Not every top-downs are inherently evil
E.g., 6-3b3f2 BTC Maximalists are monotheists and political network
9-2b3c1 Everett on Joseph Campbell’s ‘Monomyth’ (innate content) - A tendency to think in generic terms of people and races is undoubtedly the profoundest flaw in mythological thinking. You could shape any myths into a monomyth if you so wished.
9-2b3d Everett on George Berkeley’s critique of the very notions of abstraction and generalization - There is no mind of any kind, only bodies and the world in which they move
9-2b3g Edward Sapir - ‘The particular and the variable, rather than the universal or invariable, are where the intellectual gold is to be mined.’