We're All Religious (Original Cut)
Added 2025-08-22 20:36:08 +0000 UTCI've wanted to put together a visual production of the reflections on the sociology of religion, ideology, and embodied habit themes we cove
I've wanted to put together a visual production of the reflections on the sociology of religion, ideology, and embodied habit themes we covered last year—this is an attempt at synthesizing Durkheim and Althusser, and even Merleau-Ponty, while also using as little theory jargon as possible!
If this makes no sense to you check out pill pods 177 and 179 where the idea started.
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https://youtu.be/-rI2v-Lvkyw?si=B8J4CG1JvsJoO4yK
jimi cunningable
2025-10-08 22:12:14 +0000 UTCSo fire
James Moore
2025-09-15 19:28:47 +0000 UTCi just watched this religion video, and it is fascinating. Check out the very first question they tackle here, within the first 5-6 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBXMPaSKQaw This struck me immediately as "oh that's exactly what pills was saying in that religion video". In the west, we have this like, implicit understanding - unspoken - that we are all gonna go fuck off and do our own thing. Like even in families. My family doesn't really like, give a fuck that I'm struggling to cope with dishes for example. They see it more as a personal failing. And that's completely internalized in the west, it seems. All my best friends, when we get together, it's not like we're all concerned how someone is gonna get there, or get home etc. We'll help of course when directly asked. But otherwise we'll just assume, oh they got other shit to do, they'll find their ass home, they're good. They got enough groceries in the fridge. Dunno exactly what i'm getting at
COLD GETTING DUMB
2025-09-15 17:15:27 +0000 UTCDo you have much knowledge on Aboriginal Australian spirituality? I've been working in Aboriginal communities and in far north Australia and their kinship and spiritual structure is very complex and intentional. The songlines are especially interesting. It reinforces the culture and social structure. There's a reason Aboriginal people have survived genocides and colonisation.
I Hate Max
2025-08-26 10:01:53 +0000 UTCDid you watch to the end?
Alex McKechnie
2025-08-25 13:28:41 +0000 UTC15:30 "it's why you give up the seat on the subway to the pregnant lady." You should do a deep dive into Japanese public signage. For example, on trains they have icons for old people, disabled people, and pregnant people on the window behind special priority seating. And they have these little cartoon signs and symbols for literally *everything you do, everywhere you go*. Riding an escalator? Lots of signs of how to do that. They become in the sense you have been defining religion (i.e. learned social norms, waiting in line, quiet during performances, generally the *unwritten rules* etc.) the symbols and texts of the religion put on public display, now firmly and pervasively written, to ensure if the traditional reproduction centers of religion (i.e. family, tribe) fail, the new age stone carved 10 commandments are still ever present as an Other, an omniscient omnipresent social God, sometimes manifesting as anime cat girls making sure you remember to not yell in public. It's really fascinating.
ageOfBumFires
2025-08-24 12:56:45 +0000 UTCAs someone who’s becoming a religious studies teacher, this video really resonated with my own thoughts and frustrations - the way religion is taught in schools and how it’s understood is very contradictory (UK context). Thank you for your hard work, your mind is sublime ✨
Ami A
2025-08-24 08:11:08 +0000 UTCAre bees religious
Ashley H
2025-08-24 03:54:42 +0000 UTCThis is so good! I realy enjoyed the Plastic Pills on Religion series!!!!!!! , I PRAYED for a continuation and my prayers has been heard . I inscribe to thy oh pills prophet show us the origins , give us the earthly Theory and deliver us from the cults . Amen. (¬‿¬)
alexis kavas
2025-08-23 11:08:09 +0000 UTCgenuinely brillant stuff
hoppi
2025-08-23 08:18:57 +0000 UTCOh, also, at 23:00 or so, it's cool that religion encoded some knowledge of hygiene so the faithful didn't die as much, but you could also say it (for example) reified a lot of misogyny by labeling menstruating women as unclean, so I'm not sure that you can mark it as purely an adaptational advantage in a memetic competition among religions.
Tim G
2025-08-22 22:42:14 +0000 UTCI'm sympathetic to this project and I think the analysis is good, and I'm 100% not trying to pooh-pooh this. But I keep thinking that you could make mostly the same arguments and use the word "ideology" instead of "religion" and kind of wind up back at Althusser. I'd like for a finer distinction to be made between the two.
Tim G
2025-08-22 22:32:58 +0000 UTCAmazing work per usual thank you once again
Matt S
2025-08-22 21:49:56 +0000 UTC"We're full of religion now. Everyone, please, bow your heads and pretend to be serious." -His Holyness, Ignignokt
Profit Overlord
2025-08-22 21:39:32 +0000 UTC
