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An ingroup only coheres properly once all members totally misunderstand why outgroupers dislike them, and form a consensus around a wildly wrong statement of the form “they hate us for our X”. Such a statement is the unacknowledged Axiom 0 of every reality distortion field
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Apparently axiom 0 is being disliked as a group. The rejecting group creates the rejected group. Then the rejected group starts rationalizing it.
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This delightfully explains why furries have failed to totally cohere: we know everyone hates us but we all disagree on why and therefore we can’t agree on what to do about it. It’s comical
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Very true in my experience The shared sacred lie is the ticket price for entry to the inner sanctum
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1. A significant part of why I haven’t been able to be a part of any real ingroup: I think most groups usually have some truth at the heart of it, and also tend to deny some other truth(s). The former makes me seek out deplorable folk, the latter tends to get me excommunicated
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Jehovahs Witnesses (my childhood religion) do this extremely well. “They hate us because we preach the truth.” Apparently a bible verse has Jesus saying “you are my chosen ones and they will hate you for it”. The more people find JWs preposterous the more it confirms their faith.
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