The Religious Right and New Age Left both promoted time-distorting meta-myths—imaginary past golden ages and implausible future utopias—to hide their defects.   https://meaningness.com/counterculture-history-myths   Fundamentalism is not traditional; it is a modern, countercultural movement, opposed to tradition and to post-modernity.   https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism   This references David Chapman's essay on another site, "Ritual Vs Mentalism":   https://vividness.live/ritual-vs-mentalism   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.