A robust red pill will offer a pluralistic live-and-let-live *style* of doing things and trust it to be competitive. A fragile cult red pill that sucks you into absolutism will seek to stamp out alternative styles with extreme prejudice to make itself a monoculture.
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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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