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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suppression looks like censorship, disappearing dissidents, blatant propaganda it often leads to good ideas being harder to communicate i dont really know what the insides of suppression regimes look like, but the ussr and prc are two prominent examples
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here in the us, where we are a civilized democracy, existing power structures subvert threats corporations sell che shirts, the people who push the most for racial equality are white, and people buy laptop stickers to "protest injustice"https://twitter.com/imhinesmi/status/1249751334808674306?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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ian hines @imhinesmiReplying to @imhinesmi @BonbonFork and 2 othersadvertisers dont spread ideology per se, they spread identities which imply a certain "ideology" (which consists entirely of aesthetics as opposed to opinions) advertisers only come in after some activist success so that there is a market1 reply 1 retweet 10 likesShow this thread -
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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"because if you let in people who dont completely agree with you, the movement will disintegrate" How to make change without coalition? How to build a wide coalition without letting in people who agree with you? maybe the truth is planned change isn't viable long term
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there are tradeoffs between accuracy and power purity allows for small groups doing strongly aligned action this includes truer messaging and persuasion but purity is polarizing, and leads to more enemies
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yeah, purity works by selectively making your group smaller it directly works against scale
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