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In regards to my last tweet: When people are put in the âzooâ, there are moments of enthusiasm in which the âviewedâ are excited to display themselves. This isnât wrong, but it is imperative that they understand the consequences that can follow.
Often enough, the person on display will either just want to show off or potentially interest a person in experiencing the position of the displayed. The spiritual capitalist WILL take advantage of this. @thelettuceman gave a good example with Matt Slick.
We see this spiritual capitalism in the Atheist and Christian communities. The person who demonstrated their beliefs leave themselves open to twists and turns via wordplay into another ideology, becoming convinced through manipulation that this ideology is correct.
We see this happen everywhere time and time again, not just in the religious communities (see Far Right movements etc). The defense of the manipulator is âTheir beliefs werenât as strong as they thought thenâ, shrugging off their actions as just debate or discussion.
Of course they wonât acknowledge that people can be at different levels of articulation and rationale. This is a power gap that the proselytizer will most definitely use, through the power of language.
âTheir beliefs werenât as strong as they thought if they convertedâ is a misdirection, which places the blame on the victim of conversion. And of course, the âvalueâ spiritual capitalists assert is still left vague.
Mauna Kea is an example or spiritual capitalism. The telescope was argued by non-natives in Hawaii to bring the natives closer to their stargazing ancestors and thus would be inline with their worldview. It was also argued that they âmay keepâ their culture while âsharingâ the -
- mountain. Key words; may keep, share. These are words used to assert that these beliefs are commodities that can be distributed to outside cultures at a whim, by a colonizing force. Theyâre carefully chosen for a reason.
It puts the S.C. in the distributer position and takes the agency from those who own these beliefs and cultures.
