From Mark Mitchell’s book chapters from Power and Purity, we discussed two different truths and how this can relate to the overall class theme of wokeism. There is a Puritanical worldview and a Nietzchean worldview. We largely discussed the Puritancial worldview. It is a moralizing discourse in order for individuals to fit into a particular mold. The Puritans perpetuated a force of anti-freedom and conformity. This can be compared to the wokeists, which are a group of the present. The wokeists are similar to the Puritans as they have the same reasoning style of relativism. This concept of relativism was started by the ancient Greek philosophers. It is the idea that all knowledge claims are limited to the perspective of the claim they made. However, intellectuals in American culture see a problem with this wokeist view. Their approach is a moral worldview. It is suggested that intellectuals in American culture are participating in the political project which is built out of identity political and moral individuals. This is the Nietzchean worldview. After this we transitioned to the topic of our souls in Christianity.
Religion is the product of a work, something greater than you is what gives you your value. The idea of being a part of something bigger than yourself, reminded me how I have felt my entire life by participating in sports. My whole life I have identified as an athlete. After college, it is going to be difficult to transition as I will not have a team that is bigger than me. There will be a new identity marker for me. I think that it is interesting to note the secularization rate in the United States. There is now a downward trend away from people associating with religion. I wonder since COVID has played a significant role in everyone’s lives over the past 2 years, if there has been a change in the rate of religion. I feel like during times of stress, people want to turn to something that is bigger than themselves, so they do not feel alone. I wonder in the United States if people turned to religion, or if there was another outlet instead?
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being apart of something bigger than yourself, maybe that’s way religion has made its way into everyday life on how we think as a society. Even when religions is not necessarily apart of its values are still lingering even today.