Modern Mythologies, & Fundamentalism Is Countercultural Modernism

The Religious Right and New Age Left both promoted time-distorting meta-myths—imaginary past golden ages and implausible future utopias—to hide their defects.

https://meaningness.com/counterculture-history-myths

Fundamentalism is not traditional; it is a modern, countercultural movement, opposed to tradition and to post-modernity.

https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism

This references David Chapman's essay on another site, "Ritual Vs Mentalism":

https://vividness.live/ritual-vs-mentalism

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Modern Mythologies, & Fundamentalism Is Countercultural Modernism

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