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groups have extraordinary capacity for coordination with entirely implicit norms, but as soon as you start adding explicit structure, there’s a mental bug that will activate in some people where they suddenly find ambiguity 100% intolerable and demand everything be 100% defined
@exgenesis this maybe an example where you have two polarised archetypes that are always latent in the social field, so when you bring any group together, someone will wind up speaking on behalf of one pole, and someone else will find themselves speaking on behalf of the other
@exgenesis I think thats the mechanism for spreading a lot of culture war stuff too. you dont have to be the most fanatical culture warrior, just the person in the room who happens to care a bit more than everyone else about the issue
@mr_samosaman good question! I’m not sure. maybe you kinda have to go thru a loop of making new explicit norms and then people get a feel for what stuff culture is made of and then you can let the implicit take over again
@RichDecibels interesting thing might be that enforcement of both explicit and implicit norms is key, but effective enforcement of explicit norms needs to happen from authority figures, while effect enforcement of implicit norms happen from everyone
@RichDecibels somewhat related: counterwill https://t.co/c6QSQImC9j