Other than the cargo cults themselves, what are good examples

>>3371621
>Roman "Empire" was really centralized empire of modern (19-20 century) type.
>Holy Roman "Empire" was really centralized empire of modern type.
>Chinese "Empire" was really centralized empire of modern type.
>Japanese "Empire" was really centralized empire of modern type before 1860.

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>>3371621
Black market in Eastern Europe 1948-1989

>>3371621
The idea of the reverse cargo cult is pretty interesting. Essentially, as the idea goes, a nation builds their airport out of straw as in an ordinary cargo cult, but the leaders and people both know the straw airport is a lie. The leaders take it a step further, though, and say that the other, real, airport is also a lie and that the people who build the real airport are just being equally wasteful. It's an idea that pervaded the post-Stalinist and Kruschev Warsaw Pact countries.

>>3371621
Immolations. Like killing an animal in the hope it will improve the hunting...

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I wanna say, fake breast implants. So you have real big breasts on a woman, it pretty much signals fertility right. Then you have flat-chested women who get implants, which also signal fertility, and therefore men get turned on. But it's really fake breasts, so she's not really fertile, she's got silicone in her tits. Does that make sense? Kind of like how the cargo-cults built the physical form of an airplane, but it doesn't have the "guts" that really make an airplane work. They were just imitating the outer appearance of the airplane and runway.

>>3371739
Actually large breasts are a surer sign that she's already pregnant and you missed your chance

>>3371776
I don't buy that explanation because there's a big difference between the big tits on a young woman who hasn't given birth yet, and the sort of big tits a woman has after giving birth 4 times. The former are more firm and rounded while the latter are more droopy. I think implants tend to imitate the "firm" aesthetic more.

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>>3371621