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Of course, the group is a [[narrative]], as is its putative agenda: unless someone has published manifesto, no two individuals in the group will share identical set of beliefs, and it may be that no single individual holds exactly the set of core beliefs ascribed to the group. As with all narratives, it is a filter on the noise of diversity to render a meaningful signal. | Of course, the group is a [[narrative]], as is its putative agenda: unless someone has published manifesto, no two individuals in the group will share identical set of beliefs, and it may be that no single individual holds exactly the set of core beliefs ascribed to the group. As with all narratives, it is a filter on the noise of diversity to render a meaningful signal. | ||
The signal is often a phantom. In the same way that, in a group of 1000 people no individual will necessarily conform to the group’s average for height, weight, hand-size, inside seam, waist ''and'' chest measurement: the more dimensions you measure, the less likely that golden mean becomes.<ref>[[A. P. Herbert]]’s magical essay on the reasonable man in {{casenote|Fardell|Potts}} refers.</ref> | The signal is often a phantom. In the same way that, in a group of 1000 people no individual will necessarily conform to the group’s average for height, weight, hand-size, inside seam, waist ''and'' chest measurement: the more dimensions you measure, the less likely that golden mean becomes.<ref>Hence [[A. P. Herbert]]’s magical essay on the [[reasonable man]] in {{casenote|Fardell|Potts}} refers.</ref> | ||
Hence your struggle | Hence your struggle to mount an intellectual assault: your argument deconstructs the general average of a group to which no single member necessarily subscribes. Your intricate syllogisms resonate in the abstract; in the particular they snatch at thin air. | ||
Hence atheists and Christians | Hence, atheists and Christians shout themselves hoarse, rather enjoying the experience, making perfect sense to themselves and none at all to each other. | ||
The curious thing is this: that phantom median view — albeit unheld in the particular — acquires an emergent influence of its own, untethered to a mortal mind. It is ''imputed'', ''en masse''. We can’t say ''who'' exactly believes it, but we suppose, by the law of averages, a multitude do, and this is enough to condition how we behave. | |||
It is through this mechanic that we are vouchsafed [[middle management ouija]] where, privately, not a soul in personnel believes in, say, [[forced ranking]], but every one of them holds the untested impression that ''everyone else does'', it is somehow therefore canon law, nothing is to be done, and we should not waste our breath fighting against it. | |||
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*[[Middle management ouija board]] | *[[Middle management ouija board]] | ||
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