Based Camp: Why Mormons Won't Inherit the Earth

This was written by an AI, not me: In this video, we delve into a nuanced understanding of conservatism, progressivism, traditionalism, and accelerationism. The goal is to dissect these ideologies and identify their manifestations within various societal structures and cultures. As part of this exploration, we respond to a viewer's question about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, colloquially known as Mormonism. Through our personal experiences and observations, we share insights into Mormon culture and its place on the axes of conservatism-progressivism and traditionalism-accelerationism. We also discuss the impact of societal norms, changing technology, and progressive threats on these cultures and religious communities. This conversation aims to provide an enriching perspective on how societal cultures evolve and adapt in the face of constant change. Whether you're interested in the sociopolitical landscape, religious studies, or an engaging discussion about social norms and cultural evolution, this video will give you plenty to think about. Watch till the end for a deeper understanding of societal cultures, the importance of adaptability, and a fresh perspective on Mormonism. Transcript from AI:I will describe this graph . It has two a axis. Okay. This a axis is progressive to conservative. Mm-hmm. Okay.

Progressive means more like the dominant urban monoculture. Conservative means more deviant from the dominant culture. Okay. Then the other axi is traditionalist versus acceleration. Okay. It's easy to confuse these two axes and think that accelerationist means progressive and traditionalist means conservative.

Yeah. And these are two completely unrelated things, and in fact, Generally the most accelerationist cultures are also the most conservative cultures and the most conservative cultures are often the most accelerationist cultures because they need to protect themselves from the dominant societal culture.

That's goal is to stamp out any anyone who's doing their own thing, any signs of true diversity within society. This progressive monoculture will eventually inject itself into the central church. It will eventually eat the central church.

This virus is incredibly good at corrupting everything, especially large bureaucracies. The larger and more entrenched the bureaucracy is the more susceptible it is, and it is a miracle that the central church hasn't been eaten yet, but it will be

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Absolutely spectacular. So this video is in relation to a user comment who is something like, I'm a Mormon. What do you guys think of Mormons? Um, Now keep it, we know enough about Mormons to know that the church deemed that term offensive. Was it like eight years ago?

What did they

call it? One of the council? Yeah. But members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints doesn't exactly roll off the tone. Yeah. You're not

allowed to use l d s either.

And you know, my friends who, so for, for context, from soup to nuts. I've been adjacent to Mormon communities.

In preschool. I went to a Mormon preschool, it was called Class A Tiny World, and I loved it. And everyone was Mormon except for like me and a few other kids. And then I. Went to college, their

parents pulled her out cuz she started asking them about Bible stuff and they freaked out cuz they're like extremist progressives.

Well, no,

that's, that's just when they started sending me school, that's when they started sending me to Dharma school. They didn't take me outta that daycare because it was the best ever because Mormons are the best ever. And then I went to, College and pretty much only had Mormon friends because my roommate out of freshman year was Mormon.

I tend to avoid people and only like befriend people that I work with. So I just had work colleagues and then my like recreational friends were Mormons and members of the local singles award. And I loved it and I loved Mormons, but also like even within community, they refer to themselves internally, like as like.

They'd be like, are you a mo? Like, like they don't even say Mormon. So how can we be at fault for not calling, you know, people, members of the church, of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint when they're all like, are you an ex mo? Are you a mo? Like, you know,

come on guys. Well, and you also did, you didn't drink when I met you and stuff like that.

No.

Well, I mean, when all of your friends and morons. Yeah.

Why would you buy, I, I told her on the first date, I go, this isn't gonna work unless you drink. So I ordered her uh, uh, uh, uh, what, what a cocktail. I was like, That

was your loss, Malcolm. You paid through the nose for that Cocktails in San Francisco.

I mean, god knows now you can probably buy, like, you know, for the price, you'd get a cocktail. You could have gotten a car like 10 years ago. Um, But yeah, so I. We we're gonna call them Mormons, because that's, that's just what people do.

It's actually a very interesting community and a very interesting culture that we really highlighted in the last video.

So I think one of the things that we admire about. Mormonism as a cultural tradition is it is such an accelerationist cultural tradition. And I think that this is where society, we see things. As, as Simone often mistakenly does on a spectrum of conservatism to progressivism. But conservatism to progressivism is really just a spectrum of how much do you bend the need to whatever the prevailing social norms are of your society, which right now is the mind virus.

So that is one axis of a spectrum. And, and, and Mormons do not bend the knee very much. So they are on the far conservative side of that spectrum. But then the other axis of the spectrum is traditionalist versus accelerationist. And the traditionalist versus accelerationist is How much do you, and how aggressively do you adapt your traditions and change your traditions to try to compete with a changing environment, changing technology and to react to what often are the progressive threats to more conservative movements.

So what you will often find, Is that the most accelerationist movements are often some of the most conservative movements because they are the movement's most aggressively under threat from the, progressive hive mind that wants to attack anyone , in any culture that deviates from it and deviates from its sort of approved ideas, morality, and way of doing things.

So, Mormons are very accelerationist in that respect. What, what would you say your general read of Mormons is? And I can, I can give you mine as well.

So, as an outsider, my T L D R is Mormons among modern. US based religious communities have the best lifestyle. It's like they're kind of like the Disney of Lifestyles.

You know? You can really get into it. It's very appealing. It's very warm and friendly and family friendly, and you may not agree with all of it. Like you may, you may be of Disney family and not like the prices they charge or not like the way that they run their corporation or think that they killed Star Wars, but you still just.

It's a great place to go on vacations. Your kids love it. You know, you like the, a lot of the movies, so you just become a Disney family, and I think a lot of people. Stay with the church or even join the church because of the lifestyle. And they don't necessarily buy into the religious doctrine though. I, I do think that many more people are leaving the church now because both the religious doctrine isn't holding up.

I think really that well in the age of the internet. And also because especially like women I know read a lot of the. Well, I hear a lot of sort of the stances on women and their positions and it just, it's really hard to both become educated and to be ambitious and to