Future of an illusion: review ( religion, rationalism, compensation)

[@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel]

Excellent Owen, and I really appreciate how you framed Freud’s work on religion as trying to understand what it did in the society, something which we have assumed would be easier to move beyond than it actually has so proven. I also like the point that Religion could restrict us, yes, but at the same provided wisdom, while Big Corporations and Systems today can also restrict us, but without the same wisdom to go along with it. I also loved your point that the wealthy today converting to religion suggests that the Enlightenment hopes of moving beyond religion through prosperity and/or market projects have failed. Also, “existential maturity” is a marvelous phrase. And I agree that it’s “open season”-you captured at the end the spirit of the moment perfectly.

[@owenintheagon]

Thanks man. Yeah there's lots of observations about the 21st century that contradict the assumptions many modernist era thinkers had about religion.

[@letdaseinlive]

It's an interesting symptom of Freud's scientific Dasein that he wasn't that skilled in polemic. It's an interesting point. As a doctor and scientific man his knowledge of the canons of classical scholarship was relatively very bad.

[@owenintheagon]

You can tell that there's always a philosopher at war with the scientist in his writings

[@letdaseinlive]

@owenintheagon Untrained and misled philosophic instincts in a straightjacket of Darwin by way of Haeckel. But, engaged with Rousseau. (Interesting observation that his tone is very far from the new atheist imbicilism.)