The Real Reason the Right Continues to Lose Every Ideological Battle
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What a crock of shit.
Trying to conflate individualism being the problem in a system that now demands conformity is retarded.
Being an individual and honoring traditions are not — in any reality — mutually exclusive. It is entirely possible to be an individual who doesn't want to be told what to do and still maintain morals and principles. The fact that this clown somehow thinks it isn't is a complete joke.
The reason the "right* keeps on "losing" is because this retard is too dumb to realize it's not.
This is the perspective of a mindless consumer who only looks at things from a surface level perspective. It took the entire institutional might of the most powerful country the world has ever seen to try and smear a President and ruin is reputation enough to make him lose re-election, and in the end they still failed and had to resort to outright cheating.
Why is that? Because the "right" that he says is "failing" is steadily growing stronger.
He gained millions upon millions of votes. He's the first incumbent President ever to "lose" re-election while gaining votes. There's also numerous other historical "first time ever's" that took place, too. Th statistical impossibility of all of those happening simultaneously points to one very clear conclusion: it was stolen.
In the same election Republicans won all 27 House races the "Cook Political Report" rated as “toss-ups” in its 2020. All of them.
How is that losing?
The Democrats were so screwed that they could only pour their entire focus into pumping out fake ballots with no down ticket marked because they were getting that screwed.
This clown can't seem to differentiate between the TV and Consumer culture — which is entirely operated by the Liberal wing — and what's taking place in observable reality.
The methods they're using are all based on dishonesty, propaganda, authoritarianism, and misinformation. There's others as well but I think people get the gist.
Those methods are completely unsustainable.
To make it even more clear: they're a one-way ticket.
As many already know, once you see how shit really is, there's no going back. It's why the term "red-pill" has been such a fitting description.
It's one of those "once you see it you can't unsee it" type situations. Every day, more and more people are seeing the shocking frequency that the left and their cohorts lie. This has never been more true as with the riots, mandates, vaccines, Biden screwing shit up, and Covid itself. If they were on the fence before, then when they begin to notice who, exactly, the people speaking the truth are now, it's going to make them begin to question a lot more. That's why the truth is such an effective weapon. A lie can only be covered up — you can only create more lies to do that. The truth, however, is the truth — it simply exists as is and is immutable. That's why whenever they can, they try their best to use it but misrepresent it in every conceivable way. Which is also why it's important to know that and call it out for being deceptive.
The truth is a much more effective tool than a lie. As I mentioned before, this is a war of attrition that will take time. It took decades for them to achieve this power, there's no way in hell you're undoing it in a year or two, it's just never going to happen.
That said, the truth is a very powerful weapon and the methods we're currently using are working — and quite well, too. Just because you're not noticing it being showcased in consumer culture or mainstream society, doesn't mean nothing is changing.
To put it another way, I don't buy his myopic drooler hot-take of: "tHe RigHt iS fAiLiNg bEcAusE dEy vAluE fReEdoM! dEy sHouLd bE LiKe LibErALs aNd giVe iT uP fOr gRouPtHinK iNsTeAd!"
in fact, it pisses me off in it's sheer stupidity.
Even more so when his solution literally equates to: become the same thing as the people you hate, but just a different flavor!
Brilliant.
What an original thought. Certainly no one has ever thought of that shit before.
Then what happens, genius?
I'll tell you.
Then we immediately give validation to everything that they say about the people on the conservative side "trying to force their old fashioned views on society" because the "right" also has zero — as is none — control over TV, Mainstream Media, Social Media, Games, Music, Movies — pretty much all avenues to reach the masses and control a narrative.
Knowing that, if we actually tried what he suggests, all of those institutions would be flooded with demonstrable proof of everything they're constantly preaching — giving credence to their concerns.
His potato-brained solution only works if those things are under the control of the "right;" we all know they're most definitely not.
Furthermore, this clown just doesn't seem to get it. In fact, he's part of a much larger issue. It's an issue that's concomitant to many people on the right side of the political spectrum: there is no going back.
It's never going to happen. It's literally impossible without a full societal collapse.
You damn idiots that keep thinking it's the solution need to pull your heads out of your ass and cope with that reality.
How is something so simple that it borders on elementary lost on so many people?
Pandora's Box has been opened. It's too late. Get it through your thick skulls.
The path forward is elucidating the importance of traditional values in a way that fits in with the world we have.
He says it's individualism that lead us to where we are?
No. That's bullshit.
Without people feeling stifled and repressed because of clowns like him, who can't figure shit out, it would have never lead to where we are now. That's the reality.
Let me be explicitly clear: the problem is not individualism. The problem is ideologies.
Ideologies lead one group or another to feel like they're being stifled. That's where the saying "the pendulum always swings the other way" comes from.
One group forces a different group to adhere to their ideology. Whether that be hedonism or traditionalism, it's always a back and forth.
The solution isn't to constantly keep swinging. That's the retarded shit that's lead us into this cycle of rebirth and destruction we see time after time historically. The solution is to find balance in both.
Individualism has nothing to do with this shit.
This retard can go eat a bag of squashed monkey assholes.
This comment was a better read than the actual article.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Sometimes I look back and think to myself that I really could have worded things in a better way. Hopefully as time goes on I can get better at communicating what I mean. I enjoy hearing other people's views and don't believe it's necessary that people agree on everything. I've actually learned a lot and have seen many things from a different perspective because of people in communities I've participated in.
I think that's one of the things that really frustrates me about the current demand for intellectual conformity.
I agree completely. It's not desired at all. Which you would think people would recognize how pernicious that is to advancement. Modern society itself was built on top of people who had the freedom to question everything and not accept the status quo.
Everything that we enjoy is the product of someone who wasn't satisfied with how things were. If we take that away, we're only setting ourselves up for a world of stagnation; a never ending present where people simply exist with no motivation to strive for a better future.
I'm convinced that one reason we see so many people adamant about the way they're recognized in the physical world is because the demand for conformity has stifled diversity of thought, which has driven people to embrace diversity of the material self. I can't help but think that living in such a way is shallow and empty.
But it almost seems like an inevitability when you live in a society that glorifies some of the worst aspects of our species while simultaneously profligately denigrating the better qualities.
I think the point of the article is that when everyone is free to do as he likes many will start doing silly stuff and there is no way to stop stupidity when it reaches critical mass and starts rolling over society. To counter that you need some stiff rules and the right is not willing to make any of them. It is a take for Americans since European right is not like that and has other problems.
Hey man , i think this article has an intriguing approach to the culture war, i didn't write it or agree with it , it is just an interesting start for a discussion . Are you new in the internet or something? people reposting John Flynt's stupidity are not agreeing with Brianna.
Don't take it personally, I wasn't insulting you but the people who agree with such a point of view. I apologize if it came across that way.
He proposes that "rules" are the solution and I'd agree and disagree. The reason for that is because "rules" are what ended us up in this very position to begin with.
What I believe is much* more important and necessary is education — and not just in the traditional sense, although that's important as well. Understanding why certain traditional systems, values, and and structures are in place and how those benefit society as a whole. You can make all the rules you want, it's really not going to amount to much as we've seen elucidated time after time. In fact, even this conversation itself is antithetical to the belief that rules will solve the issue. Mainstream culture has dictated that many of the things we're speaking of are no longer appropriate and go against the "rules" that are promulgated every day.
But before that, we need to address what the problems are. From my perspective, there are plenty of major issues; however, there are two that stand out above the rest that have been like a pestiferous tumor on society in recent years: Ideologies and Consumerism.
I've spoken about both at great lengths before, but it's important to reiterate how inimical they've become to the world we live in. He addressed one aspect already by mentioning consumerism and I agree with much of what he says, but when his solution is to use ideologies to solve the problem, that's where it immediately falls apart. Ideologies are what have created this cycle that we've seen repeat throughout history.
If we went with his solution of "rules," then it's going with a solution of trying to impose one groups ideological beliefs over another. I don't see any way that it's possible for that to work at all. I would agree that in most regards the traditional ideologies are far better for society as a whole. I actually don't even have much of a problem with most of that ideology and very likely share many of the views concomitant to those beliefs as well, but as a solution it doesn't measure up to what's needed presently. We also inevitably run into the problem of who, exactly, determines what these rules are?
More than ideologies, it's consumerism that's decimating our society. As we watch the slow merge of corporations and government pushing for the unification of the western world to form an omnipotent globalist government with a foundations built on top of authoritarian socialism.
The degradation, hedonism, and degeneracy, that he justifiably points to as the problems certainly are a major source of societal decay. Where he gets it wrong, however, is saying that it's a result of "individualism" — it's most certainly not. Anyone who pays attention to the deleterious trash being inculcated through consumerism should quickly realize that everything they offer is saturated in promoting intellectual conformity. It's mendacious propaganda that tells people to surrender their intellectual autonomy and let those deemed "experts" make the decisions for them. There's no way that anyone can convince me that the people who ingurgitate consumer culture are expressing "individualism" — it's an idea that borders on absurdity. By every conceivable unit of measure I feel confident in saying that consumerism — in its current iteration — promotes conformity over individualism.
I don't even understand how he could possibly suggest otherwise, honestly. They may throw a thin veneer of "individuality" on top, but it doesn't take much investigating to quickly realize the intolerance that accompanies that "individuality."
I mentioned it elsewhere in this thread, but what they promote is diversity of the material self, while simultaneously demanding intellectual conformity. More often we're seeing a total lack of diversity of thought, which is the part that truly makes us who we are, and the creation of a homogeneous hive-mind of miserable people screaming consumer manufactured shibboleths.
To put it another way, consumerism proposes that people sacrifice their individual identity and instead appropriate a group identity; they celebrate tribalism and admonish the individual.
One of the more gross abuses that we see come from consumer culture is the use of emotional manipulation in order to guilt people into following the prescribed narrative. Any time you see a celebrity, influencer, media talking head, politician, etc. make an appeal to emotions, it should immediately set off alarms. That's a tactic that's been used by con-artisits, charlatans, and dictators with great success throughout history. Besides its effectiveness, it's pretty apparent why the use it as well: women. Women not only make up a larger portion of TV/Entertainment viewership, but they also make up a much larger portion of consumers overall.
For brevity, I'll simply say that putting subjective emotions over sensible logic is one of the cornerstones present in consumerism that's destroying our culture. Basing policy and cultural norms off of emotional responses will only lead down a rabbit-hole of self-destruction. It's a practice that must be balanced. Historically, this has always been the case. Where men have made decisions based off logic, women have always been present to temper them by helping them consider things through an emotional lens, so they can consider the impact. Basing any culture off of just one or another is a recipe for disaster. For the overall health of society, balance must be kept.
I'll get to the point since no one wants to read some garrulous internet post anyway. As I mentioned in my other post, there's no going back to how things were. The methods being use are working, we're just not seeing those results promoted in consumer culture. For me, that's totally ok, since I don't particularly subscribe to that part of society much anymore. We have to consider if those results that are being achieved are enough, though. In my opinion, I don't believe they are.
Earlier I said that I believe education is a much more necessary part of the solution. That's not just education from schools either; parents, neighbors, and all of society must take an active role in participating in understand and passing down these values. That's how it's traditionally been done with great success. It's not the entire solution but just one of the more important parts. At some point people must stop relying on their consumerism habits to do all the work for them. We live in a time where people have the entire breadth of human knowledge at their fingertips at all times. Instead of using such an amazing tool to further their knowledge and educate themselves, they've decided to accept the convenience of being told what they should think by people they've designated as superior to them because of their platform. This is pure insanity on every level. When was it that people suddenly began believing that education ceased the moment you were no longer participating in an institution? We can all strive to become polymaths by using the massive wealth of tools available to us. in that regard, almost all of our Ancestors would be flabbergasted at the intellectually inept drones that so many have become.
We've reached a point where a ton of people are finally coming to the realization of the consequences for their apathy and complacency.
While there's a lot more I could say, this post has already become far too long for something that's just going to slide into oblivion.
I hope it helps clarify a little bit what my thoughts are. I'm pretty much done with it all for now. It's a much more complicated problem than I think most of us would think. There's undoubtedly a huge amount of intricacies that I'm sure I'll continue to discover as well, but I don't think I'll ever agree that the solution to combating authoritarian ideologies being pushed is to respond by doing the same thing.