CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days ago"Price of eggs" jokes or "economic anxiety" jokes are political Calvinism. They're ignoring material conditions to say that the people who vote for the opposing party are just the Bad People.message-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up196arrow-down1message-square"Price of eggs" jokes or "economic anxiety" jokes are political Calvinism. They're ignoring material conditions to say that the people who vote for the opposing party are just the Bad People.CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square53fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoPeople didn’t really like that too much so you got these elaborations that eventually evolved into Prosperity Gospel.
minus-squarerootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-28 days agoAh yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoHere’s a good summary: https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/return-to-max-vebers-theory-of-development/ It all got jumbled up a bunch in the US so I might not have the family tree correct but there are common roots.
minus-squarerootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoOkay I’ll have to go over that. I do know Weber and the Protestant work ethic, though I’ve never read it.
People didn’t really like that too much so you got these elaborations that eventually evolved into Prosperity Gospel.
Ah yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements
Here’s a good summary: https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/return-to-max-vebers-theory-of-development/
It all got jumbled up a bunch in the US so I might not have the family tree correct but there are common roots.
Okay I’ll have to go over that. I do know Weber and the Protestant work ethic, though I’ve never read it.