there's a lot of unfathomable behavior that gets surfaced by/for/from/to the internet but the fact that anybody whatsoever could give that much shit about the edgy merch sold by a second rate web comic site is beyond me
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that probably has some undesirable subtext, please forgive my accidental *-centrism (or whatever I said wrong)
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I resent these old folks more than any whitey westerner ever could, so no offense taken
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we have lots of old folks with absurd pre-modern magical belief systems in America too. i'm sincerely curious how much overlap these groups have. i bet it's a lot.
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I sort of object to the term "pre-modern" because, well, these things are kind of historically stable to a ridiculous degree, kind of like schizophrenic delusion "plot arch" is stable
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My shrink ex liked to point out that while the content specifics of delusions in a number of delusional disorders borrow (obviously) from culture the patient is member of, the overall structure ("plot arch" in a sense) of delusions in those disorders is cross-culturally stable
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like, a person from a rural Muslim background would think that the Djinn is meddling with him, and a rural American will blame Satan or CIA mind control chemtrails... but both will contain delusions of influence (often hostile), later delusion of grandeur (being important
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enough to be of interest to those vast supernatural forces) etc. Like, there's an underlying fundamental process that determines a certain cognitive inclination and a type of experience, but explanations and specific details are "painted in" from external sources
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So I've come to think of these "patriarchy" / "male gaze" / "evil eye" / "spooky media influences" / "bad wizards that will curse and manipulate you if they learn your birth name" /"evil spirits that listen in for you to announce your plans and go gremlin on them" as a sort of
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yes, but I am not sure "absurd" is the right word, also I'm not sure aggressive intermixing of Christianity, [data expunged] and [redacted] can be considered pre-modern.
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These are very self-consistent and aggressively evidence-consistent beliefs, they are just unfalsifiable (mostly) and have some exotic premises.
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persistent delusions have to be evidence-consistent, they just need to restrict the domain of admissible evidence to only things that either support the belief or are trivially refuted
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