@SherPoint 3/ But it didn't add up. 'Mysticism’ was obscure, opaque and, to most folk, irrelevant or repellent. Soon, provoked by a Guide's averral that "our path will only ever be for the few", I broke with an 'esoteric unilateralism' quite at odds, I felt, with my democratic inclinations.
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Copy of tweet here: “...Mysteries are intrinsically esoteric, and as such are an offense to democracy: is not publicity a democratic principle? Democratic resentment denies that there can be anything that can't be seen by everybody...”
@tbarson49 @nils_gilman @adam_tooze Yup, the true test of a positivist/positive anthropology is, I suppose, that it needs to work everywhere, for everybody. A functional, democratic mode including and transcending, for example, the facts of materialist-religious divide. We all have the planet in common. Solidarity!
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