83. Do humans need meaning? Are wokeness and Trumpism new age religions? Mentioning Yuval Harari...

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/andrew-sullivan-americas-new-religions.html “Religion is an attempt to find meaning in events, not a theory that tries to explain the universe.” It exists because we humans are the only species, so far as we can know, who have evolved to know explicitly that, one day in the future, we will die. And this existential fact requires some way of reconciling us to it while we are alive. No meaning = Hopelessness. What is wokeness? https://boghossian.substack.com/p/woke-religion-a-taxonomy If you want to contact us please do so at [email protected]