# Vocabulary Back to [[Religion, Trust and Civilization]] | Term | Meaning | Where it shows up | |---|---|---| | **Big Gods** | Moralizing, all-knowing, punishing deities. The hypothesis says belief in them enabled large-scale cooperation (Norenzayan 2013). | Essay ¶4; [[Research and Evidence#1. The Big Gods hypothesis (watching gods and trust between strangers)\|Research §1]] | | **Moralizing high gods** | Seshat's term for gods that care about human morality. Used in the retracted 2019 *Nature* paper and the 2022 retake. | Research §1 | | **Supernatural punishment hypothesis** | The fear of divine punishment deters cheating (Johnson & Bering). | Research §1 | | **High-trust / low-trust society** | Societies where most people trust strangers (Denmark 74%) vs. where trust stays within kin. Fukuyama, *Trust* (1995). | Essay ¶4; "Being good" (Oct 23) | | **WEIRD** | Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (Henrich). A psychology shaped by the Church's family program. | Research §2 | | **Marriage and Family Program (MFP)** | Henrich's name for the medieval Church's bans on cousin marriage, polygyny and adoption, which broke up clans. | Research §2 | | **Theological incorrectness** | Barrett's term for people reasoning about God anthropomorphically despite professing abstract doctrine. | Essay ¶3; Research §3 | | **Chesterton's fence** | Don't remove an institution until you understand why it was put there (*The Thing*, 1929). | Essay ¶8 | | **Lindy effect** | The longer something non-perishable has survived, the longer it is expected to survive (Taleb). The implicit logic of "nothing that old survives by accident". | Essay ¶6 | | **Survivorship bias** | Inferring quality from the survivors while ignoring why the others died out. | Analysis, claim 8 | | **Imago Dei** | "Image of God" (Genesis 1:27), the root of human dignity in Christian thought. | Companion post; @theRTcafe reply | | **Espoir / Espérance** | French: hope *for* something vs. hope as a virtue. Péguy's "second virtue". | Companion post | | **Dominicantes** | The share of Catholics attending Sunday Mass (Polish Church statistics). | Research, fertility table | | **TFR** | Total fertility rate: births per woman over a lifetime at current rates. Replacement is about 2.1. | Research, fertility table | | **Mental communism** | Szczawiński's coinage: "a state of mind in which reality no longer exists. Only wishes…" | Profile; Left-Right topic | | **Our Civilization** | His capitalized term for the Western tradition of reason, liberty and Christianity. Critics mocked it (@HideYourKids0). | Essay ¶1 | | **Religion of Life (and Fertility)** | His proposed non-dogmatic civil faith centred on children and the future (Oct 15, 2026). | Related Trends §1 | | **Long march through the institutions** | Rudi Dutschke's phrase, popularly linked to Gramsci's cultural hegemony. The subject of the essay Musk called "Illuminating". | Profile | | **Hegemony** (*egemonia*) | Gramsci: a ruling group leads by winning consent in civil society (schools, press, churches, associations), "protected by the armour of coercion". | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **War of position / war of manoeuvre** | Gramsci's military metaphor (Q7 §16): in the West the State is "only an outer ditch" behind "a powerful system of fortresses and earthworks", so a frontal assault (manoeuvre, as in 1917) fails, and a long struggle for civil society (position) is needed. | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **Philosophy of praxis** | Gramsci's name for Marxism in the Notebooks; partly a code under censorship, partly his own unity of theory and practice (disputed). | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **Modern Prince** | Gramsci's name for the revolutionary party, after Machiavelli's *Prince* (Q13 §1): a collective organism that "takes the place of the divinity or the categorical imperative" in men's consciences. | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **Absolute historicism** | Gramsci (Q11 §27): "the absolute secularisation and earthliness of thought, an absolute humanism of history". No transcendent order; human nature as "the totality of historically determined social relations". | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **Common sense** (*senso comune*) | Gramsci: the unexamined, layered worldview of ordinary people. Hegemony works through it; the party should raise it to "good sense". | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **The "simple"** (*i semplici*) | Gramsci's term for ordinary believers. The Church keeps them united with the intellectuals but leaves them where they are; the philosophy of praxis "is the antithesis of the Catholic" and aims to raise them. | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **Economism** | The view that economics directly determines politics and culture. Gramsci rejected it, but not economics itself: hegemony "must also be economic". | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] (claim 12) | | **Chain of equivalence** | Laclau and Mouffe (1985): different democratic demands (feminist, anti-racist, ecological, workers') linked against a common adversary, replacing the working class as the privileged subject. | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **Suicide of the revolution** | Del Noce's thesis (*Il suicidio della rivoluzione*, 1978): Marxism dissolves into the nihilistic, affluent "technological society" it set out to overthrow. | [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)\|Gramsci analysis]] | | **Cultural Marxism** | A polemical label for the Frankfurt School plus Gramscian strategy as a plan to subvert Western culture. Used by @noFrontMilitar; academics treat it as a conspiracy framing more than a school. | @noFrontMilitar profile |