There’s a ratchet effect, though.
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Abolitionists? Or is that sermonizing plus civil war. But literal sermons were key part of antislavery / civil rights movements.
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Maybe got more than a few hundred, but sure feels like it only lasted one generation
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A sermon doesn't move the mean (much); a sermon makes a group more legible to itself.
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But, hell, I just got this from Kevin Simler, and you've probably already read it. https://meltingasphalt.com/here-be-sermons/ …
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Reducing variation around the mean seems more like sermonizing’s function. It makes it easier to do nothing than to do the wrong thing.
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I mean, like, the Sermon on the Mount is called that for a reason whether Christianity in aggregate has moved the actual mean or just the aspirational one is relevant here
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“Actual mean” vs “aspirational mean” is equivalent to “group velocity” vs “phase velocity”. Only one of them allows faster than light travel.
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Savonarola in Florence booted out the Medicis and paved the way for Machiavelli’s brief political career. But the Medicis returned a few years later
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