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		nonrandomstring on Jan 12, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The origin of the cargo cult metaphor > Taking a humble approach, we may be in the same position when it comes to things we, from the height of our reason, do not understand as well. Isn't that the main point of that cargo-cult metaphor as used today - a restatement of Arthur C Clarke's technology and magic remark and how we've let our own magic exceed our reason... that we're no longer at the "height" of reason at all?

surgical_fire on Jan 13, 2025 [–]

I think so, yes. I used the "height of our reason" phrase a bit ironically.

There is quite a lot of things any person is unable to understand about our own word, and you can see how they handle those.

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