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A key insight or dreconceptualization
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You see a Key Concept, one of the most important principles according to which the world in general and the world of people operate.

These concepts are referenced throughout the Patterns series, including the Patterns for Victory series and Us or Them!. A concise summary and two or three key examples are provided at the beginning of each volume. See other key reconceptualizations.

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Costly signalling

It's about acts of supreme sacrifice by "fanatics," which ensure that "ordinary" members of a community receive confirmation of the righteousness of their own cause, including in their fight against a community conflicting over the same resources. Costly signaling, especially religious signaling, is therefore an instrument for building social cohesion.

We must keep in mind the content of the truly inspiring work "Cooperation and Commune Longevity...". One of its main, well-documented visions is an unusual approach to so-called "costly signaling." The more a given community produces fanatics, zealots, and people psychologically prepared to go to war in defense of their faith or their nation, the greater cohesion the entire community will be able to achieve, and at the same time, to coax cooperation from its members through requests and threats. And here – in developing the capacity to survive at the level of entire civilizations and geopolitical centers – we, the Christian world and the "decadent West" – are utterly defeated by the effects of the work of Islamists.

More on this topic: Richard Sosis, Eric Bressler, "Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion," "Cross-Cultural Research," 2003, Volume 37, Issue 2.

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