Look-alikes, figurations, bubble, interest groups
So is it really ‘Religion,’ or is this gossip just respective interests, that seem to ‘connect one’ insuch a ‘figuration?’ It is likely we are only subconsciously in a figuration, to many, but not to most or all anymore, as N Elias (1939/69) called ‘it,’ and E Goffman(1958)‘framed’ it, even if many are ‘in the know,’ including the victimized, who also contact each other in their own ‘up-stage’sub-cultures. These obsessions may even cause the victimized to take pride in ‘revenge’ on their pursuers, by giving a show of triumph or laughter, like teenage girls do to whistling wannabees. It often happens that such a group hangs around at a bus-stop or park-bench and laugh at passers-by, their‘out-group,’ and annoy them while being ‘untouchable,’ as the deriding ‘meanings’ are simultaneously denied, or rather, repressed, by all ‘parties.’ We may accept such assumptions (and insinuations) with K Popper (’51), as we will see shortly, but it is not, as he thought, a question of money and consumables, they are secondary, but rather of anxiety, and gratification,which we usually crave for (see 1932: Klein M, in Add. U). It is only through ‘historicism, we can get to know our childhood memories.’ Popperwrites (1951, pp. 330ff):