@sarahdoingthing purely symbolic at the individual level, meaningless, who cares? but cold hard cash for the egregore--deference, status
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@sarahdoingthing now you can take that whole storyline and apply it to the issue of mohammed cartoons--except now the stakes are in blood1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing bureaucracy and law is like a skeleton for the most evolved (but slow, brittle) kinds of egregores1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing radically stabilizes their DNA/structure but only metabolically affordable for the biggest (unicellular life doesn't age!)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing alt. metaphor: states/corporations are demonic, are bound to *codes*--circles, contracts, codexes2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing other egregores are shamanic/divine--whimsical, unbindable, cryptic1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing (huge underappreciated spiritual technology triumph of chinese civilization was to bind all the little gods to heaven)3 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
@sarahdoingthing @St_Rev Petit, who coauthored with Seligman, has stuff on this. Expert on early Confucianism & stuff
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