Specialized words for some sort of domain-specific or ideology-specific enlightenment are usually a marker: woke, red pill (in MRA sense), Straussian, “IDW”, monetarist, “classical”. A reliable confirmation test is extreme ritual purity in praxis, offered as the one true way.
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But unlike the psychotic cult-of-one types, you ARE able to meaningfully connect with, and for a while, grow along with, this kind of mutually prime person. For a while you’ll benefit from triangulating shared encounters with new experiences.
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And each such encounter will take you further away from universal-absolutist cognitive monopolies. You’ll just be on a path of diverging, increasingly infrequent mind-expanding 1:1 encounters with Other Ways of Theorizing life, the universe, and everything. That’s lived pluralism
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Pro-tip: The trick to safe dealings with cults is to treat them as aggregates. Talk to the anthill, not to the ants. If you’re talking to ants, you’re lost inside. Even the queen is just one ant. Or be a normcore neutrino: zip through without either disturbing or being captured.
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Cult theories can be usefully mutually prime to you, but only if you deal with them as a whole. On the inside, they likely run on a different “artificial number theory”, where prime numbers are omitted. They are constructed as irreducible-difference intolerance fields.
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