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Originally Posted by timun
All you're saying here is that a lack of "cultish teams" have given rise to other "cultish teams", while glossing over that religion and a "sense of community" is what drives a lot of the extremist views that kooks have glommed onto.
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Pretty much exactly what I'm saying.
I'm not religious at all and think religion is stupid, like all groupthink. I guess I thought people would gravitate towards fact based decision making and critical thinking with all the data at our fingertips these days. Unfortunately social media and misinformation has taken hold and we're still the same people as we always have been. Contentious, selfish and stubborn.
I didn't mean to gloss over how historically awful religion has been, I just don't think it's relevant to this particular discussion.
I'm not sure about sense of community causing selfishness, I'll have to disagree with you there. Our communities are now just groups of individuals, who find like minds on the internet instead of having a more diverse group with only geography in common.