The consecration of heresy: Attempt at socio-analysis of a microcosm
Abstract
We've all felt a certain joy at finding a familiar face in a faceless crowd; or several familiar faces in the midst of an unfamiliar group.
There are many occasions when this comfort can come to us. In college, we discover someone who went to the same high school; or when, anywhere, we find people with the same musical, artistic, intellectual, political repertoire. How happy it is when a poem begins and an individual among those present continues it – giving proof of a spiritual community, which we generally take as superior. Common sporting predilections, for example: how to contain that surprise that emerges in a “you too!”, the same thing observed when our parents have identical professions, or belonged to the same political movement. Hobbies, pleasures, difficulties: once discovered in common, they can become powerful forces of attraction. All the stronger, by the way, if the element in question, let's say any taste, is taken as a rarity, which makes us pay attention to the colors of our idiosyncrasy. We are all, for different purposes, engulfed in this phenomenon. Do we realize, beyond the magic of 'coincidence', the social properties that are at stake in these 'elective affinities'?
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