Bonus Sample: You Can’t Do Religion on the Internet
Conspirituality8 Heinä 2024

Bonus Sample: You Can’t Do Religion on the Internet

Back in 2011, Ward and Voas wrote that conspirituality was a mainly-online movement, and they were right about that. They didn’t do fieldwork at events. They didn’t attend trainings and rituals. They combed the internet for evidence of what they were looking for. They found strange and anxious spiritual themes. But they also found evidence of what the internet does in all of its speed and dissociation, in its invitation to seize attention through contrarianism and amplify jagged anxieties and glittering pieties. In finding conspirituality, they may have proven that you can’t do religion on the internet. And maybe, that’s part of why conspirituality exists. Religious impulses are ancient and primal, centering communities as campfires do. But they also throw off sparks of narcissism and extremism, which the algorithms must capture to drive engagement. Show Notes MMMEATTT — “A newsletter about things that can’t exist on the internet” by Beau Brink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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306: Antifascist Wellness

306: Antifascist Wellness

Two-thirds of the Conspirituality staff have new books out: Matthew's AntiFascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times and Derek's Well Enough:  Finding Health Despite the Well...

30 Huhti 1h 10min

Bonus Sample: Leo and Restless Hearts in Algeria

Bonus Sample: Leo and Restless Hearts in Algeria

In April 2026, Pope Leo XIV, deep in a public feud with President Trump over the Iran war, made his first trip to Africa. He chose Algeria: the birthplace of Augustine, the spiritual founder of his or...

27 Huhti 5min

Brief: Well Enough (Book Excerpt)

Brief: Well Enough (Book Excerpt)

Derek reads two chapters from his recently published memoir, Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry. In Chapters 3 & 4, he discusses his work as a patient monitor looking after suic...

25 Huhti 22min

305: AI’s Cultish Leader

305: AI’s Cultish Leader

Ronan Farrow is at it again. The reporter has a new feature in The New Yorker, written alongside staff writer Andrew Marantz, about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In many ways, the 16,000-word investigation i...

23 Huhti 1h 21min

Bonus Sample: How the Self is Made...and Unmade

Bonus Sample: How the Self is Made...and Unmade

Derek looks into behavioral economics to better understand the fluidity of the "self," finding that recent research aligns with a very old Buddhist concept. Show Notes What Does Extreme Wealth Do To...

20 Huhti 5min

Brief: Pope Leo vs AI Slop Jesus Trump

Brief: Pope Leo vs AI Slop Jesus Trump

Donald Trump's shitpost attack on Pope Leo XIV, followed within the hour by an AI slop icon of himself as Jesus, has cracked open the evangelical-Catholic coalition that has anchored American conserva...

18 Huhti 28min

304: Twisted Tantric Yogi

304: Twisted Tantric Yogi

Consider the bright-eyed students who signed up for tantric yoga and sacred sexuality courses through their local yoga studios, only to eventually find they were sending the guru photos of themselves ...

16 Huhti 1h 11min

Bonus Sample: The Philosopher, The King, & The Holy Man

Bonus Sample: The Philosopher, The King, & The Holy Man

When the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini received Western media in a small French village in 1978, he sat cross-legged in his robes and black turban under an apple tree in the garden. They described him as ...

13 Huhti 8min

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