One of the weird aspects of this age is how important people appropriate the emotions and feeling of others and make them their own. They will make statements about their feelings on a subject, but those feelings are not really their feelings because they cannot actually be experiencing the feelings in questions. Our Cloud People have normalized emotional appropriation as a way of projecting to the Dirt People that they have genuine human emotions.
The easy example here is the public person who has a rare moment of honesty and posts what they really think on Twitter. This sets off the familiar drama on-line in which people rush to their favorite platform to express their outrage. The fact that they have no reason to care, much less be outraged, goes unnoticed. Eventually, the director of this drama tells the star to waddle out on stage and issue an apology. In that apology, the star claims to feel things that cannot be felt.
For example, they always say something about feeling remorse for the pain they have caused, despite the fact this is impossible. You can feel remorse for causing harm to an actual human, but not for anonymous zombies on-line. Further, the people claiming to have been harmed were not harmed. In fact, the opportunity to play along in the drama was the highlight of their day, maybe their life. Like the famous people, they got to appropriate the feelings of others.
None of the emotions expressed in these offense-apology dramas can be real, because it does not involve real victims or real offenses. The star of these shows often says, “I apologize to those I have offended” but the statement itself says they are not sure who they could have offended. You can only apologize to real humans to whom you have committed real harm. An apology to imaginary people is an imaginary apology for an imaginary harm. It is all just emotional appropriation.
A recent example of this is the football coach caught dancing with a woman not his wife after a football game. For some reason, football fans were “outraged” as if we have suddenly been thrust into Victorian times. The owner of the team that employs the coach was scandalized, calling it “inexcusable”. The coach then apologized to imaginary people for something no one, other than maybe his wife, should have an interest, much less an emotional investment.
Another common example of emotional appropriation is the Cloud Person taking pride in something that does not exist. Politicians will talk about different communities, for example, as if they are rural villages with a well-defined character. The “trans community” is a current favorite. The politicians will claim to be proud of their support for the trans community. You cannot take pride in something you had no part in creating and you cannot be proud of something that does not exist.
Pride, ironically enough, is one of the most important emotions for our modern emotional appropriators. College presidents are always talking about how proud they are of their community. They are just hired fundraisers who drift from job to job, never creating anything but trouble. Yet, they will take pride in the work of others as if they had a hand in it. The fixation on the sin of pride by the Cloud People is one of those things that reveals much about our age.
The sin of pride, for those deprived of proper religious training, is considered a rebellion against God. The person committing this sin attributes to himself the honor and glory that is due to another, usually God. Since our Cloud People worship the arc of history, it sort of makes sense that they inappropriately take pride in that which is the product of generations of history. Pride has been called the cancer of the soul. It is considered the first and most serious of the deadly sins.
One reason for these weird public displays of emotion is that we have shifted from a male dominated culture to a female dominated one. Maintaining a stiff upper lip, especially in public, is a male attribute. Women, on the other hand, have always been encouraged to show emotion. This is why all public people feel a need to show emotion in public. It is how they project their piety. In order to gain status, you must show how much you care, which often means blubbering in public.
Another issue here, though, is the people who now dominate public life are not capable of real human emotion. They don’t do things, for example, for which they could take genuine pride. They don’t have a concern for the welfare of others. This is the age of the public sociopath. Caring about real people is a sucker’s play in this age, so the ambitious try to avoid it. The result is we get these weird dramas where the Cloud People appropriate the emotions of others.
In the novel Brave New World, humans in the imagined future went to something called the Feelies, which was a theater-like experience. They would be simulated to feel strong emotions via the use of various inputs. The people went to these things to feel things like grief and anger, because they had no way of experiencing these emotions in their regular lives. The combination of their genetic engineering and taking the happiness-producing drug called Soma blocked normal emotions.
Something similar happens today. The Cloud People are mostly sociopaths at this point, incapable of having normal human emotions. The general population, however, has been plucked from normal human community and thrust into a synthetic solution of consumerism that does not allow for the normal human experience. In order to keep the system running, the Cloud People are constantly creating synthetic emotions they can display and use to stimulate emotion in the Dirt People.
This is the appeal of mass media in general and social media in particular. Just look at the name “social media”. It is a replacement for the normal human socialization that would occur in natural human communities. The most emotionally unstable people are intensely on-line. They lack the normal structure of human community to keep them balanced so they seek an alternative on their phone. The result is a population on a roller-coaster of emotional appropriation.
Emotion is not much different from what comes from taking stimulants. The first hit is the best hit. The most intense emotions we feel in our lives are at the extremes, so the emotionalism of this age grows more intense. Public emotion in a liberal democracy is the opiate of the people. Therefore the emotional appropriation becomes more prolific and the drama more intense. We are shaking ourselves to pieces in an effort to feel that which has been normal for the life of man.
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Interesting post Z.
Your selection of Pride made me think of Pride Parades celebrating Homosexuality.
I’ve always wondered what the participants were “proud” of.
Inserting erect penises in others rectums?
Anonymous fellatio in public bathrooms?
I don’t get it.
Norm Macdonald has a great rant about guy who’s proud of his homosexual son, talking around the water cooler at work. I think it hasn’t been banned from the Tube yet.
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Thank you. I read Z’s passage on pride and my first thought was the Norm Macdonald / Dennis Miller clip about “I’m Proud of My Gay Son”.
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Regarding Norm’s bit, you are correct it has not been censored yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlE8UAK3mMM
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We need to memorize this bit, like Fahrenheit 451
The kind of communities the cloud people don’t care about are real communities—places where real people live, work, socialize, their kids go to school, make friends, etc. Wall Street and Washington DC don’t shed any tears over destroying businesses in these places in the name of free trade and efficiency and financial greed.
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Excellent post.
“Since our Cloud People worship the arc of history, it sort of makes sense that they inappropriately take pride in that which is the product of generations of history. Pride has been called the cancer of the soul. It is considered the first and most serious of the deadly sins.”
I had thought that cynicism was the cancer of the soul. In a time in which cynicism is a true and appropriate reaction to our Age of Grift, how is one to overcome or “heal” from cynicism short of withdrawal from the artificial life around us when withdrawal isn’t possible?
Even Z’s got a day job.
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“Age of Grift.” Perfect
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Americans value “sincerity “, the British value wit, the Japanese value “face”; and so on.
Where the forms of democratic are on display, the politicians will project what they must. But it’s mostly an act.
Good insight connecting “social” media, Brave New World and the feelies.
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I think Americans have been looking for public tears for a while now. It used to be just relegated to public preachers. Then something happened. Remember the robotic Al Gore trying to tear up about his wife or something, in 2000? Then Dale Earnhart died and there was the soppiest funeral I’d ever seen…so many southerners hadn’t cried since Sherman’s march. It accelerated after 9/11. All the news anchors were having a tear-off in the hours and days afterward. Then we get like every presidential candidate crying about something. Then we get baseball players, minor celebrities, and business people in hot water crying in public. Even Hillary Clinton tried to cry. I am embarrassed for my people, at this point.
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There are two, TWO, cuts f Faucci tearing up in that new trailer for the Disney movie. He has a lot to cry about so either he feels guilty for the roles he’s played in devastating the lives of millions (both now and in the 80s) or he’s a stone cold psychopath.
Gee.. let me think…
“the British value wit”
Not anymore, old son. The Brits seem to value fake tans, social media, emojis and virtue signalling. And being told what to do by benevolent mama gubmint…
Of course, some of us still hold fast.
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The pride England projects to the world via television is in its eight black actors, and via social media in its hundreds of rainbow-painted cop cars.
Being more repulsive than America is almost impossible, but they’re on it.
It’s over when Radio 3 stops being “boring” (the good kind). It’s trying.
Americans value “sincerity “
That’s funny, because it’s exactly this kind of untrammeled emoting that gets Americans a reputation for being fake.
And while the British “value” (and excel at) wit, it’s not *a* value, rather than a talent or an art form. The British value a stiff upper lip.
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An insightful essay. The allusion to the Seven was likely lost on many, for, as you say, a grounding in the what used to be the tenets of civil society has been lacking for several generations now. Funny how those ridiculed Churchmen were able to boil down the problems of Man into a simple list of seven.
As if it needed uttering, recall, pride goeth before the Fall.
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except for the major motion picture on the subject: Se7en.
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As everyone knows the biblical admonition that pride goeth before the fall, how soon for the fall? I’m getting antsy.
Everything points to a drastic collapse with our present Ceausescu in office. Will it be incremental or with major surges in the breakdown.
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I’d expect a couple major downshifts in the next year or so. Logistics industry is breaking down, petroleum byproducts are permanently short-supplied now, and microchips are unicorns. My guess is the first major storm will be mid-November when vaccine mandates coincide with the holiday rush. The second will be late January or early February when HVAC short supply becomes an issue. There will probably be issues in mid-spring once critical parts for heavy farm equipment prove to be in short supply.
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We should all be thankful that we have the firm hand of Captain Joe Biden at wheel with his able first mate, Kamala Harris, at his side to navigate the stormy seas ahead.
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Hey, if Basement Joe can handle a bad dude like Corn Pop we have nothing to worry about from Xi and Putin!
the Professor and Mary Ann—
Drew: Browsing around the web the past few days I’ve learned there’s a shortage of liquid oxygen for municipal water treatment, as well as chlorine (for swimming pools and emergency water purification). And, of course, Costco has limited purchases of bottled water. There’s a shortage of CO2 (worse in Britain) – so anti-White Coke and Pepsi are making bank.
I found mention of a ransomware attack on a large Iowa farming coop (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/5-9-million-ransomware-attack-on-farming-co-op-may-cause-food-shortage/), which I saw nowhere in mainstream media. Have not discovered any further stories about whether the ransom was payed, etc., but the original report claims this could significantly impact our supply of ‘grain, pork, and chicken.”
Natural gas prices are the highest they’ve been in 2 years, up 80% since Sep 2020. There was no general firewood on sale outside the grocery stores the other day, except a .65 cubic foot bag of Pinon wood for $10.99. Prices for Mr. Heater have almost doubled since early 2020.
We all know about the rising prices for gas/petrol, for wood and building supplies, the utter unavailability of many generators, etc. (I just picked up a few more propane canisters). The elites always seem compelled to advertise their plans, and then label anyone who notices a conspiracy theorist. I know nothing about any particular industry, but somehow I expect severe shortages to begin manifesting by Christmas and becoming acute at the height of winter.
Perhaps long underwear and cans of soup might be good holiday gifts.
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I think lumps of coal will be this year’s hip Xmas gift.
Burning it will give you an extra 15 minutes of heat and light before you freeze to death in the dark.
In this age of sacralized victimized, prides comes after the fall.
Sharp takes.
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When a spoiled child throws a tantrum over some imagined slight or offense, the wise parent administers a quick & sharp swat to the behind, the wailing comes to an abrupt end, the child learns an important life lesson (i.e. don’t pitch a fit over nothing), and life goes on as it should. But we now live in a society in which the responsible parent is arrested, labeled a child beater, scorned by the PC tribunal, likely fired from his job (and his means of supporting his family), and replaced by a paternalistic government who then proceeds to indoctrinate the child as a socialist. The child grows up to be a useless weenie that bursts into tears at the drop of a hat, and the Cloud people pat themselves on the back for a job well done.
If the above was attempted by a thug that broke into your house in the middle of the night, you would likely beat him to death with your bare hands. Why is it different when a rogue government does it?
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“Why is it different when a rogue government does it?”
Because special bits of paper, with laws on them. These laws are “who we are”. If it is law. It is right.
Never mind wondering if it is actually right or just or whatever.
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Main difference? They have guns and can kill you if you don’t comply. What if a citizen had attempted to defend Ashlii Babbitt from the government agent? How is Kyle Rittenhouse’s young life going?
The hardest thing about 2020/2021 was learning that our rulers can do whatever they want. My states ruler can waddle onto stage a week before school starts and say every child in the state has to wear a gag for 7 hours a day. Last year, he did it the Friday before school started.
If my company forces me back to my cube in the central business district, the muzzle is required to ride on the government train, in the “private” office building and don’t even get me started on taking the jab.
But it’s a free country. My choice.
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> Just look at the name “social media”. It is a replacement for the normal human socialization that would occur in natural human communities. The most emotionally unstable people are intensely on-line.
There have been an uncountable amount of extremely online people who have gone from reasonably sane but a little cantankerous to emotional wrecks who barf all their emotions on the screen. A lot of this is the simple fact that most online personas have a few years to shine before people move on to other acts and they are desperately trying to stay relevant. The other reason is many have replaced their real day-to-day existence with the online. This seems to go for people with 100,000 followers to people with 500 friends on Facebook and regardless of whether they even make an income. For some, dopamine is the income.
The smart influencers either understand how to separate online from reality, or know their schtick is just a game and can emotionally separate from it. Usually you can tell the sane ones when they go on vacation for a week and feel fine not posting.
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I had a buddy in grad school who went through this. He was always a Liberal, of course — we met in grad school — but he was one of those aspiring academics (vanishingly rare now) who really loved his subject, and just wanted to get on with it. His Liberalism, in other words, was just incidental.
But then he got a job at a tiny little school somewhere out in the sticks, where the town/gown split was all but total. The college was this hermetically sealed little world, which was bad enough, but since you can’t be on campus all the time, instead of sucking it up and joining a bowling league with the local farmers or whatever, he got online… and now he’s a flaming lunatic. He’s still cowering under his bed, wearing a mask at home, despite everyone around him living normal lives in the sun. But what’s he going to believe, Twitter or his own lying eyes?
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The Urban Meyer situation is even more innocent than that. The woman came up and started grinding on him while he was sitting on a barstool. Really his only mistake was not telling her to move away from him, which depending on how much he had been drinking, he may not have been a position to do. If he touches her to move her away from him, now it is “assault.” I was stunned this became a story, especially the Jaguars Arab owner, who has probably plowed through 20 women in a weekend before, saying how disappointed he was. The real lesson is famous people shouldn’t go to bars that don’t enforce a no phone policy inside.
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It’s pretty clear Urban Meyer has been selected for destruction by some shadow people, and they are not going to let go until he’s dragged into the abyss.
Another reason not to follow outrage online, but only wonder why someone wants you to be outraged.
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Someone told me he said nice things about Trump back in 2016, so that is why he has been marked for death by the sissy sports writers. I don’t care enough to check it out, but they have targeted him for some reason.
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I have been noticing an inordinate amount of negative news stories about Meyer in the newsfeed for weeks now. I know soon after he took the job he hired hired a strength coach who had resigned from his college job after accusations of racism. Then he gave Tim Tebow a try out. For whatever reason, a target has definitely been put on his back.
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Heh, the team owner is savvy enough to know his core demographic and is just playing to it.
You don’t get to be an NFL owner without knowing how to play to public opinion.
IOW, Cloud People gonna Cloud.
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Great article, Z Man. Must say, your output is usually very good, but the last couple of days have been brilliant.
Regarding masculinity and the ‘stiff upper lip’, I have had various conversations with the females in my family and all seem to say something along the lines of “If you just opened up about the problem…”. No. I do not wish to. From a woman, this is usually an invitation to reveal morsels later divulged to others for gossip.
When my father was seventeen, he was held up at a shop he worked in. He had a shotgun pointed at his head. He cried. He must have been terrified. The perps waited for the first arrival, who opened the shop, and busted in and bound him. They then did the same to the final two as they entered, separately. After the ordeal, what happened? They went back to work. He was scared. Bad things happened. He dealt with it. His father wasn’t one that you “opened up too”.
I cannot say that this “opening up” is always a bad thing. Perhaps it helps many a man – who has experienced genuine trauma – to share these feelings. But nowadays one need not have a gun held to one’s head in order to have some bug-entity tell one to “open up”. Electricity gone off and you can’t cope? Open up. Slightly more traffic on the road this morning? Open up. Boss giving you an ‘unfair’ workload? Open up. Someone called you a naughty name? Well, darn it, just open up!
I would say, though, that men who deal with things silently and by themselves have always impressed me. And I think they impress everyone. This could be why so many people want to discourage this behaviour. All signs point toward a society that cannot deal with hardship, but wants the medals for having done so. Your example of ’emotional appropriation’ is a good one. Sure, I’ve never had my legs ripped off by an IED or seen my comrades get drowned in an overturned APC in some river in some Afghan gorge; but I care because words.
I am not saying we cannot care. But it is often the ones who do the most obvious caring that really do want you to think they’ve suffered too. They haven’t.
When I was around 22 or so, one of my friends who had served in the Middle East (army), opened up. He was very pained at the things he saw. I couldn’t say anything to him, I just shut my cake-hole and let him talk. And cry. It was harrowing. Kids of our age in the most horrific situations, looked down on, of course, upon their return – if they returned. He’s doing well now, though. And bloody good for him, too. I suspect those on this board have similar stories. Probably things that happened to them, themselves.
Anyway. Like I said, good article.
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Terrible about your friend, for starters. There’s a vast difference between men opening up to other men and men opening up to women, of course.
Women say a lot of shit they don’t mean. Among them is expressing admiration for sensitive men who readily open up to them. BS. They prefer a stoic tough guy who doesn’t show overt emotion. It’s an evolutionary preference for fortitude that has served women well.
Show me a guy who limits opening up to his male friends and family (mothers excepted), and I’ll show you a guy who doesn’t have to worry about his wife or girlfriend sleeping around.
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Allowing the qualities, qualifications, and characteristics of masculinity to be defined solely by women was a central event in our cultural defeat.
Even among those on our side of the divide too many still seek to restore manhood by appealing to the female arbiters of manhood; negotiating with our captors to define and approve of some compromised masculine ideal that of course ends up further serving our captors. No accident that it is a microcosm of our larger war with the prog left.
But absent some mannerbund or robust community ordered around the natural hierarchy of men, that appeal to explicit feminized authority in hope of mere de facto feminized authority will constantly undermine our efforts to build anything other than another paddock for our boys.
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I knew a brother and sister who were always on dodgy terms with each other since they became adults. She complained he didn’t open up about his feelings enough and she felt locked out.
He got hit with a nasty divorce and she again encouraged him to open up to her, so he did. First phone call barf, she thought it was great. Second phone call barf, she said it was nice but thought he needed to get himself together. By phone call number five she was refusing to answer the phone and was complaining non-stop about how he needs to stop being such a putz and get his life in order.
Of course, once in a while a good barf over real trauma over drinks with the guys is healthy and right. If you’re going to do something insane call your bud to cool you off. That’s different than constant whining and emoting.
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It’s something I’ve thought about, since venting is the only thing that seems to work for me.
Psychoanalysts and Scientologists have been known to abuse confidence. The unethical sort, in fairness. In fact, I’d argue all of this emoting has been the instrument of our collective subjugation. Think advertising and consumerism.
The question for me is, is it merely wounding a person to fill the hole with stuff, or is it a kind of spiritual ransom?
But about venting, what seems to work is getting angry instead of vulnerable, at least for me. Toilet flushed, and people either respect it or are driven away. Seems to me its a shallow soul that can’t handle a little friction from time to time, so who needs them anyway 🙂
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*victimhood (if something this as sort can post)
one thing not mentioned is that people get addicted to intense emotions, whether positive or negative. all the rage heads online are completely taken over by the need to be enraged; they spend hours seeking it out.
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I’ve always suspected that Leftism and autism are strongly correlated. I know the definition of “autism” these days is pretty vague, and it gets some people riled up, but I think we can agree on a minimum quick-and-dirty definition: autistics know that they feel, but they don’t know what they feel; the mismatch between what’s going on inside and the socially appropriate way to manifest whatever-it-is, is what causes their characteristic behavior.
I noticed it a lot in college kids, becoming much more prevalent as we got closer to The Current Year. Lots of them have this odd, flat affect, like they’re idling in neutral, or a computer in sleep mode — you think you’re having a normal, everyday interaction with them, but you’re really talking to a screen saver. They can get in gear, and often do, but it’s always the same gear: 100%, hell-for-leather. Everything is either completely indifferent to them, or a complete triumph, or a complete catastrophe. Moderation, good enough, go along to get along… all of that is alien to them.
They’d fight tooth and nail for a single point on a single unit quiz, for example — which represented at most a fraction of a percent of their semester grade — and then completely forget to turn in the midterm. Or I’d set a term paper question: “What were the causes of the American Civil War?” and get back what amounted to a one-sentence response: “The causes of the Civil War were slavery”… and they couldn’t understand why that wasn’t an A. Didn’t they answer the question?
Leftism is tailor-made for that kind of person, because Leftism also doesn’t recognize concepts like moderation, good enough, and go along to get along. It’s all or nothing, and not only do you not get shunned if you get the screaming mimis over anything and everything, it’s actually encouraged. Trigglypuff is like that because she has no other way to be. She doesn’t even know what her emotions are, much less how to control and channel their expression. So she just screams.
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Great observation. I am starting to wonder if those people have lost their souls, or in Christian terms, surrendered them to a dark and nihilistic power.
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Yes. The screen. Not that it isn’t useful, but it’s also not real. Stare into the abyss, become the abyss.
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People who stand for nothing always fall for anything.
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Overgrown teenagers in a society that encourages people never to grow up.
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Its difficult to attribute a coherent belief paradigm in people who are also not quite people. The almost total lack of internal dialogue paired with a swollen hindbrain in perpetual fight or flight mode in defense of an eggshell ego makes for a rather inhospitable environment for developing an actual world-view. Their world is a house of mirrors.
Leftism is deeply anti-human so there is that alignment. So the prevalence of the sperg-spectrum OS in younger generations is well aligned with the narcissistic and nihilistic orientation that compels them to swim left. But I don’t even know if we can give them credit. I mean perverted idealism is one thing, but as you note even their idealism is a kind of facsimile.
Its long been known that social media use is like chemotherapy for empathy. What these kids are, more so than leftist soldiers, are actual NPC’s. Spiritually vacant. Philosophically inert.
What moves them is a collective programming of imagery in that screen in their heads. Makes sense given that these are generations that were raised by AI. The algorithm generation. Their “reality” is a personally curated alt-reality from which there is no escape but for the massive, trauma inducing unplugging.
Your descriptions of the increasingly absurd syllabus required to provide them explicit programming and to avoid the unknown triggering them is another example.
Racisms, “hate”, inequity, and other leftist talking points are just brands to be worn like yoga pants or those little white shoes the boyz are wearing. The actual threat is being detached from the AI and having real life rush into the voids.
If you haven’t watched “The Zoomers” you toob vidya, I recommend it. Disturbing but lucid view into the hive. And cutting indictment of our collective dereliction.
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read the book “Cell” by Stephen king, then watched the movie with John Cusack–“flocking” seems to the right term..
The NPC meme was not born in a vacuum my friend. They -are- very binary thinkers both by nature & nurture. That is the true tragedy here is that you have kids that are already somewhat robotic in nature with limited range of affect and stunted psycho-social development. Then you heap this propaganda & binary worldview on them and they literally couldn’t be anything BUT NPC Programmatic Robots.
The 2nd part of that tragedy is that even if you were to start them on a steady diet of RealTalk™ & Truthbombs® tomorrow it could take a lifetime or possibly never before they could be turned into something resembling a functional human again.
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hmm.. given you have read Jaynes. Does it not seem closer to the bicameral explanation that autism?
He describes a state where people have no volition other than that placed into their thumos byt he ahllucinated commands. And for the rest of he time are passive to outside stimulus.
I have read Jaynes, but it was long ago, so take this with a grain of salt, but… yeah. With two qualifiers: First, I’m not competent to evaluate a lot of Jaynes’s evidence (which comes from the early 1970s, so who knows how it holds up now?). Second, the college kids’ response was pretty much always the same: Rage, or what looked like rage. Even their triumphs seemed angry: “Take that, h8rz!!” The archaic civilizations Jaynes described also produced beautiful art, but I can’t see a modern “autistic” (or whatever we end up calling them) producing anything beautiful. It’s just neutral-neutral-Hulk smash!!!!-neutral….
I rather suspect that the younger cohorts toward whom you direct your observations are those who have been relentlessly subjected to “teaching for the test”, and most certainly in areas such as your field of history. Doubtless, they were taught by leftist indoctrinators to whom there are most certainly correct answers that hew unfailingly to their favored “Arc of History” dogmas. You know, along the lines of the Covidians” favored discussion-ending buzzphrase, “The Science Is Settled”.
Their victims have learned that punishment and humiliation follows for those who appeal to leftist-designated hatefacts, should they be so injudicious as to advance them in a misguided effort to think for themselves. You as their professor, a man of the Beforetimes, is rightly confounded. But you must understand, that while those from the ghetto have learned that “Snitches Get Stiches”, the products of these leftist miseducators have learned that “Thinkers Get Blinkers (or else)”. Terse, unreflective, politically safe answers should come as little surprise., sadly.
It seems like everything in the public realm is fake these days – including displays of emotion. There is practically nothing you can “hang your hat on” anymore, other than this blog for example. One of my favorite phony emotings is the “pain and heartbreak” etc., over the latest jogger to get whacked – as if anyone gives a s***, unless there’s a chance to cash in on the ghetto lottery or to ruin another White person’s life.
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Semi-OT:
Speaking of grifts, check out the honeydews making bank selling CRT to the government schools:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/conflict-interest-ag-garlands-family-getting-rich-selling-critical-race-theory-materials
No wonder the AG is threatening to send the Cheka after concerned parents that are pushing back.
It’s all so tiresome…
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Well as many are wont to say: Every. Single. Time.
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Really… Tribal Lawyer selling and pushing subversive nation-wrecking materials. Who could have foreseen this?!1? 🙄🙄
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Not Z.
It can’t possibly happen, its just flocking birds and you are just tiresome anti-cananites obsessed by the fact it is every time.
Look I know its every time, but its not really a pattern because reasons..
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PS in the King James bible, the leviathan is described as “the king of the sons of pride.” Sharp guy, Hobbes, who wrote his most famous work in response to the English Civil War which, he said, was caused by over-educated religious fanatics making their absurdly petty doctrinal spats into matters of public policy.
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A friend who owns a couple of restaurants participated in a conference call with several other franchise owners throughout the mid-Atlantic. They were dropped by the food distributor they’d had for years and the new distributor has increased prices by 10-12%. Many of them were addressing concerns over this increase. They were told they are fortunate to receive the food they are ordering at this point. They have worked for decades to build these businesses.
Perhaps they can wait for some ingenious insight from the brilliant Jen “circle back” Psaki as to how they should proceed in a way that won’t be “unfair and absurd”.
The ridiculous slogan “build back better” is the globalists code word for “utterly crush the middle class”.
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“Fortunate to receive their orders…”
…is a phrase that sounds like it was lifted from Poorly Made in China when the Chinese manufacturers flip the script on the Western importers.
“The most emotionally unstable people are intensely on-line.”
Then AINO is a “community” of moonbats.
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This level of focus on emotions is also a symptom of the feminization of society. Just saw that a couple of days back you had an article on the problem of dominating women in society. Most of what you write there is perfectly true. Women must frankly be subjugated to men again. Resistance to subjugation by women is a socalled shit test (if you dont know what a shit test is read Cheateau Heartiste or someone like him).
That said, it is important to emphasize that it is not women’s fault that we are dying as a civilization. It is men’s fault. There are no strong women, there are only weak men. When women become bossy sluts it is because men are too wimpy and pathetic to restrain them and punish such dysgenic behavior.
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I hope this site somehow stays on as a ghost website a hundred years from now. Assuming we still have electricity and the internet. It’s a perfect catalogue of our failures and the coming breakdowns that they will bring.
Thanks to social media, the West is now experiencing what the Japanese have lived with all their lives – social awareness. Specifically, the awareness of others and how bad behavior affects themselves and other people. Something many of us grew up with known simply as good manners.
The whole CV mask wearing hysteria was a mystery to the Japanese as they’ve always worm masks; not as a means to protect themselves, but to protect others if they have a cold and are socially conscious about possibly spreading it to other people. I found it amusing how many Americans got enraged over the very idea of wearing a mask as it somehow infringed on their freedom. That typical “it’s all about me attitude” we hear so much about.
On public transportation, Japanese commuters will not talk on their mobile phones because the conversation level could disturb other people. So they sit quietly until they get where they’re going and then make a call. Meanwhile in the west, those who use public transpiration have to listen to every idiot who blathers on about who knows what as if they’re the only person in the vehicle. And always louder than normal conversation level, as if they think yelling into the phone helps.
The difference being the Japanese have a clearly defined social behavior that is deeply ingrained in their society. Despite it’s many social flaws, the Japanese are a polite people who show respect to others, especially older people, which is greatly appreciated by anyone who has lived or worked there.
I remember a time when we taught our children good manners out of respect for general socially acceptable behavior. Now, those lessons are taught to people by others posting their bad behavior on Youtube and through public humiliation.
One thing I’m reminded of from this post it the crazed TicToc women posting from behind the wheel. It’s not just the diatribe of the day that they blabber, but also the most emotionally imbalanced things I’ve ever seen. Britany Spears wasn’t half as crazy as these women when she was shaving her head. Deep down, these are women who want to murder someone or something…anything…