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Enjoy your damn sovereign nation that nobody dare say anything even slightly negative about: population you plus 100,000 zombies plus the 3 thoughtful but craven people who will put up with your shit who you then deify as the only worthy humans.
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Retreat to your Mordor full of Orcs you big baby. Enjoy your palantir-Skype calls with Saruman, your only friend who can do more than grunt and smash things.
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A good test of what kind of followership you’ve cultivated is what happens when you say something stupid: are they smart enough to spot it and flag it, and kind enough to do so gently? Or do they simply double down and compound your stupidity, turning it into a trainwreck?
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If you do this, one of two things will happen: a) your own stupidity will grow by feedback until they drag you down to their zombie level b) you will overcompensate by never saying anything that risks being stupid, becoming uninteresting
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People mistakenly think this strategy is antifragile because zombie armies grow bigger/stronger with every battle. But it actually represents fragility. By systematically filtering out a class of signals using hostile defenses, you allow thinking inside to grow weaker.
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As the cognitive potential energy inside your zombie firewall shrinks and ages and fails to attract fresh blood to stay alive, you end up in an equilibrium of derp. No new imaginative thought can penetrate so what’s in there feeds on itself. Positive feedback squeal of 1 idea.
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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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