Besides trying to confuse existing categories, another trick that propagandists use is to invent farcical new ones that contain the whole world, and then present their agenda as an exciting new alternative to a previously invisible default
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This is a bit like pointing out the existence of water to the fish, and suggesting that they try breathing air instead. All your life you have been oppressed by waterism, and you didn’t even realize it! I call this kind of attack a categorical rebase (plz invent a better name!)
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The most successful categorical rebase in history may be convincing people that there is something called capitalism, and something called communism, and that all your unhappiness is caused by being trapped inside capitalism
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(Aside: libertarianism is another famous, but far less successful categorical rebase)https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1061983839940046848 …
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ZERO HP Lovecraft 🐬 @0x49fa98I hate the standard political compass, which I am pretty sure was popularized by libertarians trying to peel converts away from left and right using a childish and poorly conceived axis called “authority-liberty”. I made up this metric, see, and it shows you’re all on my side pic.twitter.com/PE9CpvKUzpShow this thread3 replies 2 retweets 55 likesShow this thread -
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Red pill: capitalism is not a thing, humans make markets like honeybees make hives, and communism is not an alternative to it, it’s the equivalent of trying to convince honeybees not to build hives.https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1036625619142959106 …
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When people criticize capitalism they are mostly talking about their own innate desires and capacities. They hate consumerism but natural selection endowed them with greed, hedonic adaptation, loss aversion, and a need to compete over status
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All the humans who felt peaceful and content and lived in harmony died out aeons ago, they were killed or eaten or outbred by the ones who were cunning and duplicitous and eternally hungry and eternally discontent, and you are their progeny
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Another more recent categorical rebase is the invention of the category “cisgender” and its attendant “alternative.” In the same way that communism is just disruption of disruption of social imperatives, transgenderism is just a disruption of bio-imperatives
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Real communism has never been tried because there is nothing to try, there is only breaking shit like a child throwing a temper tantrum because you have a malformed theory of moral desert
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"Capitalism" normally refers to responsible, right-wing policies, while "Communism" refers to the coddling of the irresponsible. It's only Hajnal Europeans, and the English in particular, that make markets like bees make hives.
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Everyone makes markets - they merely differ in sophistication Low trust people still have open air markets where vendors sell goods without listed prices High trust people have markets where sellers and buyers never have to meet and payments are made through third parties
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It's a bit like saying everyone builds power plants, but some of them are powered by human muscle.
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