@sarahdoingthing purely symbolic at the individual level, meaningless, who cares? but cold hard cash for the egregore--deference, status
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@sarahdoingthing ie answer is supercomplex and probably requires understanding the entire cultural tradition--beyond human grasp -
@sarahdoingthing (Lovecraftian/Landian connection there--the King in Yellow, the Yellow Emperor--egregores are real, unknowable, gigantic) -
@St_Rev I wonder if it makes sense to say they have their own agency - being treated as if you have agency seems to make it kind of true -
@St_Rev in terms of real-world effects, even if you don't technically exist or have a mind separate from human minds -
@sarahdoingthing Chinese room tho. There's the mind of the individual (actually a chaos of submodules) & then there's the network. -
@sarahdoingthing 'agency' is a quick and dirty way of contextualizing the temporal activity of entropy-climbers -
@St_Rev monotheism (and corresponding monosatanism that goes with it) - a form of binding small gods to heaven? -
@sarahdoingthing much more crude--burn the dreamtime down, salt the earth. works for desert barbarians I guess! - 2 more replies
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Celestial Bureaucracy is the best kindThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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