And it’s per-culture. In the next village over they have different magic words.
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I guess you could think of magical thinking as implementing your culture’s distinguishing memetic signature. Then natural selection gets to feel out the best values and behaviours by pitting cultures and magics against each other without anyone having to think up a ‘why’.
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how does this still have only 2 RTs, it's one of the best things you've ever written IMO
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What would be minority sect? Great thoughts and insights?
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I understand this to imply that the minority sects would be things like schizophrenia, the occult, Christian Science, "New Age" belief-creates-reality ideas etc. Just as the majority sects of Christianity, Islam etc have been fitted to secular and scientific consensus standards.
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And it only gets worse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybkiiAKMOY …
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good illustration of what normal-sect magical thinking looks like https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ILSseZp1c …
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This quote, like some of the best song lyrics, can be interpreted in multiple ways? My own take: Since change is constant, there is no "normal." What some of us regard as normal is either a) whatever we've experienced recently or b) our life periods absent of crisis.
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@vgr, it'd be great to learn what you, yourself, meant via this pithy quote? I've been searching for clues in places like this ...https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1276409278069268481 …
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