Feb 24, 2024
Well, that's pretty much the thesis of this article, and I'm saying it's consistent with mysticism and with secular humanism.
The point is that when we treat some public spaces as sacred, we're repeating an existential pattern. What's primarily sacred is the anomaly of each personal self, lost as that self is in an impersonal universe of wild, monstrous, amoral constructs of physical forces and elements. Social sacredness derives from the inner, existential kind.