interesting, on the dynamics among elite subcultures

Only your reputation within the priesthood matters.

why is it that so many prominent econ bloggers are at GMU but it’s ranked 73rd? because that doesn’t count for status within the econ priesthood

doctor priesthood might be helpful! lots of ways to unscrupulously mine status or money from the public because you know more, but then the priesthood will look down on you for it and you’ll get a worse job or be excommunicated or whatever

it’s sometimes useful to have a priesthood, where ideas can develop in a higher signal-to-noise environment. and the gatekeeping is very important for that

priesthoods are susceptible to memes which are adjacent to their area of expertise, let them discount public opinion more, or are additional rituals to signal purity