Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 27, 2016I'm just going to quote-share this here 😶Quote TweetScott Adams@ScottAdamsSays·Feb 27, 2016Seems like Girl Scouts are emotionally manipulative beggars selling nutritional poison in cookie form. Because it builds character.1316
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Feb 27, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr I read about people trying to make something edible out of girl scout cookies, but cooking just released the stench of fake vanilla23
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Feb 27, 2016Replying to @sarahdoingthing@vgr also knew a woman who worked for the org, she found the cookie fundraising focus cult-like & creepy414
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 27, 2016Replying to @sarahdoingthing@sarahdoingthing but isn't it a nice community ritual, a marker of seasons like harvest festivals 😂12
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Feb 27, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr degraded ritual - actual girl scout camp is one of my models for ritual excellence23
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 27, 2016Replying to @sarahdoingthing@sarahdoingthing You could argue that original girl scout camp (and boy scout) were degraded hunter-gatherer life larping+aestheticization12
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Feb 27, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr all rituals (even of actual hunter-gatherers) are *changed* versions of earlier things - "degraded" means not supplying same nutrients21
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 27, 2016Replying to @sarahdoingthing@sarahdoingthing I feel this is a regime of particularly nasty no-true-scotsman infinite regress, along multiple retreat paths of definition1
Sister Sarah@sarahdoingthing·Feb 27, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr I thought it was pretty boring & functional - "is it fun? does it help people get along?"2
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @sarahdoingthing@sarahdoingthing ritual structures are powerful manf normalcy fields. ISIS putting on execution theaters in stadium is "just" like football9:16 PM · Feb 27, 20161 Like