Social scale does not rise to the scale of problems that require solving, it collapses to the scale of believable reasons life is worth living
Ozymandias types fundamentally don’t get this, they think social scale is a dependent variable in their personal ambition-equation
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If pyramids were meaningful, pharaohs wouldn’t need slave drivers with whips
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Individuals can “inspire” people with charismatic visions for a while, but it’s only sustainable while there’s money to pay them to believe
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By every account the pyramids were built by well fed volunteers.
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Fine, pyramid-like things built with a degree of coercion
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It's why organized religions were the pioneers of "foot in the door" psychological priming. Get people in for an annual religious service, and you can build them up one day where they both give you their money and build your cathedrals for you!



