SAL RESTIVO'S BLOG: THE SOCIOLOGICAL COGITO

Thoughts on the firestorm of stupidity that is engulfing the 21st century    L'art de guillotiner les procréateurs: Manifeste anti-nataliste , T. de Giraud (2006) WAKE UP AND SMELL ETERNITY Ode to de Giraud  Hear ye Hear ye cried the voices of old puncture, cut, break up and fold                                                                                              Ice is better once it melts   better if it were something else if it had chosen never to be frozen   ...

  Beyond New Atheism and Theism: The Sociology of Science, Secularism, and Religiosity ROUTLEDGE, expected late 2023)   The debates between New Atheists and theists provide a jumping off point for Restivo’s wide-ranging sociological criticque of atheism and theism as incommensurable worldview.   Restivo builds this critique into a foundation for constructing a sociologically informed secular worldview opposed to antheism and theism.   ENDORSEMENTS Restivo uses sociology to analyze and transcend both the dogmatism of theology and the naïve science-worship of today’s New Atheists. God is a collective representation, the grounds for the social evolution of ethics as pragmatic rules for humans to get along. The individual is the intersection of social networks (as is science), and what both individuals and sciences do is socially real, path-dependent, and open-ended. We could call this network secularism, and it provides its own t...

I am leaving Linkedin.  In a few days I will send Routledge the completed manuscript for what will be my last book, Beyond New Atheism and Theism: A Sociology of Science, Secularism, and Religiosity (I am posting an outline of the book on my blog this afternoon).  It is an indictment of “the rational animal,” homo sapien, that I have had to write such a book in the 21st century to demonstrate why religion is real and god is not. I am tired of the reign of stupidity in Washington and around the world, the glorification of entrepreneurship and professionalism in a world being destroyed by the ideology of capitalism (the economy that never was, isn’t, and never will be), people who need coaches, people who want to be coaches, everyone acting as if it’s perfectly normal for billions of dollars (precious natural and human resources) to be used for war machines most of which will never be used, the lack of compassion for living, breathing human beings that gu...