Fomo Hoire
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Not a disagreement, just commentary. It would make sense, as fear is a pretty motivating factor. I think Jordan Peterson said - back when he was still doing fun things like explaining the psychology behind Pinocchio - that if you want someone to do something, giving them a carrot ($2000) is a good motivator, giving them a stick (Kangaroo Courts) is an even better motivator, and giving them both at the same time (Clown World) is the best of all.Whether it’s a conscious effort or not, I suspect this has gradually become the endgame for Democrats over the past decade or two in their efforts to make themselves incapable of being voted out of power. They have the opportunity to silence their opposition through legal means through control of all major cultural institutions, but evidently it only works by whipping their constituents into a perpetual frenzy and polarizing the country further. This isn’t even a consequence of the 2016 election either, it’s been going on since at least Obama’s second term.
The problem with this plan of training people to think with their fear muscle is... What happens when they begin to fear their trainers more than they fear the boogeyman? What happens when people realize "Hey, the only person I've ever seen in a klan hood is Ralph Northam and he has no power in this state, but the local autozone is on fire again"?
This is like the Gellman Amnesia Effect. Or like that movie 2012, where after the second time the protagonists live through CGI catastrophe, it's hard to look at the remaining runtime and give a fuck about the next life or death situation.
Fear is a powerful thing, it produces results, and often people just ignore a moment of clarity and return to being NPCs. But then once someone wakes up for real and realizes what they've been doing, how do you ever go back? What happens when they lose their ability to feel fear, or they realize that there is something even more terrifying?
I might be talking about the pathos roller coaster, but I'm thinking about the left that I used to believe in, and how I'll never see them the same way again. Even when they pretend to remember their old talking points, it's clearly only a temporary thing.
Seeing their true nature sucks, but I guess it's less demeaning than living in blissful ignorance.
Seeing their true nature sucks, but I guess it's less demeaning than living in blissful ignorance.
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