Taking the analogy further to a community of tiger riding monkeys...The monkey that waves the steak on a stick in front of some other monkey’s tiger probably has a future in marketing.
The monkeys who decide to pen their tigers may have a problem, the tigers are still present, may be unhappy about their confinement, and after a time, the monkeys may not watch them as closely as they should...
As a case in point, I give you the prevalence of polyamory in the rationalist community. Historically, polygyny has been a feature of insular communities that wanted to become more insular. Is polyamory serving its purpose as a strong social barrier to entry for the high table of the rationalist community, or is it really just pure rationality at work?
I don’t see how it can be very useful as a “strong social barrier to entry”. It’s not as if you have to be poly to be accepted as a rationalist, is it?
Taking the analogy further to a community of tiger riding monkeys...The monkey that waves the steak on a stick in front of some other monkey’s tiger probably has a future in marketing.
The monkeys who decide to pen their tigers may have a problem, the tigers are still present, may be unhappy about their confinement, and after a time, the monkeys may not watch them as closely as they should...
As a case in point, I give you the prevalence of polyamory in the rationalist community. Historically, polygyny has been a feature of insular communities that wanted to become more insular. Is polyamory serving its purpose as a strong social barrier to entry for the high table of the rationalist community, or is it really just pure rationality at work?
I don’t see how it can be very useful as a “strong social barrier to entry”. It’s not as if you have to be poly to be accepted as a rationalist, is it?