Every stable cult has norms to ensure that members cannot recognize it as a cult; the most common one is that the member is not allowed to try to properly understand the other cults, and cannot be allowed to touch their memetic contraband.
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Replying to @Plinz
I'd go perhaps a step further and suggest that humans have evolved psych facilities directly supporting cult norms like that... shame and disgust responses strike me as strong mechanisms for memetic contraband.
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Interesting thought I had a while back: if a 'cult'/group/tribe is not able to support their members, higher rates of immune dysfunction (via low food, health etc) might lead to children with less disgust responses and more social aversion. A naturally balancing system.
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Replying to @ultimape
not sure what you mean and where that happens? memetic disgust seems to be independent of physiological disgust?
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Replying to @Plinz
outgroup disgust response is interesting and complex. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-disease-theory-of-xenophobia/423975/ … and perhaps associated with depression. "The depression group also displayed a specific deficit in the recognition of facial expressions of disgust, compared with controls." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20679270
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I'm mostly speculating at some complex nonlinear phenomena occurring.
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don't we all. I mean in a general sense, in every moment of our lifes
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