3/A stagehand was whistling in the theater, and I told him to stop because it was bad luck. He said he didn't go in for that sort of thing.
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4/I used to agree, but now I enforce theater superstitions religiously. Shows have a million moving parts; someone will fuck up eventually
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5/Shifting some blame off that person and onto the theater ghost or whatever is massively useful for preserving morale.
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@sarahdoingthing has made the point (forget where) that it's psychologically healthy for individuals to blame misfortunes on fey meddling2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
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7/but it's even more vital in group endeavors. Actually believing, not alieving, the superstition is still bad, though.
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Very nice. But can you really choose your aliefs? It seems like what you are talking about is closer to "belief-in-belief"?
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Pascal proposes that you can change your beliefs by force, but I think his argument only applies to aliefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager#Inability_to_believe …
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I think belief-in-belief isn't simply what you say; there is an emotional component. You really WANT to believe you believe.
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@Meaningness talked about "as-if"-beliefs (acting as if your belief was true, b/c if everyone acts as-if, the system works).1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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which steals the idea from the book I summarized in https://vividness.live/2015/04/04/ritual-vs-mentalism … which
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I'm skeptical of their putting Confucius on the ritual team: I read the Analects after this book
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