Sentences with phrase «for cargo cult»

That was the original premise for cargo cult, in that primitive people would do weird stuff with found objects.

Their fervour for cargo cult sciences may simply be mercenary, and a function of the massive government funding going into things like global warming studies.

Not exact matches

This is cargo cult engineering, where things are included not for any rational purpose, but in order to imitate the rituals of Bitcoin.

Borrowing models for fetishization from contemporary cargo cults or the animism of the tech world, Simon Dybbroe Møller deals with things that are too late; things that fulfill desires that have already been thoroughly discussed and articulated, but have been missing a body.

I've been trying to figure out a proper term for Briffa's explanation — would you agree that it's a cargo cult explanation of «divergence»?

This is cargo cult engineering, where things are included not for any rational purpose, but in order to imitate the rituals of Bitcoin.