existing power structures did not get where they are by being bad at power the existence of easy and quick communication means that opposition to power is easy to organize therefore, power must be able to either suppress or subvert enemy communicationshttps://twitter.com/metadiogenes/status/1249742055347273729?s=20 …
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precisely communicating what you want is hard, cant be done at scale, and its not like most people agree about the details anyway so you dumb it down a bit, you be less precise, you build coalitions and then you open yourself to chapman sociopathshttps://twitter.com/imhinesmi/status/1249758477972578307?s=20 …
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any sufficiently vague but good-sounding slogan has room for misinterpretation this can be used by you (motte/bailey) or against you (quote mining) it also allows people loyal to old power to twist your movement into whatever serves old power
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the current power in the us is consumerism and the market the way that it twists movements is by selling paraphernalia and giving anyone successful at anything nice things in this way, people can "help" a movement by consuming and participating in the market
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this is where the taboo on "selling out" comes from the end result is that everyone who "cares" about a cause will buy a hollowed-out identity, featuring the symbols that used to mean something good the real ideology will be eaten by the markethttps://twitter.com/imhinesmi/status/1249758569634902017?s=20 …
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this essay by moldbug is very relevant herehttps://americanmind.org/essays/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime/ …
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this is why people harp on about ideological purity because the market will not stop if you give in a little because if you let in people who dont completely agree with you, the movement will disintegrate
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behold, the face of moloch give up whatever you care about, so that you may have the power to fix ithttps://twitter.com/AlphaMinus2/status/1249808100909072384?s=19 …
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