WOO WOO IS PERSONALLY CHEAP BUT CONSEQUENTIALLY EXPENSIVE I avoid all woo woo li

WOO WOO IS PERSONALLY CHEAP BUT CONSEQUENTIALLY EXPENSIVE

I avoid all woo woo like the plague. Instead I explain how and why our perception of the spiritual exists, why it’s an externality (illusion), and why we find comfort in that illusion. And why some groups use it a lot some less and some not at all.

Now, that doesn’t mean that people don’t need to satisfy the behavioral demand that woo woo serves. It’s that there are a spectrum of methods of satisfying it – and the least woo woo are the most expensive – which is why underclasses favor cheap methods, and elites promote them.

Teaching aristotelianism, stoicism (self-authoring), epicureanism (values), and the natural law (ethics and morality) would produce mindfulness. But it’s a lot more work than learning somethign ridiculous like Islam. So we invested heavily in general education (aristotelianism) but we didn’t convert the church from mindfulness by woo woo into mindfulness by training. Buddhism does this but with woo woo. Less woo woo than the abrahamic religions, but it’s still woo woo.