"Price of eggs" jokes or "economic anxiety" jokes are political Calvinism. They're ignoring material conditions to say that the people who vote for the opposing party are just the Bad People.

CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net · 7 个月前

"Price of eggs" jokes or "economic anxiety" jokes are political Calvinism. They're ignoring material conditions to say that the people who vote for the opposing party are just the Bad People.

rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.net · 7 个月前

I thought election was based on nothing and there was no real way to tell if you were saved?

BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net · 7 个月前

People didn’t really like that too much so you got these elaborations that eventually evolved into Prosperity Gospel.

rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.net · edit-2 7 个月前

Ah yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements

BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net · 7 个月前

Here’s a good summary: https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/return-to-max-vebers-theory-of-development/

It all got jumbled up a bunch in the US so I might not have the family tree correct but there are common roots.

rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.net · 7 个月前

Okay I’ll have to go over that. I do know Weber and the Protestant work ethic, though I’ve never read it.