@sarahdoingthing One infers that it's because it intersects usefully with the natural tendencies of Islamic scripture: it *reads* as holy...
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@sarahdoingthing ...both to the puritan insurgents and the compromising mainstream. cf. the Burroughs prose I linked.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev one of the deepest examples of this that I have seen is the cult of personality thing http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2011/03/simple-model-of-cults-of-personality.html …pic.twitter.com/Beva0EfNVe
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@St_Rev especially "This is true of all mechanisms that induce preference falsification, however: they prevent coordination."1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev so when does sacredness induce preference falsification? is that perhaps its actual main job? can it be harnessed/moderated?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev coordination *by method of preference falsification* is hard to conceptualize but wow lol2 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
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@St_Rev maybe it's not preference falsification so much as preference husbandry1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Seems like preference falsification allows kinds of cohesion that would otherwise be impossible.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing ie bad for people, bad for human goals, but seems really incredibly great for the egregore2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@St_Rev but it's so weird - coordinating along the antithesis of your axis of cooperation :/
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@sarahdoingthing well we're talking about malevolent Lovecraftian entities so we should expect sanity-shattering awfulness0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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