"Some of what he had to say was pretty accurate," says Ted Kaczynski. "I think a lot of people's mind in retrospect, minds, he was onto something." He wrote it down and put his ideas out there on the internet. A lot of social media stuff is parasocial: we're really desperate to find people that we agree with or like.
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In a time of increasing skepticism of globalization, stemming from losses in jobs, cultural heritage, and sovereignty over ones own homeland, nationalism has re-emerged onto the political stage in protest movements and increasingly populist governments. Christian nationalism, focused on the incorporation of church doctrine into a nation and often a sovereign, is not a new concept, stemming at least from the time of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, but recently has re-emerged as a potential solution to the social ills many societies face in the West. Tonight we are joined by Woe, co-host of the Stone Choir podcast, to make the case for how and why this might be a good way forward for many of the discontented souls of today.
