rights from the supernatural housing, and throw us into a secular power struggle... out of which emerges new sacralization, as you say.
Your revolution sounds like anarchist existentialism.
Thanks and your points noted. As to 'anarchist existentialism', this is true at one level - the personal - but the political is not the personal. The political requires choices that relate to the reality of 'the they' (the 'half-hive') so an accommodation is necessary. The appropriate accommodation strikes me as libertarian socialism. This accommodation leads to a further pragmatic accommodation based on 'what is possible' including in relation to one's own level of 'potency'. So, the trajectory moves further (though always necessarily contingently) towards any force that counters the 'miasma of evil' emanating out of the existing system. As of today and under contemporary British conditions, if this is not to be sniping from the sidelines like every other outraged and useless 'intellectual', it has to involve some degree of limited but committed practical politics 'all things considered'. As of late-2024 (and since mid-2024) this has drawn me to the Workers Party of Britain which is a more socially conservative traditional socialist and anti-imperialist formation. The trajectory is from anarcho-existentialism (where there are overlaps with elements in the radical Right) to the only current possible challenger from the Left to a broken, corrupted and morally bankrupt system. If I was an American, I might choose an entirely different path, perhaps one closer to the thinking of Vance and Musk, and, if I was European or East Asian or Arab or African, other forms again. In Argentina, for example, I would be a radical leftist rebel against Milei. Constant re-evaluation takes place, of course, but this seems the appropriate stance now. I genuinely believe we are, existentially, now dealing with something which can actually be called 'evil' and that increasing numbers of people are becoming disturbed by the risk of becoming complicit in it and ((to continue the language of the 'God-thing' of the past) so 'losing their souls'. One part of this 'revolution' is, of course, rediscovering the Self in defiance of the trajectory since '68. And, in rediscovering the Self, so rediscovering the connections outwards from the Self that build the 'good' society. This does not come from texts or theory.
Another excellent meditation.
A few notes:
"Even today US politics retains a strong religious inflection" - yes, but the social belief has partially collapsed since 2000. A huge, historical shift. Something like 45% of Americans now adhere to a church etc. This shift is even more pronounced among young people than previously.
Re: science displacing God - yes, this does unmoor rights from the supernatural housing, and throw us into a secular power struggle... out of which emerges new sacralization, as you say.
Your revolution sounds like anarchist existentialism.
Thanks and your points noted. As to 'anarchist existentialism', this is true at one level - the personal - but the political is not the personal. The political requires choices that relate to the reality of 'the they' (the 'half-hive') so an accommodation is necessary. The appropriate accommodation strikes me as libertarian socialism. This accommodation leads to a further pragmatic accommodation based on 'what is possible' including in relation to one's own level of 'potency'. So, the trajectory moves further (though always necessarily contingently) towards any force that counters the 'miasma of evil' emanating out of the existing system. As of today and under contemporary British conditions, if this is not to be sniping from the sidelines like every other outraged and useless 'intellectual', it has to involve some degree of limited but committed practical politics 'all things considered'. As of late-2024 (and since mid-2024) this has drawn me to the Workers Party of Britain which is a more socially conservative traditional socialist and anti-imperialist formation. The trajectory is from anarcho-existentialism (where there are overlaps with elements in the radical Right) to the only current possible challenger from the Left to a broken, corrupted and morally bankrupt system. If I was an American, I might choose an entirely different path, perhaps one closer to the thinking of Vance and Musk, and, if I was European or East Asian or Arab or African, other forms again. In Argentina, for example, I would be a radical leftist rebel against Milei. Constant re-evaluation takes place, of course, but this seems the appropriate stance now. I genuinely believe we are, existentially, now dealing with something which can actually be called 'evil' and that increasing numbers of people are becoming disturbed by the risk of becoming complicit in it and ((to continue the language of the 'God-thing' of the past) so 'losing their souls'. One part of this 'revolution' is, of course, rediscovering the Self in defiance of the trajectory since '68. And, in rediscovering the Self, so rediscovering the connections outwards from the Self that build the 'good' society. This does not come from texts or theory.