Reading it now with proper context: It's Not "Privileged Academic Synthesizes Religions" It's: "People caught between violent categories find common ground that can't be racialized"

The gods surrounding Israel weren't just theological competitors. They were encoded negative recursion patterns—civilizational strategies that produced short-term power through long-term extraction. The biblical prohibition against them wasn't arbitrary divine jealousy but survival wisdom: align with reality's flow-through character (YHWH) or collapse under accumulation patterns (Baal/Molech/Mammon). The prophets were energy-flow analysts diagnosing system failure.

These three methods—Maximum Observational Diversity, Minimum Sustainable Projection, Scientific Method as Ritual—share common structure. They all attack conviction. They all slow down conclusion. They all privilege verification over belief.