Let's say you're part of a sterile subculture wracked with purity spirals. For some odd reason, it doesn't create much! 2/
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Another tribe is producing tons of cool, neat, fun stuff. But they're evil! How can you take their stuff? It's got cooties. 3/
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You need...a Priesthood™! They can tell you how to ritually cleanse the cool neat fun stuff. All they ask for is writing gigs and tenure. 4/
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This is a variant of the process in
@Meaningness's essay "Geeks, MOPs and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution": https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths … 5/ -
4chan and related sites create joy and give it away to the world for free. This is intolerable to sociopaths; joy is a *power source*. 6/
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Untamed creators must be punished. Not enough to stop them producing! But all must understand: creators are actually very bad people. 7/
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This gives your sociopathic would-be priesthood an excuse to interpose themselves, ie take a cut of the flow of power. 8/
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This is parallel to recent open source history: entryists preying on a gift economy by inventing sins they can then forgive, for $$$. 9/
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One could also point to horrors like the field of bioethics, but then we'd be here all night. 10/10
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if "Nazis" have memetic sovereignty, everyone should examine why their culture can't produce anything fresh anymore
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