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@sarahdoingthing But drawing a border invites a fight. If one is to do so, it is beneficial to draw in a way that makes a winnable fight. -
@sarahdoingthing So: pick a distinction that puts the outsiders on the back heel. ex: Islam does not and has never had a universal taboo... -
@sarahdoingthing ...on images of Muhammad. But insurgent puritan movements keep recreating that taboo over and over in Islam's history. -
@sarahdoingthing One infers that it's because it intersects usefully with the natural tendencies of Islamic scripture: it *reads* as holy... -
@sarahdoingthing ...both to the puritan insurgents and the compromising mainstream. cf. the Burroughs prose I linked. -
@St_Rev one of the deepest examples of this that I have seen is the cult of personality thing http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2011/03/simple-model-of-cults-of-personality.html …pic.twitter.com/Beva0EfNVe
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@St_Rev especially "This is true of all mechanisms that induce preference falsification, however: they prevent coordination." -
@St_Rev so when does sacredness induce preference falsification? is that perhaps its actual main job? can it be harnessed/moderated? - 7 more replies
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