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by ambler0 4222 days ago
Thanks for bringing this up for the people who aren't familiar with the history of the term. In my opinion, "cargo cult" is overused and overly specific. We have a perfectly good word for these kinds of behaviors, i.e. "superstition"
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Yeah, superstition works most of the time. Though the things that cargo-culters do usually make sense given the right context. Many superstitions (black cats, ladders, lucky socks, and unlucky numbers) have no rationality in any situation.