there's the kind of reality that's assembled out of self-serving motivated reasoning and fashionability, and the kind that isn't negotiable. the gear slippage between them is always and forever lubricated with the blood of scapegoats
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This is a bit too abstract for me tbh
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i mean that the tension between "if we make the right sacrifices, the crops will grow" and the actual factors determining the behavior of the crops is resolved by "the cops didn't grow, therefore the unpopular people must not have made proper sacrifice, let us punish them"
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Yes. But that's nothing. It can become autocatalyzing: presenting the reality of reactive mob violence to the mob can incite the mob to reaction. This is why it's bad to call Nazi's Nazi's. First, because they might notice. Second, because if it's true it will catalyze either way
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