Thanks, this post (plus the previous one) also helped clarify some gears for me about how institutions work and why they seem to suffer particular pathologies.
I kind of like the term ‘infected’ here, it is nicely compatible with the term ‘werewolf’ when appropriate (you can be infected with lycanthropy), but I think might work a bit more robustly in more types of conversations.
Yes, I think “infected” is a lot closer. There’s a closely related term of ingroup jargon I’m holding onto and not sharing publicly that’s closely related, because I very much don’t want to see that particular word I’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools (or at least I want to until I can give it a really good try at explaining clearly), but overall “infected by lycanthropy” and “zombie plague” seem like better paradigms than calling whole persons werewolves.
Thanks, this post (plus the previous one) also helped clarify some gears for me about how institutions work and why they seem to suffer particular pathologies.
I kind of like the term ‘infected’ here, it is nicely compatible with the term ‘werewolf’ when appropriate (you can be infected with lycanthropy), but I think might work a bit more robustly in more types of conversations.
Yes, I think “infected” is a lot closer. There’s a closely related term of ingroup jargon I’m holding onto and not sharing publicly that’s closely related, because I very much don’t want to see that particular word I’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools (or at least I want to until I can give it a really good try at explaining clearly), but overall “infected by lycanthropy” and “zombie plague” seem like better paradigms than calling whole persons werewolves.