what does it say about society that it takes courage to follow one's intuitions?
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I think this is a fairly fundamental human problem, although it's pretty hard to separate out centuries of deliberate and accidental social engineering from whatever species-level substrate.
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i wonder if there have been times and places where intuitions were trusted and relied upon more than today (inb4 it's an overgeneralization)
ancient Greece? bicameral mind?
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Specific cities and eras, certainly, by all available historical evidence.
It's more, I think, about competitive pressures. Ideological buy-in seems to be fairly fundamental to how the modern (super)state structures itself.
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I suspect part of the collapse of state power which seems to be rapidly unfolding in front of us has to do with narrative disintegration.
The media have been too decentralized, but are also superseded by computers, or more formally, machines.
Not that any of this is remotely original thought on my part, but, that's how it seem.
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The disturbing part, though, is that it seems like people are now under *more* pressure to obey, mistrust themselves, engage in learned helplessness.
"Computer says no," increasingly becoming word of god, rather than an indication of failure on the part of the state/corporation.
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