Hmm ya. We are trying to reason about ecologies, after all. I do still find it curious that sometimes data immediately leads to behavior change and other times it takes repeated exposure. Habit as attractors -- glider guns in CA - of varying stability?
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Guru relationships are constructed to be basically induced bipolar disorder. They can only be at absolute trust and absolute betrayal, with no room for the more complex/complete kind based on qualified, context-sensitive trust. This is why I was never even remotely susceptible.
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That’s pretty much what the book says, yes
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The first time a guru type (well, a top acolyte of what was then a young movement and is now a huge one) tried to recruit me at age 19 it was so ludicrously easy for me to say, “duh, no” that it I was strongly struck by how willingly and eagerly others ceded agency to the guru
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Ha, wow. I would be amused to hear Joel or Diana's account of the experience, although now that I say that I think I can basically imagine how it would go. *sigh*
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