Because humans always have within them the capacity to create these things. As soon as there is a human or two, there is the possibility of an egregore; and the possibility of that egregore will whisper in those humans ears. The egregore is at *least* as old as humanity.
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Worth noting: I don't think of egregores as simply a metaphor for cooperation. It seems to me that when humans cooperate as a community, each individual is often *most themselves*, while also being part of this larger whole. I don't see an egregore there.https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1197193534736158721?s=20 …
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I see egregores where systems develop desires and purposes that are orthogonal/contrary to those of their constituent humans. Often in soul-crushing, barbaric ways. When I wanted to learn more about this I read about corrupt police systems:https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1192463425416433665?s=20 …
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When this happens, it's almost always because the constituent humans have (somewhat unknowingly) handed over some of their power to this other entity.https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1197193508182003712?s=20 …
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Why this happens varies from case to case, but at the most abstract always has to do with people wanting to defend themselves from perceived scarcity. It's motivated by a fear of being vulnerable/powerless. So it's a striving for power motivated by fear.https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1195578525132177413?s=20 …
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And so the leader of an org/community/family might become afraid of the inherent risk of being a leader, the vulnerability locked up in it, and instead lead by systems/algorithms/metrics to buffer him from blame/responsibility.https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1195581383718195200?s=20 …
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Poor Yorick @a_fellow_ofOdgovor korisnicima @a_fellow_of @mumsimumbusFeel like your insight on egregores gaining power by getting authorities to hide behind systemization is super relevant here; it feels like your not blameworthy if the system fails, but really you were just closing your eyes rather than staying woke1 reply 0 proslijeđenih tweetova 2 korisnika označavaju da im se sviđaPrikaži ovu nit -
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Or they might become afraid of confronting and removing evil, and so allow it to continue unchecked, slowly making the whole system corrupt and ungovernable--the BPD taught me this.https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1192463366712897536?s=20 …
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In each of these cases, it's not quite *chaos* that breaks out; if you step back and look at it, the system has desires of its own, and it takes advantage of humans surrendering authority out of fear to bring those desires to reality. And it hates humans.https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1189243840940654592?s=20 …
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This implies to me that it's not the system; it's something above and beyond the system that is governing it, that has other desires. You can notice this if you try to pin down what you mean by "systemic racism"https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1133353424517513216?s=20 …
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Poor Yorick @a_fellow_ofBut we don’t really know what those words mean. Systemic racism is a great example. It’s not the laws, though they’re shaped by it; it’s not quite culture or individual failings or economic forces, though they’re all shaped by it. It’s something behind and above all those things.Prikaži ovu nit1 reply 0 proslijeđenih tweetova 2 korisnika označavaju da im se sviđaPrikaži ovu nit -
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This is an old idea, that human power systems are themselves connected to non-physical realities. Paul's "We wrestle not against flesh but against the powers," Jesus' exorcisms (of demons named after Roman Legions!). John the Revelator is all about this!https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1133353415730446337?s=20 …
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Poor Yorick @a_fellow_ofThe NT writers had an answer to this: powers, principalities, demons. For them, the social and spiritual worlds weren’t neatly divided; they bled into each other. In John’s Revelation, the dragon Satan hands power over to the Beast of the Roman Empire. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13&version=ESV&interface=amp …Prikaži ovu nit1 reply 0 proslijeđenih tweetova 2 korisnika označavaju da im se sviđaPrikaži ovu nit
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My contention is that you understand the world *much* better if you view it through the lens of these powers fighting against humanity and the forces of life and creation. Egregores are dead, blind things that we feed by our surrendering to fear and deathhttps://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1197193513185742848?s=20 …
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This is the logic of the Christian story: we have all, in some way, chosen death, and created a world in which death is in charge--because we unanimously voted for it, it rules us, and rules every new human to enter the world that we've put it in charge ofhttps://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1197193558912057344?s=20 …
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But Christ comes in and refuses to bend the knee, refuses to be anything but fully human and alive, never once gives into fear or vulnerability but trusts God instead; and this actually kills him. He loses. Because death really is in chargehttps://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1195578560611848193?s=20 …
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Poor Yorick @a_fellow_ofBecause the system *is* built to reward resume-building—Egypt is real. People who resume build will almost certainly get power faster than people who don’t. And so the first step is ceasing to be particularly impressed with Egypt’s prizes, with baubles/prestigePrikaži ovu nit1 reply 0 proslijeđenih tweetova 2 korisnika označavaju da im se sviđaPrikaži ovu nit -
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But death's position is unstable: God made humans to be in charge, and it only takes one of them actually living up to that for death to be kicked off the throne.https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1133353439738683394?s=20 …
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Poor Yorick @a_fellow_ofThe secret is to reject the Powers and their strategies completely. That’s the logic of the resurrection; the Power called death can kill a man who never surrendered his allegiance, but it can’t keep him dead. And it can’t survive his resurrection long either.Prikaži ovu nit0 replies 0 proslijeđenih tweetova 2 korisnika označavaju da im se sviđaPrikaži ovu nit
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