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 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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"the educated white westerner modern person" is as likely to be afflicted as the old person from Shitcraterstania, and the delusion will follow same general trends and inclinations down to same types of items being "focal points/agents of Le Ebilz", but the white westerner will
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have different specifics of the plot (will use "transhistorical phenomenon" instead of "motherfucking evil ghost", and will often go to great length to construct a narrative about how the "transhistorical phenomenon" is not supernatural, etc.)
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