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/
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Replying to @KevinSimler @wordpressdotcom
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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I'm tempted to describe a person who is engaging in Ra thinking as a combo of "Useful Idiot" & "True Believer".
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Would a person who only values a title when it is given to them by someone else, rather than something they give themselves, be Ra thinking?
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"Belief" in "the law" seems like Ra thinking too.
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Yeah, maybe the rare Ra-ish attitude I'd endorse
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