[BRIEF NOTE] Devil's in the Details?
Aug. 20th, 2005 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldBack on the 11th, I noted that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mollpeartree had made some interesting observations about the correlation between geekdom and "strict religious observance." princeofcairo objected, and on reflection I added the modifier "very" to that quote. I've no citations at hand, I fear, but I recall that a disproportionate share of conservative Christians in the United States have been educated in the sciences. I'll ask elsewhere for cites. In the meantime, I felt it incumbent to me that this, the construction of strict rules-bound systems actively policed by people devoted to the rules, is also present on the Left. One of the few interesting bits of John Barnes' otherwise Death Porn-obsessed 1995 novel Mother of Storms was the destruction of a self-contained progressive community in the United States of the 2020s, composed of members careful to respect the rules and reluctant to deal with outsiders.
mollpeartree had made some interesting observations about the correlation between geekdom and "strict religious observance." princeofcairo objected, and on reflection I added the modifier "very" to that quote. I've no citations at hand, I fear, but I recall that a disproportionate share of conservative Christians in the United States have been educated in the sciences. I'll ask elsewhere for cites. In the meantime, I felt it incumbent to me that this, the construction of strict rules-bound systems actively policed by people devoted to the rules, is also present on the Left. One of the few interesting bits of John Barnes' otherwise Death Porn-obsessed 1995 novel Mother of Storms was the destruction of a self-contained progressive community in the United States of the 2020s, composed of members careful to respect the rules and reluctant to deal with outsiders.
