Like Igzy, I'm not sure that it is as useful as Indiana does. But it is his thing.
But I did note something in Ohio's comment on Indiana's article that has had me thinking for some time. Here is the quote:
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In 1974, during the peak of the blessing upon the Recovery
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My concern is that we tend to glamorize, or at least over-state the attributes of the LRC prior to Lee's 1974 shenanigans.
Was there really so much "blessing" compared to other places? Or are we granting "blessing" status to our exuberance and our wense of freedom from what we disliked about "old" ways? Was the appeal of the LRC that it was different enough for people who didn't want to stay in the sect that they were born into.
And it was wrapped in the mistaken notion of specialness when it was really just the kind of different that
we were looking for. Others were looking for a different kind of different. The "difference" in the two is that one (the LRC) thought their version of "different" was the center of God's heart.