We joke about Big Rat being a secular religion, but listen to what a sympathetic religious scholar has to say.
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My biggest issue is that just because something, let's call it A′, elicits the same emotional response (e.g. brings joy, elicit tears) in a person as another thing A. It doesn't follow that A′ and A are variation of the same phenomenon. Religion is not just about "peak experiences"; it is a parcel of commitments -- ontological, epistemological, moral, and existential -- that a person is to make for the renewal of a his relationship with the world, with other people, and with himself. The consoomerist worship of Big Rat is none of these things; the way Eichler-Levine analyses religion is crudely anthropological.
OK, let's hear from Bobby.
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So Bobby is at least sane enough to choose food over the presence of Mickey and Minnie. But what if it were Mario and Peach?
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Being a sticker of consistency doesn't mean you turn a TV show into a religion.
Why are you so mean to the New Priestly Class, I mean the Creative Elites!!!!!
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So much to unpack...
1) Bobby sees religion in crass mercenary terms, which is no surprise.
2) Bobby now claims that consoomer fandoms should hold exactly zero societal power over anything. So he admits that Big Rat and Hollywood should not push for racial or LGBT bullshit?
3) You can and
should discard a consoomer product that no longer sparks joy, because you are not obliged to it. A faith, on the contrary, is the covenant you make with a higher power.
Bobby admits that American journalism is agenda-laden.
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Talking is the privilege of the few People Who Matter.
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Again, good luck getting those People Who Matter band together without them clawing each others' eyes out.
People who don't want their children to read gay smut cannot have economic anxiety.
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Covid.
Archive of
Tablemag article.
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WaPo drama. Racist Bob is racist.
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Musk.
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"Twitter's board displayed competence."
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Tim Burton.
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Mr. Embarrassment shills for Bobby.
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Superior Future
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"I'm married that's okay; we're from a different country."
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Chris gets parochial and drop F-bombs about clam chowder.
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