1a) - on Zvi: I think I linked him in the comments on the post about slack, as he has a pretty good post on the topic along with lots of links to related posts. His series on the book "Moral Mazes" is especially helpful for analyzing why large corporations tend to produce crappy office politics, and I think makes some good wider points about how the design of organizations can lead them to some unexpected places.
Unfortunately, for the past two years, most of his output has been extensive coverage of Covid, and not much else. I think his best work is when he's grappling with what he would no doubt be horrified to classify as "spiritual" issues (Slack, Sabbath, educating his kids, ethics and morality, and so forth)
1b) - On the "Confucian" approach to religion: That's a good way to put it, and not a connection I had explicitly made, though I suspect that in Spenglerian terms there's a very tight correspondence where both trends happened/are happening in their respective culture's lifecycle. It will be interesting to see how various attempts at this work out, because my own experience with trying religion without a real belief in the Gods was that it felt hollow and dumb and I didn't get much out of it. Maybe social rituals are more amenable to the Confucian approach than personal practice.
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Date: 2022-04-04 07:06 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, for the past two years, most of his output has been extensive coverage of Covid, and not much else. I think his best work is when he's grappling with what he would no doubt be horrified to classify as "spiritual" issues (Slack, Sabbath, educating his kids, ethics and morality, and so forth)
1b) - On the "Confucian" approach to religion: That's a good way to put it, and not a connection I had explicitly made, though I suspect that in Spenglerian terms there's a very tight correspondence where both trends happened/are happening in their respective culture's lifecycle. It will be interesting to see how various attempts at this work out, because my own experience with trying religion without a real belief in the Gods was that it felt hollow and dumb and I didn't get much out of it. Maybe social rituals are more amenable to the Confucian approach than personal practice.