Aretae brings the perceptive, along with the smart:
Claim: Most "beliefs" are mostly about fitting in, monkeybrains, taboo, status/envy, hatred of the "other" group (Atheists, Communists, Environmentalists, Republicans), and related factors that have NOTHING to do with the truth of the position. Until you believe a position that (if you shared it) would destroy your social status among most observers, you are locked into the inability to think critically about crazy stupid stuff that is dogma (blank-slate). However, once you accept one batshit crazy position (agorism, polyamory, unschooling, formalism, transhumanism, communism, ...), a whole pile of options for analysis open up, and you are now able to think about stuff that was locked away in the status drawer.Am I the only one who would pay cash money to sit in on an around-beers-discussion between him and Tam? Clearly, I like to hang with 5 sigma outliers ...
And I'm guessing that monkey brains and bacon would totally kick ass on m'pone worms. Those I ate for national honor, and only because I hadn't figured out (yet) that it was batshit crazy ...
But "monkey brains" is the meme du jour. Go forth, and meme.
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And, of course, the only comment I can offer is BBBBRRRAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNSSSSS!!!
If you eat monkey brains, do you become a monkey zombie?
Borepatch,
As always, you're too kind. But it seems as if Tam's only 200 miles south of here.
Aretae, the have regular blogger get togethers. RobertaX organizes them every month or so.
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