Maybe concedes too much in accepting the movement’s self-framing as moral and political? Whereas its main method, of inventing taboos and purification rituals and ensnaring rulers in them, is more analogous to priestly conversion drives (as you’ve pointed out often yourself).
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I read it as being about what such a tendency feels like from the inside, which provides a context for interpreting the behavior of the infected.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.