Thread on the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country, about the 1980s guru-worshipping Rajneesh/Osho cult city in Oregon:
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The small, but immense, logical shift from ‘our free society is for everyone’ to ‘protect our free society for everyone from threats’ is the mechanical slip from monism to dualism.
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I say ‘mechanical’ because without being meta to the psychological logic of the process, ie without awareness, the socio-ideological trajectory is predictable; it’s automatic.
@Meaningness writes about monist-dualist recursion athttps://meaningness.com/monism-dualism-recursion …Show this thread -
From that page: “The amount of pressure for conformity, and for rejection of outsiders is a measure of how pathologically dualistic the group’s functioning is.” applies as appropriately to the small-towners as to the Rajneeshies
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