{"id":48726,"date":"2019-09-30T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T21:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48726"},"modified":"2019-09-30T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T21:19:53","slug":"so-sorry-your-karma-ran-over-your-dogma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48726","title":{"rendered":"So Sorry, Your Karma Ran Over Your Dogma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So Sorry, Your Karma Ran Over Your Dogma<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When dogmas lose their grip on believers, they collapse in spectacular fashion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karma covers a lot of ground, but it boils down to\u00a0consequences<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0consequences not just from your actions but from your convictions, schemes, obsessions, and yes, dogmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason why Karma runs over Dogma is that nobody clinging to a dogma sees themselves as dogmatic.<\/strong>\u00a0The true believer never sees their conviction as dogma, but as Revealed Truth, as self-evident, a view that is buttressed by all the other True Believers who surround the believer, reinforcing their conviction and soothing any nagging doubts by mocking, “debunking” or marginalizing heretics and critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our society, the mass media serves as a soothing echo-chamber of dogmas<\/strong>. It must be true, the news anchor said it on TV, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dogmas generate power and profits.<\/strong>\u00a0Trillions of dollars flow into a few pockets because people believe the dogmas that “you need a college diploma to succeed” and “America’s healthcare system is the best in the world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As evidence-based doubts seep in, those at the top of the “faith” who have the most to lose become increasingly fanatical and rabid<\/strong>, pushing an increasingly restrictive Orthodoxy on true believers and establishing an Inquisition to excommunicate or eliminate any heretical doubts or dissenting views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the increasingly detached-from-reality leadership senses their power waning, they double-down<\/strong>, exhorting the faithful to support the orthodoxy even as the orthodoxy reaches new heights of fanaticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As moderates drift away (or sneak away, loudly proclaiming their fealty to cover their escape), the leadership triples down<\/strong>, demanding unwavering loyalty of the remaining believers, who themselves triple-down by reassuring each other that they really are on the right track and the world is about to awaken to the correctness and righteousness of their cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with dogmas is that they are detached from the real-world consequences of dogmatic convictions.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Sorry, Your Karma Ran Over Your Dogma When dogmas lose their grip on believers, they collapse in spectacular fashion. Karma covers a lot of ground, but it boils down to\u00a0consequences:\u00a0consequences not just from your actions but from your convictions, schemes, obsessions, and yes, dogmas. The reason why Karma runs over Dogma is that nobody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26436,3484,27263,587,5078,669,1250],"class_list":["post-48726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-charles-hugh-mith","tag-dissent","tag-dogma","tag-of-two-minds","tag-orthodoxy","tag-reality","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48727,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726\/revisions\/48727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}