The Hare Krishnas have now been replaced by liberal arts professors who enjoy a captive audience of fresh young souls delivered to their urban podiums ready to accommodate whatever beliefs are necessary to fit in with their new peers.

The process is then reinforced and repeated at an entry-level job in a Fortune 500 which demands loyalty in exchange for a living. In their free time, the new acolyte logs on Facebook and sees all the shiny successful people in the world also hold these opinions.

You can read some of @thespandrell’s essays on Bioleninism to see how the rest of the struggle goes; what I have tried to focus on here is how some of this conversion happens initially.

A lot of what I wrote came from Rodney Stark’s Rise of Christianity which examines the fall of traditional Roman belief from a sociological perspective. It is well worth a look.

The more I read about the transformation of Rome from its traditional religious beliefs to a Christian empire the more I see the parallels today... and the more I fear that what is happening is an inevitable process that must occur in all old exhausted civilisations.

The iron law of diminishing returns means that new sects will always arise so that the mid-privileged can attempt to displace the elite. It’s a rule as old as time. The difference though is the successor ideology of Christianity had positive civilisation-building elements...

... which I do not see in the successor ideology of Wokeism (or whatever we call it). All I see is ruin and chaos. There are no elements to this which can build a better future - it only offers endless struggle, tension and dopamine for it’s adherents.

Any great man who wants to prevent how the world is changing needs to realise he cannot stop this tide of history, but instead try to stem the flood into a different direction. This fervour will not dissipate. Whether that can be achieved though I am not entirely optimistic.