Displaced belief (exemplum) : “Do you believe in god?” “No, but I go to church to keep the children happy.”
A type of worlding in compromise (no, but)
Displaced belief (exemplum) : “Do you believe in god?” “No, but I go to church to keep the children happy.”
I think Slavoj Žižek describes it correctly, but is wrong about the dates.
Displaced belief is the basic compromise of modernity which goes back into the late paleolithic. (Well before Žižek’s example of Luther, well before Bruno Snell’s Discovery of the Greek Mind) And the doubling down on it is just as old (into dogmaticism) but certain social condition allow it to fester more than other times. Imperial over-reach is one.
“Lip service” is the norm, anything else is over-wrought and dangerous. Even ‘cultural christians’ do this in their worlding efforts. The fact they can then dogmatically double down on lip service is then no surprise. Even small “o” orthodox Peter Thiel does so when he has a non-narcissitic moment.
It’s not lazy, but its no great effort either.
We don’t need stories to believe in for some great individuating need of spirituality. We need stories to world in compromise with others doing the same. There is no great need for religion, that’s just influencer bullshit.
(Unless advertising and marketting is a illness) there is no pathology here until we dogmaticaly double down and make perfection the enemy of the good, or the wise.
Happy New Year! (Now there is a story)
Crossposted at whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com
You, my friend (hopefully not inadvertently), give hope to the weary traveler.
Happy New Year
Arguments for the need for religion, in citations
-Meika Loofs Samorzewski
"Displaced belief" :
" There is no great need for religion, that’s just influencer bullshit."
-Jacques Derrida
"Globalization, Peace, and Cosmopolitanism":
The concept of "peace" refers us to a certain historical past; it has a memory that distinguishes it from other concepts: globe, universe, Earth, or even cosmos (at least cosmos in its pre-Christian meaning, which the Apostle Paul later Christianized precisely to affirm the understanding of the cosmos as a world, a fraternal community of people, neighbors, brothers, sons of God, and neighbors of one another). The reason for this lies in the fact that the concept of peace arose and sought to persist in the Abrahamic tradition (Judeo-Christian-Islamic, but primarily Christian) to designate a specific chronotope, a specifically oriented history of human brotherhood.
The Christian origin of the concept of peace and all the ethical-political-legal terms by which the processes of globalization are regulated can be demonstrated.
-Julia Kristeva
"Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection":
"Abjection is immoral because it is vile and suspicious, always hesitant and never offering a direct answer: hidden terror, smiling hatred, passion for a body it exchanges instead of embracing, a debtor who will sell you, a friend who will slaughter you...
The disgusting confronts us, on the one hand, during those transitional periods of human history when man wanders into animal territory. Thus, it was precisely with disgust that primitive societies marked the territory of their culture, separating it from the threatening animal or bestial world, which is represented as murder or sexual intercourse.
Various modifications of the purification of the disgusting—various forms of catharsis—constitute the history of religions."