so if you want to get your own shit chosen for the pedestal, well, you might just have to knife the person in front of you to get that. I doubt they are as self-consciously Machiavellian about it but that is operant at a subconscious level.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
my impression is a lot like yours, not many people operating at a "planning" level, vast numbers of people desperate for a leg up and mimicking whatever they see getting attention and approval at a level way prior to "if this then that"
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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
the one piece that I can't quite fit into this hypothesis is why the sociopaths find it so so easy to recruit online rage mobs to do their bidding. why does some rando on the internet want to participate in that?
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um. these people don't exactly give me the impression of being full of euphoria or any other pleasant sensation. quite the opposite. seems more like they're stuck in a self-harm loop.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
idk, i think there is a joy to the mob takedown, but there are people trapped in it too, it's not like you can opt out or god fucking forbid defy the mobile vulgus if you want to be one of the people who gets to crowdsurf their way to solvency
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and to some extent if people seem miserable it's because the ideological commitments being exploited are about elevating the miserable so if you want to be elevated better find a reason you're not just miserable but more miserable than the next person
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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
right this is easy to observe in the wild. the competition to be the biggest victim. the most damaged. the most aggrieved. perhaps this is commented on too much because it's easy to notice and seems transparently bad. I want to develop insight into how that meme takes hold.
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Cultures have always ascribed moral authority to suffering. Partly because we don’t want to be mean to people in pain, partly because it’s assumed that lived experience provides a deeper insight.
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Everyone wondered why Rachel Dolezal wanted to be black and it’s like, duh? You guys really can’t imagine it?
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many such cases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDBlqu6KF4k …
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