Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Disciplinarian populist rituals are popular because of the cognitive setup
>of human mind. People need to cognitively establish order and meaning in the
>world to be able to function.
This is abstractly true but stupidly trivial. ("Popular" is a particularly empty term.)
"Disciplinarian populist rituals" (whatever in the hell they are) are metely one of an indefinitely large number of manifestations of what you call the "cognitive setup of the human mind" -- itself a pretty empty phrase. As a matter of fact no organism is going to survive that does not (in some sense) constantly struggle to establish order and connection (a better term than "meaning") in its world. And "the mind" doesn't so struggle, the entire organism does, or for social animals such as homo sapiens the entire group does collectively.
Carrol