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Bonus Ep 78 - Is It Like The HRE?
🕑 Added 2025-01-17 13:00:11 +0000 UTCpatrons, here is your first bonus of 2025 and your first bonus of January, enjoy!
folks, the bonus is back for a new year and Luke and Eleanor have been thinking about things and stuff and it's time to ruminate on them. first, Eleanor talks about the way in which rationality and a loss of spirituality supposedly went hand-in-hand with the Enlightenment. it's really been grinding her gears and she's going to speak on it. then Luke answers a discord question from patron, everyzig314, who asked him to compare and contrast the Holy Roman Empire and the Galactic Republic from Star Wars. so we get another installment of the podcast's favorite game show: Is It Like The HRE?
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aldebrn
"We are living through a real resurgence in magical thinking now" — thanks to this incredible episode, I kicked off reading a bunch of sociology papers on cults, what happens when cult leaders make predictions that fail (spoiler alert: cult members double-down on belief), and how to make sense of falling church membership but surging belief in cults and cult-adjacent (conspiracy theories, occult, MAGA). I'm really excited to see where this research leads Dr Janega! I guess I unthinkingly believed that superstition and supernaturalism would die out naturally but e.g., Stark and Bainbridge's "The future of religion: secularization, revival, and cult formation" is talking me out of that belief 😢
Evan A. Payne
Come to New England there is a superstition for everything you just have to ask someone who is old about it
