Atheism as an ideology (agnostic vs. nihilist)
27 March 2014 [link youtube]
Ideology is everywhere used and everywhere deplored, like the disposable plastic bag; and, all the same, we dispense with one just to replace it with another --even if we struggle to keep up the illusion that we could live without them.
If you're honest enough about anything, it starts to sound like a joke; that's why reality TV turns private tragedy into public comedy. Here's my first direct commentary on nihilism: no make-up, no music, no mood-lighting, no editing... and, yeah, my blender is my co-host.
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about ideology as if it were a dirty word.
and important that we talk about the social articulation of ideas in a way that's aspirational, that is the realm of ideology. You can try we're going to talk about ideology. Some people remember what it was like in the 1990s heyday postmodernism, but there was a period of time your face, "Oh! How can you associate your "Any concept that ends with 'ism' is just Anything that ends with "-ism", and y'know... in life end with "-ism". desperate state of affairs when people want about ideology when we are. I'm old enough to remember-- was that, y'know, of the disposable plastic bag. Everybody uses among the cognoscenti that you never use them. you can't have disposable plastic bags in you've got to have reusable bags with you. life involves plastic bags, right? with this again? Right... ideology. on right now that are trying to expand atheism ideology. And I don't mean "ideology" in a sense. Um, a really good comparison would well [as the '90s]-- in the 1980s there were off as a single issue cause, [and they said], maybe [we're] opposed to nuclear power plants, have this one issue in common, and then expand You try to have a picnic with a whole bunch what you have in common, you find out what into articulating the ideology: trying to People become vegetarian, one of the first that you have nothing in common with the other you become vegetarian, you know what your other people have become vegetarian for different your set of motives, and that you may feel So, what's the line of reasoning, the line you to question: what is the ideology of vegetarianism? people with vegetarianism? goes on with atheism in the 21st century, it has been successful, it has had best-selling It has become a leading, notable part of public we say. It's interesting, and I sympathize with people Jaclyn Glenn, another Youtube vlogger on atheism, to a position of trying to very narrowly define atheism identify as agnostic. You can see their discussion, but I feel that they're moving in the wrong atheism is to move forward, and to say, no, one issue, one idea, one problem. This isn't find the common ground with the other people build something positive, and that inevitably To speak very quickly in what I hope is going in one word? I think that if we're honest Talk about words that people don't want to of negative connotations, but what that really is that we're shifting the focus away from broader questioning of the basis of belief that's where atheism has got to go.
and important that we talk about the social articulation of ideas in a way that's aspirational, that is the realm of ideology. You can try we're going to talk about ideology. Some people remember what it was like in the 1990s heyday postmodernism, but there was a period of time your face, "Oh! How can you associate your "Any concept that ends with 'ism' is just Anything that ends with "-ism", and y'know... in life end with "-ism". desperate state of affairs when people want about ideology when we are. I'm old enough to remember-- was that, y'know, of the disposable plastic bag. Everybody uses among the cognoscenti that you never use them. you can't have disposable plastic bags in you've got to have reusable bags with you. life involves plastic bags, right? with this again? Right... ideology. on right now that are trying to expand atheism ideology. And I don't mean "ideology" in a sense. Um, a really good comparison would well [as the '90s]-- in the 1980s there were off as a single issue cause, [and they said], maybe [we're] opposed to nuclear power plants, have this one issue in common, and then expand You try to have a picnic with a whole bunch what you have in common, you find out what into articulating the ideology: trying to People become vegetarian, one of the first that you have nothing in common with the other you become vegetarian, you know what your other people have become vegetarian for different your set of motives, and that you may feel So, what's the line of reasoning, the line you to question: what is the ideology of vegetarianism? people with vegetarianism? goes on with atheism in the 21st century, it has been successful, it has had best-selling It has become a leading, notable part of public we say. It's interesting, and I sympathize with people Jaclyn Glenn, another Youtube vlogger on atheism, to a position of trying to very narrowly define atheism identify as agnostic. You can see their discussion, but I feel that they're moving in the wrong atheism is to move forward, and to say, no, one issue, one idea, one problem. This isn't find the common ground with the other people build something positive, and that inevitably To speak very quickly in what I hope is going in one word? I think that if we're honest Talk about words that people don't want to of negative connotations, but what that really is that we're shifting the focus away from broader questioning of the basis of belief that's where atheism has got to go.