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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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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subclinical and currently not recognized delusional disorder that follows same fundamental architecture of having "firmware style" hard set overall plot architecture, and specific details of the scenario being painted in from afflicted person's environment
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