re: #792 publicityStunted

Interesting you bring this up, because I thought of the very same thing during the “getting rid of religion would solve so many problems” debates - if humans are capable of elevating people who play with balls to godlike status, well…that pretty much means you could get rid of religion tomorrow and we’d easily find something else to use for the purpose of shaming, attacking, and “othering” those who think differently.

When I was in high school the right pair of jeans and the right labels were like a religion with some groups. Didn’t have them? Forget about it. Then there was the group where NOT EVER wearing the right jeans or labels was like a religion. There were even icons to go along with it. The ‘right label’ people had the inside of their lockers plastered with Guess ads and the ‘no label’ people would have those same ads with jiffy marker x’s through them or mustaches.