25/ The gods of a given era are important to understand how people will spend money and how they will vote ... but they're also important because we each precompute and precache possible reactions to situations.
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37/ It will not surprise you to learn that I (a socialcon, a rationalist (broadly speaking, not Big Yud trademarked version), and a Catholic) am absolutely appalled by the post-civilization / anti-civilization slate of heroes and tropes that our current cultural betters prepare.
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38/ I talked earlier about fixed points in computations. Societies can not be static, and so they will always evolve, and their tropes and heroes and gods will change over time. We have seen, in the New Ideology, a huge act of myth/hero/god-making in just a few decades >
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39/ Stonewall Riots, Summer of Love, 1960s radical nubian goddess activist, etc.pic.twitter.com/vD8egBpeyO
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40/ the right has created far fewer new hero-gods during this period, but it has done one or two e.g. Tony Starkpic.twitter.com/lK2Eiazf5c
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44/ I suspect that the left's new gods, while much louder and bigger, are not fixed points. childless-gay-sports-woman seems like she can peel off a lot of believers from older gods in societal iteration #498, but I'm not sure how many believers she'll have in iteration #499
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