27/ I'm not saying that we'll do exactly what our heroes would do, but that our own personal Overton windows for actions and reactions are defined by the tropes and patterns we see in culture.
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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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There's always iconoclasm. Your reward center is part personal, part social. The two can be in tension, but as lots of heroes, saints et al point out, you can optimize for the personal one. The net result of that is part of your conversation upstream of culture
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Interesting to think about Catholicism's formalized sainthood in this framework
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