![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Challenging hierarchy and not respecting superiors for the sake of being superiors is something for me like breathing air, so when I naively arrived in a fandom group worshipping a fictional religious order, I caught myself thinking: why?
And then I realized why. Religious communities, cults, sects, they all have something in common: ORDER. They have exact rules, they have exact way of doing things, and most importantly then have people to tell you what to do. If you have an exact system to guide you whenever you are doubt or whenever you are forced to make important decisions then you can have a clear conscience that what you do is probably right. It is sanctified even. You don't have to think for yourself or think about the moral consequences of the actions when there is something bigger to tell you how wo think about it. Laws and rules, a concrete system is there to give you a safety. Maybe a little bit of ignorance too.
( Read more... )
And then I realized why. Religious communities, cults, sects, they all have something in common: ORDER. They have exact rules, they have exact way of doing things, and most importantly then have people to tell you what to do. If you have an exact system to guide you whenever you are doubt or whenever you are forced to make important decisions then you can have a clear conscience that what you do is probably right. It is sanctified even. You don't have to think for yourself or think about the moral consequences of the actions when there is something bigger to tell you how wo think about it. Laws and rules, a concrete system is there to give you a safety. Maybe a little bit of ignorance too.
( Read more... )
