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EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault (x.com)

submitted 4 months ago by shinigami3@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago

For a moment there I wanted to say, “ok hold on for a minute: you think EA doesn’t create cult-like behaviour, only woke creates cult-like behaviour, but even if I grant all that about woke, surely EVERY charitable enterprise in modern history has tended towards cult behaviour?”

“So what do you think makes EA so goddamn special?”

Then I realised it’s the “incredible epistemic norms” of EA, i.e. the strongest drivers of cult-like behaviour going almost worldwide at the moment, which are the primary bulwark against EA behaving like a cult