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The Negation of the Real | James Lindsay

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The Relevance of the Concept of a Simulakarum

The cult or guru process is a parasitic operation almost always. It latches onto something real, replaces true authority with false authority. How that works as a parasite is a theme of the second talk and its actual operations is the theme of my third talk I'll give a couple days. All religious metaphors immediately apply correctly. Mike tempted you with Wokel's strawberries. That's kind of the name of this metaphor...I encourage you to listen to him when he speaks about that tomorrow.

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