it's fascinating how much of politics both national and local boils down to pants-shitting fear of and accusations of the Wrong People controlling a narrative
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Who was recently analogizing the Burnt-Over District? Fear that other sects’ missionaries have already cordicepted all available victims. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_district …
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The fear seems realistic if you semi-realize you are cordicepted yourself.
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Another analogy: the massive moral panic around Cults in the 1970s, which were believed to be using spooky mind control methods.
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