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Shaming and honoring are very important. We don’t have as much of an understanding of that. There are scholars who understand that, but that’s not been part of our accepted way of thinking about collective action.

RJN wrote:http://www.alternet.org/economy/145889/ ... age=entire

Shaming and honoring are very important. We don’t have as much of an understanding of that. There are scholars who understand that, but that’s not been part of our accepted way of thinking about collective action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Great wrote:
<<After joining the Stonecutters, which is made up of many of the male characters on the show, Homer takes great pleasure in the Society's secret privileges, such as an underground byway past Springfield's traffic jams, the Society's drinking bouts and free roller-skates. Unfortunately, during a celebratory rib dinner with his fellow Stonecutters, he unwittingly uses the society’s Hallowed Sacred Parchment as a napkin, tissue and Q-tip, destroying it. He is stripped of his Stonecutter robes and as part of his punishment is forced to walk home naked dragging the "stone of shame". Before he leaves, however, it is discovered that Homer has a birthmark in the shape of the Stonecutter emblem, identifying him as "The Chosen One" who, it was foretold, would lead the Stonecutters to greatness. He is then unshackled from the "stone of shame" and shackled to an even larger "STONE OF TRIUMPH".>>