- What we've seen is a purity spiral.
People reaching after more
and more extreme forms
of religious devotion.
Even in the U.S.
Literally self-flagellating,
like Medieval penance,
Ex-communicating people who disagree,
declaring kind of crusades and stuff.
And I'm afraid that this
perceived external threat
of the pestilence has driven people
into what future historians will recognize
as a moment of religious fanaticism,
but with the religion not being a belief
in the transcendental,
but rather being this perverse form
of identity politics
that, of all bizarre things,
calls itself anti-racist
when, of course, it's based,
more than any other
ideology in the world now,
on making everything about
accident of physiognomy
and ethnicity.
It's the most backward
looking of all creeds.
