by Tyler Durden
By Michael Every of Rabobank
Finite and Infinite Great Games
Spending time on social media is a great way to pollute one’s mind with ill-informed idiocy, bile, narcissism, and the most trivial of all trivia - which is why we all spend so much time doing it. However, it does also offer the occasional diamond in the rough as a platform for some genuinely interesting discussions.
Yesterday, I watched Bret Weinstein’s ‘Dark Horse’, where Jamie Wheal pronounced that --from an American perspective--
what we are currently experiencing is a “meaning recession”. To summarize his argument, for most of mankind’s history, the social order was fixed, with power centered on religious authorities: this offered “salvation” at the price of “inclusion”. Following the Enlightenment, Western society shifted to secular, rational, humanist foundations that offered a level playing field of “inclusion” --in theory-- at the price of *public* “salvation”. Yet Western belief in religion as the central organizing force of society,