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> rationalists are kind of adrift in real life due to the great unpersoning of religion and its replacement with woke or trumpian politics

Interesting point. It's a collectivist religion for people who despise "religion" and "collectivism"

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honestly i don't think they despise it; they seem a lot friendlier to it at least on social grounds. But everyone needs meaning; the religious force is in everyone, and if religion is weakened, well, transhumanism can easily replace it

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