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What are some good alternatives to express the same concept?

• agalunar 2y ago
  “Imitation without understanding”, “imitating but misconstruing”, “mindless imitation”, “superficial emulation”, &c. I think “cargo culting” in the popular sense means little more than that (whereas actual cargo culting is much more complex, as the featured article describes).
• mglvsky 2y ago
  Security theater
• gota 2y ago
  Simulacra - "Something that replaces reality with its representation" [0] https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmodernism/terms/simulacrum.html https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmoder...
• andsoitis 2y ago
  important to understand substance over form.
• rvz 2y ago
  Cargo cult.
• mock-possum 2y ago
  Might I propose ‘Skinner-Boxing’ - something happened but you’re not sure why, so you guess it’s because of something you did, and you decide to ritualistically repeat what you did in the hopes that thing that happened before happens again. It’s a misunderstanding of cause and effect - so when you repeat the cause, looking to repeat the effect, you’re puzzled that it doesn’t work this time.
• Clubber 2y ago
  "Aping," is a good one, but I'm sure someone will take offense to that as well eventually.