Clownpills. They come in every "pill" color variety.
Pushing back harder
Some clownpills are doing just that. The go-to metaphor is the boiling of the frog. Pushback is looking at this pot on a raging element, and adding a bit of cold water into the pot. The circus instead looks at it and says "I wonder if boiling oil would go well in this pot?". They're not pushing back, not by any means. But their actions may lead to the frog realizing its situation.
At their core, Clownpills are accelerationists. "Global warming is bad, therefore we should nuke China.", "If we kill all old people, COVID's mortality rate would go way down", "I identify as a woman only when performing world record feats for women, then revert to a man, because I am gender fluid". That kind of thing.
Those who "enjoy the chaos" have arguably a better chance of changing things than adding an icecube to the pot, when the heat below is entirely unchanged. So I wouldn't write off the laughers, I'd ask them to tell better jokes than the ones they're laughing at.
Why did modern war change? Because the joke of the value of human life became too much. You've got nuke-enabled countries sending guys with pottery helmets and crotchpieces to throw fragmentation grenades around, when one button would remove the entire country from the map. Because war accelerated too hard, way too fast, and the entire world pulled back. There is precedent in accelerationism leading to a flip.
Add the ice cubes, point out that what they're doing is flawed and foolish. Tell people their worldview they've based their lives on is wrong. But don't discount the jesters also telling the same people that their worldview is not only correct, but they themselves are inferior at it and need to go to ridiculous extremes or their lives are worthless under their own ideology, unless that changes.
Clownpills. They come in every "pill" color variety.
Some clownpills are doing just that. The go-to metaphor is the boiling of the frog. Pushback is looking at this pot on a raging element, and adding a bit of cold water into the pot. The circus instead looks at it and says "I wonder if boiling oil would go well in this pot?". They're not pushing back, not by any means. But their actions may lead to the frog realizing its situation.
At their core, Clownpills are accelerationists. "Global warming is bad, therefore we should nuke China.", "If we kill all old people, COVID's mortality rate would go way down", "I identify as a woman only when performing world record feats for women, then revert to a man, because I am gender fluid". That kind of thing.
Those who "enjoy the chaos" have arguably a better chance of changing things than adding an icecube to the pot, when the heat below is entirely unchanged. So I wouldn't write off the laughers, I'd ask them to tell better jokes than the ones they're laughing at.
Why did modern war change? Because the joke of the value of human life became too much. You've got nuke-enabled countries sending guys with pottery helmets and crotchpieces to throw fragmentation grenades around, when one button would remove the entire country from the map. Because war accelerated too hard, way too fast, and the entire world pulled back. There is precedent in accelerationism leading to a flip.
Add the ice cubes, point out that what they're doing is flawed and foolish. Tell people their worldview they've based their lives on is wrong. But don't discount the jesters also telling the same people that their worldview is not only correct, but they themselves are inferior at it and need to go to ridiculous extremes or their lives are worthless under their own ideology, unless that changes.