Very pleasing to watch you work through the relevant theory much faster than I did (albeit also with more directly relevant reading materials).
Bounded cognition is relevant here. Negotiating coalitional status competes for cognitive resources with participating in shared models of external reality, so if you enforce norms well enough, it’s cheaper for people to mostly just be normative.
The English Civil War is a historical example of a pronormative revolution against an antinormative regime; I wrote about it in Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency (also linked in a footnote to the post, but I don’t expect anyone followed all the links). I think it’s an important case study; the major benefit of Calvinism seems to be having any sort of idea of the existence of a conflict between pronormative and antinormative mindsets, while endorsing the normative side.
The major disadvantage otherwise pronormative cognition has is naïvete to the existence of antinormativity, sometimes to the point of the sort of unseeing I complained about in the Lacanian section of Compradorization. Civil Law and Political Drama is my best attempt to lay out single framework that can describe both pronormative and antinormative cognition.
Very pleasing to watch you work through the relevant theory much faster than I did (albeit also with more directly relevant reading materials).
Bounded cognition is relevant here. Negotiating coalitional status competes for cognitive resources with participating in shared models of external reality, so if you enforce norms well enough, it’s cheaper for people to mostly just be normative.
The English Civil War is a historical example of a pronormative revolution against an antinormative regime; I wrote about it in Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency (also linked in a footnote to the post, but I don’t expect anyone followed all the links). I think it’s an important case study; the major benefit of Calvinism seems to be having any sort of idea of the existence of a conflict between pronormative and antinormative mindsets, while endorsing the normative side.
The major disadvantage otherwise pronormative cognition has is naïvete to the existence of antinormativity, sometimes to the point of the sort of unseeing I complained about in the Lacanian section of Compradorization. Civil Law and Political Drama is my best attempt to lay out single framework that can describe both pronormative and antinormative cognition.