• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      The faith people have in capitalism is the same as their faith in their religion. Trump is the leader to his own religion.

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        Much deeper faith. I mean the faith people have in capitalism is to the point where they can’t even imagine other economic systems existing.

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          tbf it’s all that we ever knew, even the “communist” ones are/were state capitalists

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      As explained, the economics don’t matter. We seem wired to invent nonsense and hack each other to pieces because of myths.

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            I’m not even a Christian and this is a genuinely rubbish take, go and look up William Wilberforce for example.

            Edit: I feel that I really have to stress what I thought was obvious, the notion that every human being from behavioural modernity to the Enlightenment was mentally ill is so foolish on the face of it that it isn’t worth even entertaining even for the sake of argument.

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              Yes, they were. I am mentally ill too, I am depressed, I am anxious, we all have some degree of what one generation ago was a mental illness and now isn’t.

              Mental illness doesn’t mean dysfunctional or crazy, but if you have a heart surgeon that’s also a Flat Earther, what do you call that?