State Shinto transformed loyalty into sacred duty in modern Japan ⚔️
From conscription to wartime mobilization, the Japanese Imperial Army operated within a civil religion that treated obedience to the Emperor as spiritual obligation.
A powerful reminder of how nationalism, ritual, and military structure can intertwine — and what that means in times of total war.
#History #ModernJapan #CivilReligion #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/japanese-imperial-army-state-shinto-19th-20th-centuries/
Meditation on Triggers for #CivilReligion
Surreal Experience
As an #American “military age male”, there have been 3 times in my adult life during which headline news and civil circumstances have left me to feel uncomfortable inside my own skin:
9/11
Election Night 2016
Jan 6th
My dad read a lot of Tom Clancy when I was growing up, so…I read a lot of Tom Clancy growing up.
http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/06/22/meditation-on-triggers-for-civil-religion/
the Senate and People of Civitates Foederatae Americae
#SPQCFA #WordsMeanThings #BodyPolitic #CivilReligion #culture #history
Interesting use of "civil religion" there, too, which was only *just* picking up traction as a phrase, I think.
It’s ironic that they reason they want to undermine the #AdministrativeState and blow up the #American #CivilReligion is in order to refactor it in their Christofascist worldview.
They object to the technical debt incurred as a result of developing civil infrastructure for the #BodyPolitic.
You can’t shame the shameless.
If Obama had committed to live-streamed town halls in 2009-12, then people would have seen the creepy weirdos from their neighborhoods earlier on and rejected them quicker.
#ParticipatoryLeadership is critical to the #American #CivilReligion.
https://mastodon.social/@digiphile/113023671549766211
The #American #Catiline lives and wants to hold a triumph.
Catiline was wicked.
#CivilReligion #history
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/113017383564160585
Isn't this...I mean, shouldn't this be a crime. When I first read this I thought it must be a joke, but apparently not! https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/08/23/what-to-know-about-j6-awards-gala-and-whether-trump-will-attend/
This is <10 min CNN interview clip takes quite the journey around #American #CivilReligion.
The Revolution will be Ritualized.
The Culture War™ is the network society platform where merchants of tribes extract, transform, and load shibboleths into our memories on the cloud technostructure.
Many people have an aversion to data & history.
Fear and “loss aversion”, can lead to delaying valuable interventions, critical actions, or development of first-principles.
#tradition #CivilReligion #culture #SystemsThinking #data #intuition #CultureWar #BreatheAndPush #PointAndLaugh #history
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