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One must understand the strange relationship religion has with mass society. It's really only a dressing on top, for most people. Well, at least in this capitalist hellscape.
Religion won't put fish and bread on the table. Eris won't give you shelter and certainly not security. Material reality ultimately dominates spirituality, at least among the living who have survived. And so, religion becomes secondary to the economy and its superstructure; its culture.
So yes, for millions the pilgrimage slowly becomes "oh its that thing we have to do so we aren't damned", or worse, "oh honey look at those weird people *siiiiip*".
And we don't FUCKING talk about **mas. For what it's worth, there's nothing authentic about that holiday in the first place, but nonetheless it's a clear demonstration of how compromised the typical "follower" can be.
It's amazing how money can pervert all kinds of contradictory things. I don't fully understand, beyond the basic theme of political recuperation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_%28politics%29
Look at anticapitalist grifters. Their fans should clearly know better!
Camping -> Glamping - what's the fucking point? Just get a hotel you prick.
Just look what they did to San Fransisco. The Emperor Norton would have razed the place had he seen this future. Even their hippie festivals like Burning Pope are gentrified.
Religions aren't special, and it looks like only the inner circles and cults can escape this commercial deterioration.
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People say money corrupts, as in the idea that possessing wealth somehow changes you. It's a fucking joke. Of course not, idiot. I know people who have come into wealth through luck or social lottery rather than choice and if anything they're embarrassed by it and share some around, not much else. A healthy socialized human feels guilt when they deprive others. Look at the Pineapple Fund. That's a functional person. That's what happens when a pope accidentally becomes a multi-millioniare. No, it's the inverse. corruption is how those people come into money. No-one "earns" a billion dollars, the only people who deserve millions of dollars generally end up penniless. You either exploit others or inherit it, and it's rare that the first lot (or even the second) have a chance at redemption.
