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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 15:48:13 +0100
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 04/11/2024 09:15, D wrote:
>> I think we also need some good progress in psychology around what motivates 
>> people, what gives them meaning, and happiness.
>
> Well we had a solution to that. Religion.
>
> Now that is gone and the great unwashed are turning to Islam.
> It gives their crappy lives purpose and a nobility that it doesn't deserve.
> Same as Marxism.

My bet is more on Brave New World in the form os positive psychology and 
"nudging"-research when it comes to the new religion of "science" in the 
west and how the government can "nudge" the common man to be cute and 
friendly.