Really, really, really bad take. "Evils are incomprehensible" is cheap point-scoring. "Evils are incomprehensible, and attempting to comprehend them is itself evil" is cheap point-scoring with a body count over time.https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1138590931509075969 …
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I think you can't really understand collective hallucinations from a POV with [rational] agenda. That's why art is so successful at this! (I for one "got" Nazism when I watched The White Ribbon and where Christianity was coming from from Spiro's Captivity.... Etc. That works.)
Internal coherence doesn't mean good assumptions or clear perception emerging from a culture that takes bad ones for granted! Indeed, understanding how reasoning proceeds from there is critical to getting a handle on this
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Absolutely. Art and conversation are the only entries I've found which allow for "respectful irrationality" so that these emergent parallel worlds and mindsets can be explored w/o condescension/infantilisation/vilification - What I see tho is that *how* these collective 2/1
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hallucinations turn out is pretty random (good, bad, in the middle) --- it's the underlying structure, which is always similar, that we have to understand. And that can't be from a normative top-down way imho.
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