Why Conspiracy Theories?
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Maths tour rulers?
luka
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iPad is very creative when it comes to autocorrect
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The larger forces would be some ambivalent admixture of God and Satan, seeing as that dichotomy can be read as saying more about our internal language than it says about the external forces, no?
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I don't think I would necessarily disagree that the ruler needs to be a psychopath, based on how we define that term. I think, strictly speaking, "psychopath" denoting a soul/mind that deviates from normativity - it is almost a necessary quality for a would-be ruler. That is, unless every person is capable of ruling, in which case a given ruler wouldn't be an exception, and thus the "-pathic" wouldn't apply. As in, pathology.
luka
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I mean, what if there are all sorts of larger forces. And some are inimical to human needs and other are really sweet? Then you would need to exercise discrimination. angelology and demonology
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Perhaps, but very warily, because the more the angelic is enforced, the more promisingly robust the shadow/taboo becomes, no?
mixed_biscuits
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I think the conspiracy runs somewhat deeper when it comes to Simpsons characters...all the way up to the puppet-master, Groening.
luka
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Not sure. Dunno. We don't really know what we're doing. We're just experimenting, trying to establish rules of thumb etc.
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And the belief in larger forces could, also, be read as saying more about our internal language/epistemology than the external nature. The external could very well be operating independently of any overseeing agenda, but that doesn;t necessarily preclude us from effectively imposing such an agenda onto it.
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That is why I say "borderline theological" rather than just coming out and saying theological.
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It doesn't involve a belief in higher order forces so much as it involves a belief in the effectiveness of believing in higher-order forces.
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Effective to what end? That is where a pragmatics comes into play, a pragmatics that consists of a superposition of all possible ideologies, perhaps.
edit: a second order pragmatics.
edit: a second order pragmatics.
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I guess the closest thing to actual evidence is that patterns emerge on scales built upon the human psyche. That lines form, ideologically, and remain active/effective because people continue to treat them as real distinctions, reifying them (?).
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It seems like the order of beliefs/ideology, if we think of it as an order, would function as a supervisor/manager of the organization of matter. In what direction should the world (specifically its material resources) be developed?