High priest says it is raining, High priest silent

Reading Plough, Sword and Book by Ernest Gellner, I enjoyed the ‘matrix’ of conflict and agreement between rationality or the observed world and maintaining the social norm in ‘pre-rational’ societies – societies of the plough in the framework of the book. This situation is of course very far from being confined to those societies and Continue reading "High priest says it is raining, High priest…