@sarahdoingthing in academic/prog culture it becomes a very different metaphor. few collisions for a long time bc it's moderately obscure
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@St_Rev bureaucracy kaiju -
@sarahdoingthing bureaucracy and law is like a skeleton for the most evolved (but slow, brittle) kinds of egregores -
@sarahdoingthing radically stabilizes their DNA/structure but only metabolically affordable for the biggest (unicellular life doesn't age!) -
@sarahdoingthing alt. metaphor: states/corporations are demonic, are bound to *codes*--circles, contracts, codexes -
@sarahdoingthing other egregores are shamanic/divine--whimsical, unbindable, cryptic -
@sarahdoingthing (huge underappreciated spiritual technology triumph of chinese civilization was to bind all the little gods to heaven) -
@St_Rev How did they accomplish it? -
@sarahdoingthing Extending the cultural triumph of the Han to the spirit world, I think. Enshrined the Yellow Emperor. - 10 more replies
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