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1. this is different than the late 60s because by and large institutions were run by conservatives at that time. Now to the extent that institutions are run by conservatives, they're constrained by internal commissars and potential civil liability
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my point is not that conservatives or leftists or w/e are good or bad, simply that casting this as a street revolt against entrenched oppositions is incorrect except to the extent that police are still a basically-conservative institution, perhaps one of the few so theres that
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2. Once more speaking positively (vs normatively), one area in which traditionally-understood religious institutions have lost influence is in the setting of public morals and agendas. Rather the moral valence of any particular policy seems to be determined by social scientists
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This is not a particularly novel observation ("the Cathedral") but I think it's worth highlighting individually elements of the set of social functions that were previously carried out by religious institutions rather than rolling them into a single low-resolution item.
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Other examples include charity and education, which were historically the domain of religious groups.
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In a sense you could think of social science and the modern welfare state as a project that functionally usurped these elements of social function from religious incumbents.
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What is worth considering is how the social science/blue state industrial complex differs from clerical organizations in basic organization and information processing. My hunch is that religions were relatively indexical in execution whereas the new system Sees Like a State
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Replying to @eigenrobot
So this is probably longer than a tweet can do justice for but suffice it to say that different religions have different org charts (by degrees), some rely quite a bit on what SFBA might call branding or memes while others have more defined hierarchy, + lots of local soft power.
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eigenrobot Retweeted antirobust
thinking about this a lot lately :)https://twitter.com/antirobust/status/1275246731383332865?s=19 …
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