“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).
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402·1 day agoThis whole thing feels reminiscent of the Maoist Hundred Flowers campaign, in so far as we are in the lead up to a campaign of severe repression on all those who have been outspoken against the administration.
To settle ideological problems, one must act through the democratic methods of discussion, criticism, persuasion, and appropriate education.” But we must remember the—incidentally quite remarkable—method of the “Hundred Flowers.” As in Nazi Germany in 1943,° there was a period of apparent liberalism when expressions of all sort of criticism, deviationism, idealistic and religious inclinations, and so on, were tolerated, authorized, even encouraged. Then, after all opponents had spoken, the wave of repression hit them: arrests, jail sentences, and, above all, political re-education took place. The purpose of the “Hundred Flowers Campaign” was to make opponents come out in the open so they could be arrested and eliminated.
A single sentence can contain multiple fallacies. Also it’s 5 logical fallacies, 1 rhetorical technique and 1 that just describes your general attitude. I’m not wasting any more time on you.
Your argument relies on a litany of logical fallacies: straw man, false dilemma, sarcasm as substitute, slippery slope, red herring and on top of that you’re gish galloping and making a bad faith argument.
What fascinates me is this convergence of right and left-wing philopshies. Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory draws on Baudrillard’ Simulation and Simulacra and Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. You then have a connection between the neoreactionary Dark Enlightenment traced to Baudrillard through Yarvin’s “blue/red pill” coinage and the Matrix reference of Baudrillard at the beginning of the movie. Then Baudrillard’s Fatal Strategies of defeating the system by pushing it to its conclusion grotesquely mirrors the goals of these right acceleration movements within the Trump camp.
I’ll be honest, after reading Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse, I think we have to accept the inevitability of civilization collapse. The right has not only accepted it as fact, but has planned and is executing their vision of the future. Of course it will be a travesty of whatever utopia they envision, but the left is woefully at a disadvantage with the most coherent strategy of “return to status quo”.
I’m just going to address your comment about Black people and sports.
Black people do not have a higher natural talent in sports, for Black youth sports is one of the only ways to achieve success, so they place a higher emphasis on sports. It’s evident because they are only dominant in the sports they have access to.
Pointing out that you harbor racist sentiments is not thought terminating, it’s apparent in your writing.
Thought-terminating cliché, it’s used to dismiss arguments and shut down critical thinking. It’s a tactic associated with cult language.
It’s a cult brainwashing technique.
Cults use jargon section of video for explanation:
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Hate to break it to you but we are well past the coup stage. The journalist badge stuff the other day was an important milestone.
Regardless of the pervasive reach of interpersonal social media and of the Internet … control over the mass media emanating from the political center will still be our most important weapon in establishing our authority after the coup.
Coup D’État: A Practical Handbook, Luttwak
One form of 4D Warfare is memetic warfare. Many have studied this grand and ancient art. I hope that by the end of this book, you will be able to perfect your memeing to unprecedented levels of winning.
There you have it! This guy is a major, major source of MAGA ideology and strategy. And this confirms that MAGA’s strategy really is a disingenuous, intentionally heightened, intentiontally threatening-and-gaslighting spectacle of fascism (in addition, of course, to being an actual fascist movement). Like a small creature puffing themselves up defensively, they are intentionally wielding the tools of propaganda, gaslighting, and manipulation in a campaign of public terrorization. Confirmed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/xa2zz5/deleted_by_user/
Nice sentiment, not based in reality though.
Voters are guided by their own personal circumstances, often punishing leaders when economic conditions worsen and rewarding them when they improve, paying little heed to the politician’s actions.
That was interesting, it’s too bad he didn’t mention how liberalism itself has been caricaturised. He said how liberalism believes all cultures and peoples are essentially interchangeable, that is demonstrably false, that is the caricaturised version of liberalism. The core tenet of liberalism is the right to be an individual, which carries the obligation to respect that right in others. There are cultures that do not respect that right, and are incompatible with liberalism. The consequence of neoliberalism and the total atomization of the individual has annihilated the core of liberalism, through the destruction of the cultural norm of respecting others individuality in so far as they uphold that obligation themselves, transforming liberalism into the negation of itself, that the “fuck you got mine” ethos and the cultures/ideologies that force themselves on others should be respected.
I think he misses a crucial point, that the “image” or “mythos” is the real, or hyperreal. In today’s society, those caricatures (depressingly) are more “real” than real. The medium is the message.
Most people live their lives wholly unaware of reality. If their entertainment programming doesn’t consist of anything informational, they will never know about events except second hand from others, like your case. The silent majority doesn’t vote in elections, not because they don’t see the point, it’s because they likely had know idea there were elections.
I had to explain to my friends what “mid-terms” were. They vote in presidential elections…
The first five minutes was satire, the “experts” sit in front of bookshelves to display their “smartness”, talk at people their “truths” to be taken on faith, and go through the rituals of asking to like/subscribe to their channel.
The pointlessness and excess of F1 racing is the point, it’s the culmination of all human culture, experience and meaning. We try to look for deeper meaning to life truth whatever, but there is none, the meaning is on the surface. That’s all there is, all that ever was and ever will be.
42·5 days agoThose headlines aren’t reality, it’s hyperreality, outside is a whole different world from what the images you are being bombarded with. You only have one life to live, may as well experience it while you can.
252·5 days agoIf you’re interested, this reddit thread has an interesting take on the reasoning behind their trolling strategy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/1o5dq1p/i_found_magas_playbook/
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