SELL ME A GOD
The making of the Liberal State Religion
The last few years have seen a series of bizarre crazes amplified and virally transmitted by mass media.
From the lockdown regime to the war in Ukraine, through the apotheosis of Saint George Floyd to the climate cult and the transgender trend, millions of people have been mobilised into factions of intense and irrational belief.
All of them are extremely destructive. None of them make sense. Yet those who invested themselves in these causes, however momentarily, did so with a sort of religious fanaticism which sees unbelievers persecuted for unbelief.
How could this happen?
