Well, I'd submit that when good people organize, they can be very effective at getting good things done. And when nutballs organize they can be very effective at ruining things and spreading chaos and misery.

Most large organizations of any kind contain both sorts in a sort of spectrum. I suspect that the vast majority of folks are good, and are keeping their nutballs side under wraps.

It is possible that imposing unwieldy models of the universe which don't make any sense lead to making a person feel isolated from reality, desperate, irresponsible, and prone to falling into their suppressed insanities -- of which we all have some -- to a dramatic degree. One example is the silly model of prayer as though it were a two-way communication session, which some people hold, looking for answers within 24 hours as you would when calling a hardware store or insurance company. Obviously those who understand the subject don't see prayer or God that way, but how many degrees of refinement do they have to go through to reach that understanding from the simplistic and misleading models offered to the young by the not too bright?

Bad models lead to bad thinking, even when their platitudes are good. Daylia, it seems, was wise enough to extract the wise platitudes or moral lessons without getting too het up by the strangeness of bad modeling, including authoritarian strictures, the divine rights of privileged classes and certain other kinks.

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