How do you establish a belief system?

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Imagine your job is to establish a belief system, like a religion, or a loyalty. How would you do it at a large scale, between divergent and conflicting people? Like can cats and dogs be made best friends forever, and at what cost? Examples of such established religions and belief systems are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, communism, nationalism. They all sell well and remain popular. In your opinion, what are the tricks, to engineer such things? Discuss.
 
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Imagine your job is to establish a belief system, like a religion, or a loyalty. How would you do it at a large scale, between divergent and conflicting people? Like can cats and dogs be made best friends forever, and at what cost? Examples of such established religions and belief systems are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, communism, nationalism. They all sell well and remain popular. In your opinion, what are the tricks, to engineer such things? Discuss.
Dead easy! I saw it 'in action' when I worked for NAPA. This is a true story.

1). You call a meeting of all the employees.
2). At the meeting you introduce a competition ... either within the job site or your place of work against another location of the same company. The competition is "Who moves the most products or who ships out more goods within a week". The winner gets take-away lunch at KFC.
3). During the meeting you have 'spotters' who will look at the faces of the employees to see who's showing enthusiasm and who is 'making faces'.
4). At the end of the announcement you say, "What do you think?! Are we going to kick ass and win?!" Now the spotters are really scanning the group to see who's cheering, whooping & hollarin' ....... and who ain't.
5). Depending upon who was showing enthusiasm (at the meeting) and who increases his/he performance (during the week of competition), you find reasons to sack certain people.

That takes care of non-believers in this new "system" you are talking about, leaving only believers.

6). Now that you've set a new standard (the one established with the high rate of performance during competition) you now expect to maintain that standard, else workers can expect to be fired.

If you are running a nation, such as the United Snakes, you use this very same trick on a national level.
 
Imagine your job is to establish a belief system, like a religion, or a loyalty. How would you do it at a large scale, between divergent and conflicting people? Like can cats and dogs be made best friends forever, and at what cost? Examples of such established religions and belief systems are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, communism, nationalism. They all sell well and remain popular. In your opinion, what are the tricks, to engineer such things? Discuss.

Well in the case of Confucianism, you use your riches to travel around China and teach the poor to have high ideals of ethics and worship their ancestors.

In the case of Buddhism, you use your riches to travel around Asia and give poor peasants hope where there is no hope and you invent a condition of euphoria called Nirvana.

In the case of Hinduism you invent a pantheon of deities and you teach young girls to dance erotically to populate (or overpopulate) your country.

In the case of Judaism you use your military experience to free your own people from slavery and then you lead them across the deserts for 40 years until they have all died except for two (named Joshua and Caleb) and then you brainwash the youth and train them to fight like specially picked soldiers and you take over someone else's lands.

In the case of Christianity you use your wealth to travel around a country of your choosing and give poor peasants hope where there is no hope, and you invent a condition of euphoria called Heaven.

In the case of Islam you claim to have seen visions while in a cave and you give marauders hope to inspire them to loot and pillage their way across Arabia and South Asia. Ultimately you need to invent a myth about 72 virgins for anyone that puts on a suicide vest and blows up nonbelievers.

Take your pick.
 

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