Trickle-down shadows. Want to know the shadow of a certain memetic tribe? Look carefully at their chieftains psychological make-up. What shadow is trickling down?
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Want to memetic mediate? Talk with the shadow and not at the shadow. Show it some respect regardless of how incoherent it may seem to your worldview.
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Example? I think I understand what you mean by a trickle-down shadow but want to cross-check if you mean what I read...
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The shadow of the chieftain trickles down and gets adopted by its members. Or maybe the members already have that shadow quality and it gets amplified when they become adherents to the chieftain. I discussed a little bit of this with Erik Davis @ 19:25. youtu.be/nLHluezgFf8
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Ah slightly different. I’d parse trickle-down shadow as: a shadow that a thought leader sublimates with delicate assertions and pointed silences, followers project with crude force. Eg:
X: “There are gender differences”
Followers of X: “Women are inferior and men should rule”
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Cool. If we anthropomorphize the shadow as a person it's like they are engaging in a motte and bailey. The adherents invoke the bailey and the chieftain goes for the motte. The shadow is the same but the degree of premise guarding sophistication is different.
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Simplest allegory I can think of: the chieftain is Jekyll, the followers are Hyde.


