If you can *command* serious attention through your work or words, you need to *demand* better behavior from those who supply it. Every time you trade 1 thoughtful follower for 2, 5, or 10 desperately anomic idiots ready to go e-fedayeen for you, you dehumanize yourself and them
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Straussians are particularly vulnerable to this shit because they believe some version of “everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten”. That a few esoteric sources that can cover all they need. That the rest of the world only needs exoteric broadcasts, not listening.
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Add to that their tendency to believe in the rightness of telling noble lies and the moral/ethical legitimacy of using idiots as tools at scale, and hey you’ve got digital Genghis Khans creating a Zombie Warring States era online. World War Z.0.
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And you know the most ironic thing here? Every one of you reading and agreeing with this thread knows exactly the top few people I’m talking about here but am deliberately not tagging or naming. Because they’d turn THIs thread into a war zone too.
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They tell themselves that we are cowardly, unimportant digital-middle-class chatterati doing bullshit jobs and intellectualizing without fighting in their big important crusades, and that they’re missing nothing. That we are to be either ignored or burned with righteous wrath.
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In a way it’s the age old conflict pattern: kings+restive peasants against middle classes. But somehow I suspect we’ll last longer. The world is too complex for idiots to run, and too big for a few straussian crypto-monarchs (in all senses of ‘crypto’) to run by themselves.
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Note: zombies are mostly CREATED through such exploitative, radicalizing thought leadership. You don’t draw from a large pool of waiting natural-born zombies. You zombify potentially mentally healthy people, by betraying trust earned through original work https://twitter.com/neilscudder/status/1018561267345211392?s=20 …
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One more. I try but fail to see the world from the zombie stormtrooper perspective. All I can imagine is they’re lonely people who turn a slight emotional resonance with a distant celebrity, plus a small sign of royal favor like a like, into an entire desperately protected psyche
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... but ... Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
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