Societies are forced into rationalism only when cannibalism—the natural alternative—fails. https://meaningness.com/systematic-mode pic.twitter.com/liPj0xaesr
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Societies are forced into rationalism only when cannibalism—the natural alternative—fails. https://meaningness.com/systematic-mode pic.twitter.com/liPj0xaesr
The story about the snake is still "cutting it" for more than half the population of the USA!
Yes… sort of… that one is a special complicated case. Partly, Kegan found only 1/3 of Americans are cognitive systematic, >
> despite living in a systematic society; rest are cognitively “traditional,” “communal,” or “pre-rational,” or in transition.
But also American fundamentalism was, in its conception and leadership, a systematic justification for pre-rational beliefs >
(discussed in the https://meaningness.com/countercultures section, over several pages.)
Also also, I don’t think anyone meaningfully “believes” the snake story; claims to are tribal signaling, not actual belief.
Eventually I probably have to discuss “belief” in detail, but here’s a bit in https://meaningness.com/countercultures-reject-rationality …pic.twitter.com/eHdwrcNSdG
Belief is a subject I have been focussed on for many years now.
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