Weaponized Sacredness http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/weaponized-sacredness/ … ...in case you thought ritual was a fun and safe hobby
@othercriteria @cathodion @sarahdoingthing A thoughtform that invokes/spawns secondary riots as a tool is something v. complex eg Marxism.
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@othercriteria@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Another analogy to throw on the pile here: Conway's Life. Glider gun complexity >>> glider. -
@othercriteria@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Think of humans as the cells, speech as the transition rule... -
@St_Rev@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Taking this chance to flog my weird Life variant, and its egregoric reading. http://mesokurtosis.com/posts/2015-02-19-lif.html … -
@St_Rev@cathodion@sarahdoingthing Humans are cells, speech conveys rules, complex rules lose to simple ones, empty humans get susceptible. -
@othercriteria@sarahdoingthing somehow this gives me (?)insight that fitness w/in a meme's domain is v. diff. from its fitness at boundary -
@othercriteria@sarahdoingthing successful egregore must win at boundary with/in competition against others, without tearing itself apart -
@othercriteria@sarahdoingthing From that perspective, something like SJW is more like a moving wave front: tearing up rival subcultures but - 7 more replies
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