A community can persist on fidelity to an event without any beliefs

Evidence

But the Remnant have no cockamamie beliefs. In fact they seem to have no positive beliefs at all; their purpose is simply to retain a fidelity to the senseless event of the Departure. In their joyless white, they are mute spectres forever insisting that the Departure must not be forgotten. Their point is not moral — the departed should be remembered — but philosophical: reality has fundamentally altered, and this must be faced, not denied. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 732

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illuminates fidelity-to-the-event (a Badiouian concept Fisher implied in ch28) stripped of positive doctrine — an ethic of sheer attestation.
• XREF: Evokes Badiou’s fidelity to an event named earlier in the book, and the Guilty Remnant as a reverse image of the Church. — connects to: People can sincerely promote useful falsehoods without conscious base motives; Conversion rituals can be exploited to gain membership without sincere belief; Loyalty to wrongdoers can persist without condoning their actions — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 682

Broader Connections

• Conversion rituals can be exploited to gain membership without sincere belief #corroborates (0.80)
• Loyalty to wrongdoers can persist without condoning their actions #corroborates (0.78) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 682
• People can sincerely promote useful falsehoods without conscious base motives #expands (0.72)