He was elevated to the rank of highest guru in the universe by a bunch of rich English folks. Once they put him in charge of this vast & rich organization, his first act was to dissolve the organization. Totally punk rock.
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Yeah, I get that. It’s a religion for most people, in the popular sense of how religion is understood. Deconstructing that is an important developmental leap. Reintegrating healthy forms of authority (inner and outer sources) is for me a yet further step of development.
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Here’s the problem: if no one can tell each other something more true then they can tell themselves (I.e. there’s no authority) then no one will call out bullshit if/when they see it. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST GIFTS WE CAN GIVE EACH OTHER!!!!
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yes, of course, but there is an enormous and impactful difference between being persuasive and using power to enforce conformity of thought. Argument from authority is one of the worst fallacious positions but it's the default for most religious communities.
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Yes, so for those of us who have clearly left that behind (or say that we have!) why are we still so focused in the rearview mirror? What lies beyond this differentiation of power? Integration, I think. Better ways of working with power than self-contradictory rejection.pic.twitter.com/KsA9cKuHTR
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It’s a massive exercise of power to say that I’m the locust of power and that others aren’t.
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It’s also delusional when viewing things from a networked, instead, of individualist standpoint. We are constantly influencing each other in ways that are hard to combat, even here on twitter.
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