@sarahdoingthing ...on images of Muhammad. But insurgent puritan movements keep recreating that taboo over and over in Islam's history.
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@sarahdoingthing One infers that it's because it intersects usefully with the natural tendencies of Islamic scripture: it *reads* as holy...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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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@sarahdoingthing not really familiar with the idea of preference falsification so will have to think about it1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev afaik it's not a common term but@marquezxavier (author) might know more - I'm thinking about it too1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev the term comes from Timur Kuran. See e.g. his book Private Truths, Public Lies http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674707580 …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@marquezxavier that looks great thanks
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