As a simplified contrast, Horus is ‘competence’ and Ra is ‘legitimacy.’ Ra-worship is preferring entities based on legitimacy rather than competence, combined with a feeling that one can’t select on competence instead. There’s also a flavor that inherently prefers mechanized bureaucratic systems; consider someone who prefers placing a pizza order online to calling up the local pizza place because it goes through “the system,” and likes that this hides away the human elements.
One can imagine a world in which lending organizations allocate money brilliantly and locals allocate it poorly; one can also imagine a world in which lending organizations, due to systematic bias, are worse than random at allocating money whereas locals are better than random. If one doesn’t have the confidence to ignore the shiny institutional power of the lending organization, one might still give money to the lending organization in the second world.
As a simplified contrast, Horus is ‘competence’ and Ra is ‘legitimacy.’ Ra-worship is preferring entities based on legitimacy rather than competence, combined with a feeling that one can’t select on competence instead. There’s also a flavor that inherently prefers mechanized bureaucratic systems; consider someone who prefers placing a pizza order online to calling up the local pizza place because it goes through “the system,” and likes that this hides away the human elements.
One can imagine a world in which lending organizations allocate money brilliantly and locals allocate it poorly; one can also imagine a world in which lending organizations, due to systematic bias, are worse than random at allocating money whereas locals are better than random. If one doesn’t have the confidence to ignore the shiny institutional power of the lending organization, one might still give money to the lending organization in the second world.