@sarahdoingthing purely symbolic at the individual level, meaningless, who cares? but cold hard cash for the egregore--deference, status
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@sarahdoingthing now you can take that whole storyline and apply it to the issue of mohammed cartoons--except now the stakes are in blood1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing bureaucracy and law is like a skeleton for the most evolved (but slow, brittle) kinds of egregores1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@sarahdoingthing radically stabilizes their DNA/structure but only metabolically affordable for the biggest (unicellular life doesn't age!)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing alt. metaphor: states/corporations are demonic, are bound to *codes*--circles, contracts, codexes2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing This is very nearly the premise of Max Gladstone's fantasy series, in which wizards and lawyers are the same thing.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@GrumplessGrinch@sarahdoingthing This is a major aspect of the Daoist priesthood--combination lawyer/ghostbuster for dealing w/spirits1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@GrumplessGrinch@sarahdoingthing Confucians for the rites of human society, Daoists for the rites of the spirit world.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@GrumplessGrinch @sarahdoingthing Like Mr. Vampire where the Daoists bind vampires by *literally* tacking scrolls to their foreheads.
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