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Kahlil Corazo's avatar

You might be interested in the DARPA doc "A Memetics Compendium" which is like an operations manual for dealing with egregores https://twitter.com/kcorazo/status/1682288155037425665

Christianity was the original atheism. The old gods were egregores that kept the peace through deceit and Christ killed all of them https://www.explorations.ph/i/138274602/normie-psychopath-autist

Physicalist science brought this a notch higher with its desire for "intellectual cleanliness at any price" (Nietzsche via Girard) https://twitter.com/kcorazo/status/1726810053330808858

My interest right now is how power players across history have collaborated with egregores (especially 20th century nationalism) to reach the heights of power, and how people with a Christian or scientific mindset ("epistemology of truth") tend to be blind to the actual game of power players (who have an "epistemology of power").

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R.W. Richey's avatar

This description largely matches my read of things. In particular how Christianity was killed by it's offspring (which reminds me both of Charles Taylor's "A Secular Age" and Zeus...)

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