I was reading this post from Vox:
All I did was politely try to John Birch conservatism’s most popular writer out of conservatism! And then they were mean to me! They sent me pictures!
The horra, the horra…..
What all this whining indicates is that the ruthless, relentless meming of the Alt-Right is effective. When they cry racist, send them King Kong and field hand memes. When they cry anti-Semitism, send them swastika and oven memes. The reason they are attempting to ban memes from social media is because it is powerfully effective rhetoric. It is rhetoric that resonates and persuades.
Notice how the raucousness of the mob is a visceral injection of out-grouping stimulus, straight into the amygdala of the rabbit. Even the National Review flavor of rabbit quivers in fear and begins to dread opening their twitter feed.
As I read this, I realized a meme is an amygdala hijack, distilled to its purest form, in a simple image or idea. A simple idea, encased in a delivery vehicle that injects the concept in pure, concentrated form, directly into the amygdala of the rabbit.
As an example of what Vox is saying, when their amygdala is hyper-triggered by a false image of racism, send them offensive, overtly racist material. What does that do? It acclimates their amygdala to real racism, making false racism less likely to trigger them. It triggers them unpleasantly after an erroneous outburst, training them not to do that. I’m sure Milo’s twitter-banning aside, Leslie Jones is careful not to aggravate the hordes now. As Vox shows in his post, French is careful now too.
In the interim, you get to enjoy the leftist freakshow, as their amygdala volcano erupts. But I think for maximal effect, you should view this as training, and brain modification, strengthening the weak – with a stress they wish they could so gleefully try to destroy you with.
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These memes are so powerful that seeing them fairly infrequently makes receivers think 10,000 people agree with them.
My favorite rhetorical devices are, “If you live in a majority White neighborhood or nation, then you’re a White Supremacist.”
“Most men are too weak to create one great family. Trump created three.”
A bit off topic but you might like this video on why Marxism never works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8f8OW7eUDw
So being red pilled is the result of many amygdala hijacks. Essentially a transition period from the person’s status quo to the new red pilled state, with the movement facilitated by amygdala hijacks such as from memes, conversations, etc. So we’re witnessing / experiencing a fast convergence to the red pill state due to the Internet and its relevant services – and then what? No more hijacking and the stabilization of culture, country the west? Some kind of turmoil in between as people rage quit rather than conform to the new state? How long would this new state remain in place before it transitions again? Ramblings …
I think it is more than memes online. People have less today. Things cost more, people make less relatively, and they have less pleasure because they have to work more. There is stress, as the lower castes begin getting violent and aggressive. The smart see society is collapsing, and that adds to it.
The issue is society is splitting, between those who seek out understanding to diminish the hijacks produced by reality, and those who try to avoid the hijacks entirely through bullying, denial, and a general detachment from reality.
The only way to unify the people is for resources to contract to the point that everyone has to face reality, and there is nowhere to run.
I interpret that as when there is an issue with resource availability, it prepares people to be more receptive to interactions that contain a message which offers an answer or direction that would help alleviate the problem. Memes, being readily available, would fulfill this role as if on steroids. I’m not saying they are magic, /cough, just saying they have a great influence right now.
As for a further contraction of resources, that’s an interesting puzzle. Resources from the middle to upper castes are gathered from authority figures and delivered to the lower castes. What breaks that cycle?