@sarahdoingthing something about construction of sacredness as weapon of intragroup warfare
@sarahdoingthing One infers that it's because it intersects usefully with the natural tendencies of Islamic scripture: it *reads* as holy...
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@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? -
@St_Rev coordination *by method of preference falsification* is hard to conceptualize but wow lol -
@St_Rev maybe it's not preference falsification so much as preference husbandry -
@sarahdoingthing Seems like preference falsification allows kinds of cohesion that would otherwise be impossible. -
@sarahdoingthing ie bad for people, bad for human goals, but seems really incredibly great for the egregore - 3 more replies
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