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wslh on Feb 1, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Zizians and the rationalist death cult

Rephrasing Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently sophisticated ideology is indistinguishable from madness".

flippyhead on Feb 1, 2025 [–]

I love this, but I'm not sure it's right. As for cults, people want to join them. It's more like any sufficiently sophisticated ideology is hard to distinguish from reality.

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