The woman: I am not a feminist. The feminist: do you believe men should mistreat women? The woman: no. The feminist: do you believe men are higher status than women? The woman: no. The feminist: then you are a feminist.
Across the ages, a programmatic recruitment heuristic designed around possession of The Word and intended for encounters with the unevangelised has generated the same, deep cultural patterns in social relations. The template is reproduced in personal relations, particularly where an accumulation of cybernetic contacts converges with a mission to persuade. Any authority’s categorical recognition of an external quality tends to operate as a pretext for that authority’s commencement of its evangelising recruitment programme, which then goes through the gears of incorporation: first, the encounter; second, the recognition; third the negotiations; fourth, the extraction of acquiescence, then fealty, and finally enthusiasm. You are moral, and we are moral too; we recognise your morality; if you are to recognise our morality, you should join us; your recognition of our morality is acknowledgement of our reasons; the reasons in our morals are expressed in our organisation; we are organised for our morality and you are not; our organisation causes our morality to withstand the threat of immorality; we are organised so as to be moral in accord with our reasons; if you join us, then your morals will accord with our reasons which will then also be yours; if your reasons accord with our reasons, then our morals will also be yours; to join us is to recognise the reasons in our morality, and the morality in our reasons; now that you have encountered us, there is no reason not to be moral in accord with our reasons; if you do not join us, now that you have encountered our reasons, you will be effectively denying us; to deny us, is to refuse to recognise the morality in our reasons; to deny is us is to refuse to recognise the reasons in our morality; to refuse to recognise our morals, when we have shared our reasons, is immoral; if you refuse us, now that you have encountered us, you are in effect showing us that youare immoral. And we attack immorality.
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