Read this over a week ago but can't stop thinking about. Now that it's been pointed out, I see it everywherehttps://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/
My shorthand summary: Ra is the common-knowledge component of prestige, separate from the first-order qualities that typically confer it.
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Museums, for example, are governed by Ra — at least the shitty pretentious aspect of them that everyone hates.
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finally made me realize why I hate museums so much and feel in such a horrible fog inside them. Lol.
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this seems wrong. common knowledge tends to destroy this type of bullshit rather than create it
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how about "consensus delusion" instead of "common knowledge"?
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Ra as blindness to direct experience in the face of consensus for the special case of prestige? I suspect a link to prestige's…
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I like that formulation.
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