Anyway I‘m casting around for some other way of thinking about the current craziness that’s not just cultural fascism. Like it might also be mass affluence and the poor fit of the existing education system for citizenship in a disorienting but richer world
HirschmanIt was in this lower middle “half-educated” and newly mobile and anxious group that the Eastern mystery cults found popularity, and of course Gnostic and Pauline Christianity.