Against their ideology? The ideology of the left has always been power for power's sake. They can dress it up in whatever flowery egalitarian language they like, but what draws people to the left is the idea of centralized control, of being one of the shapers of the perfect society, of being a part of the Inner Party.
They are fundamentally no different from the globalists. Communism was the original globalism: they were using the language of the international proletariat and "workers of the world unite" more than a century ago. The fundamental line through all of it has been: Trust us to solve your problems for you.
They latch on to whatever globalist program is being rolled out next because they perceive that doing so is a path to more power and influence. That's all there is to them.
Consider their guiding philosophy, Critical Theory.
It's very basis is that reality is subjective, hierarchies are artificial constructs, and morality is oppressive.
They are already primed to believe two contradictory statements simultaneously, which is why CRT makes no sense to anyone applying consistent standards to it. It's the exact tactic used in communist countries and illustrated in Orwell; if someone believes something they know to be false, they can believe literally anything.
Who is pushing CRT et al? The very globalist conspirators that are now moving to install a global dictatorship.
Yup, because old-school socialism is generally utterly repellent to the people it claims to be for (the modern intersectional variant will be once it's full impact becomes known, I suspect) about the only way die-hards can advance their agenda is to co-opt somebody else's. As such, they will always tend to favour the most authoritarian implementation of government for one simple reason:
Which is easier, to convince an entire population that this year's socialism is what's best for them or to convince one dictator to force socialism upon the populace?
Psychologizing is a liberal cope when they run into the inconvenient truth that many people are not capable of agency and do not desire freedom. It's not a pathology. These people are not gripped by some sort of psychosis. This is simply how most people are; they want to be told what to do and there is nothing wrong with that.
Most people are NPCs including many who agree with me. It gets worse the more popular a particular view is. Even if it's the correct view, people will still believe it for NPC reasons rather than well-reasoned ones.
I'm always the most wary of those that need to tell you they are smart they usually throw credentials at you or parrot popular opinions they think make them look smart. I find most of those people to be nothing more than a parrot with no ability to think about what they are claiming.
The PMC aren't low IQ, they're midwits in the 105-115 IQ range.
Smart enough to grasp concepts of causal relations, interconnected systems, and a myriad of correlations, but not smart enough to intuit system complexity, consider chaos theory, understand game theory, or to see very deeply into any problem. Knowing a little bit about something they are comfortable having opinions about it, because they lack the imagination to understand the immensity of what they don't know.
Socially they go through their formative years as opinionated among peers who never challeng them, because no teenager has a holistic view of anything. This errodes in them over time any sense of humility, and continuing in midwit fields surrounded by other midwits they never grow out of this sense that they have the answers to everything. It's never a very exact answer, if you press them, but always ends in some argument to authority, from an authority that's either also a midwit, or from some data they have completely misrepresented or misunderstood.
They alse tend to reduce everything to 2 dimentions (y is because of x), or 3 dimentions (if we do x right now then we will achieve y), while those smarter are mostly concerned with how systems work in motion, e.g. not "how do we achieve x", but how do we design a system that consistently produces results that trend the closest towards x.
My theory is that; 1) people above and below this midwit-range have more in common with eachother than either have to midwits. And 2) midwits have a lot in common with those who are low IQ (below the 90s).
(1)
People from about 90ish to 105ish are generally not coming up with grand theories of everything and are happy to admit that they don't know. They tend to be concerned with their lives, and have a commonsensic view of things.
People above are also not interested in such theories because they intuitively know that they don't know. They tend to be concerned with their professions or academic fields. Both groups engage with politics only enough to be left alone. This alliance does all the important work and create all the innovation.
(2)
The ones in the midwit range are convinced that they know what they're seeing in the metaphorical fog. Feeling the fog, and feeling that they need to make sense of it, causes anxiety. They study other midwits and build upon their midwittery. And they become obesessed with these grand narratives they're working on in tandem. This conviction makes them want to impose their reality upon everyone else as any opposition or critisism causes mental dissonance. They are natural activists. Their sense of rightousness trains them into becoming propagandists and manipulators. They are natural groupthinkers because their map of meaning consists of the opinions of others, where everything is intertextual and reality is subjective.
The low-IQ see even the everyday life of family, work and entertainment, and the simple systems in place to facilitate the everyday world, as part of the fog, which must be terrifying as in a fog everything is chaotic and complex and hard to grasp and thus frightening and a potential threat. As such they are very quick to take to theories that give meaning to the chaos they experience. Historically that's been religion, but more recently critical theories and thier favorite 'ism' has become a one answer explanation for everything.
This creates an alliance where the midwits knit togeher the framework that the stupes use to justify their actions and situations brought about by their inability to delay gratification and to plan for the future.
The groups intuitively understand each other. The first alliance is united by common sense and positivity born out of their "chop wood carry water" mentality, and a desire to be left alone to enjoy their life. They're ok with uncertainty and therefore they reject grand theories.
The second alliance is united by an underlying constant sense of fear, anxiety, and confusion. They are not ok with uncertainty, becuse more uncertaintly means more anxiety, and they are already at dysfunctional levels of anxiety. Therefore they retreat into delusions. The anxiety also compells them to force everyone to share their grand theories, because any challenge to the delusion is experienced as more anxiety.
Think back to high school. Y'know the people who ran for student government? Remember how they were inevitably vapid idealists who didn't comprehend how pointless student government was?
Now fast forward. Y'know how all of us understand that the UN is a sock puppet theater?
Remember how they were inevitably vapid idealists who didn't comprehend how pointless student government was?
I'd say it was maybe 1/2 that and half people trying to build their resumé up for college applications. Maybe a distinction without a difference, though.
A narrative has been formed for them that fits nicely into their perception of themselves, and conveniently gives them an enemy to focus all their hatred on. It's really easy, they don't even need to think. The story that they believe is their opinion is confirmed everywhere. Mainstream news, government, late night comedy, social media, search engines, and many of the people in their surroundings who have been sold the same narrative. Even more convenient, all the news or opinions countering it has been removed.
All you need is a small percentage of zealots (I think the magic number is 15%) who will not compromise on anything. Then you need a group of at least 35% that just don't care enough about a particular issue to put up a fight. Once you have both of those, you get whatever the zealots want, no matter what the majority wants.
And this is why I keep pushing the idea that we must also be zealots.
Don't hire danger hairs. Don't help danger hairs. Hurt (in all non-rule2 ways) danger hairs at every opportunity.
Right now, going along with these freaks is the easy path. We must make that hard, so the morons who always take the easy road are forced to actually make a choice.
This is the point I wanted to make- they are followers, not thinkers. They aren't doing anything for moral reasons; they screech other people's opinions and values because that's what's popular.
We are in the middle of a completely rampant, unchecked narcissism epidemic that has been ongoing for almost twenty years now. All the globalists had to do is tell the narcissists they can act smug over a new thing and no one was going to stop and consider the old thing or what has changed, all that matters is power and being a total fucking shitstain to your neighbors.
They are literally completely oblivious to objective reality, and as such capable of holding 2 completely contradictory positions without even noticing.
This it the regressive left's ideology. It was never about making things better or helping people, it was always making others suffer and be the slaves to their special snowflake selves.
Gaslighting, gatekeeping, shaming, tacit threats of exclusion, the usual. Keep them in the dark, and feed them shit. I would guess most leftists have no idea they're supporting real actual neo-nazis in Ukraine.
What I'm curious about and unlikely to ever get answered is why are their optics so purposefully bad? Why openly display the black sun and swastika? What makes a man sign up for Azov Battalion but not ask "ok when are we overthrowing that kike in Kiev?" You know, beside the obvious answer that A30B is just junior varsity ISIS, controlled by the CIA, and never attacks jewish targets because their role is to help the United States do some globalist shit in the region. They appear to be useful idiots and regardless of whether Ukraine or Russia wins, they will be discarded after their usefulness is at an end. Much the way ISIS can be discarded at will.
Against their ideology? The ideology of the left has always been power for power's sake. They can dress it up in whatever flowery egalitarian language they like, but what draws people to the left is the idea of centralized control, of being one of the shapers of the perfect society, of being a part of the Inner Party.
They are fundamentally no different from the globalists. Communism was the original globalism: they were using the language of the international proletariat and "workers of the world unite" more than a century ago. The fundamental line through all of it has been: Trust us to solve your problems for you.
They latch on to whatever globalist program is being rolled out next because they perceive that doing so is a path to more power and influence. That's all there is to them.
Consider their guiding philosophy, Critical Theory.
It's very basis is that reality is subjective, hierarchies are artificial constructs, and morality is oppressive.
They are already primed to believe two contradictory statements simultaneously, which is why CRT makes no sense to anyone applying consistent standards to it. It's the exact tactic used in communist countries and illustrated in Orwell; if someone believes something they know to be false, they can believe literally anything.
Who is pushing CRT et al? The very globalist conspirators that are now moving to install a global dictatorship.
Devout Christians will of course recognize this for what it is. The philosophy of the Dark One.
maybe. not all Christians are simpletons though.
Yup, because old-school socialism is generally utterly repellent to the people it claims to be for (the modern intersectional variant will be once it's full impact becomes known, I suspect) about the only way die-hards can advance their agenda is to co-opt somebody else's. As such, they will always tend to favour the most authoritarian implementation of government for one simple reason:
Which is easier, to convince an entire population that this year's socialism is what's best for them or to convince one dictator to force socialism upon the populace?
"The ideology of the left has always been power for power's sake."
I thought this was a good quote and important, but too many ppl might not actually read your post because of the length.
Psychologizing is a liberal cope when they run into the inconvenient truth that many people are not capable of agency and do not desire freedom. It's not a pathology. These people are not gripped by some sort of psychosis. This is simply how most people are; they want to be told what to do and there is nothing wrong with that.
This.
Humans, at their very core are herd animals.
They go on and on about freedom and equality, but in the end most only want to be led. That is why democracy is sham system.
Most people are NPCs including many who agree with me. It gets worse the more popular a particular view is. Even if it's the correct view, people will still believe it for NPC reasons rather than well-reasoned ones.
I'm always the most wary of those that need to tell you they are smart they usually throw credentials at you or parrot popular opinions they think make them look smart. I find most of those people to be nothing more than a parrot with no ability to think about what they are claiming.
The PMC aren't low IQ, they're midwits in the 105-115 IQ range.
Smart enough to grasp concepts of causal relations, interconnected systems, and a myriad of correlations, but not smart enough to intuit system complexity, consider chaos theory, understand game theory, or to see very deeply into any problem. Knowing a little bit about something they are comfortable having opinions about it, because they lack the imagination to understand the immensity of what they don't know.
Socially they go through their formative years as opinionated among peers who never challeng them, because no teenager has a holistic view of anything. This errodes in them over time any sense of humility, and continuing in midwit fields surrounded by other midwits they never grow out of this sense that they have the answers to everything. It's never a very exact answer, if you press them, but always ends in some argument to authority, from an authority that's either also a midwit, or from some data they have completely misrepresented or misunderstood.
They alse tend to reduce everything to 2 dimentions (y is because of x), or 3 dimentions (if we do x right now then we will achieve y), while those smarter are mostly concerned with how systems work in motion, e.g. not "how do we achieve x", but how do we design a system that consistently produces results that trend the closest towards x.
My theory is that; 1) people above and below this midwit-range have more in common with eachother than either have to midwits. And 2) midwits have a lot in common with those who are low IQ (below the 90s).
(1)
People from about 90ish to 105ish are generally not coming up with grand theories of everything and are happy to admit that they don't know. They tend to be concerned with their lives, and have a commonsensic view of things.
People above are also not interested in such theories because they intuitively know that they don't know. They tend to be concerned with their professions or academic fields. Both groups engage with politics only enough to be left alone. This alliance does all the important work and create all the innovation.
(2)
The ones in the midwit range are convinced that they know what they're seeing in the metaphorical fog. Feeling the fog, and feeling that they need to make sense of it, causes anxiety. They study other midwits and build upon their midwittery. And they become obesessed with these grand narratives they're working on in tandem. This conviction makes them want to impose their reality upon everyone else as any opposition or critisism causes mental dissonance. They are natural activists. Their sense of rightousness trains them into becoming propagandists and manipulators. They are natural groupthinkers because their map of meaning consists of the opinions of others, where everything is intertextual and reality is subjective.
The low-IQ see even the everyday life of family, work and entertainment, and the simple systems in place to facilitate the everyday world, as part of the fog, which must be terrifying as in a fog everything is chaotic and complex and hard to grasp and thus frightening and a potential threat. As such they are very quick to take to theories that give meaning to the chaos they experience. Historically that's been religion, but more recently critical theories and thier favorite 'ism' has become a one answer explanation for everything.
This creates an alliance where the midwits knit togeher the framework that the stupes use to justify their actions and situations brought about by their inability to delay gratification and to plan for the future.
The groups intuitively understand each other. The first alliance is united by common sense and positivity born out of their "chop wood carry water" mentality, and a desire to be left alone to enjoy their life. They're ok with uncertainty and therefore they reject grand theories.
The second alliance is united by an underlying constant sense of fear, anxiety, and confusion. They are not ok with uncertainty, becuse more uncertaintly means more anxiety, and they are already at dysfunctional levels of anxiety. Therefore they retreat into delusions. The anxiety also compells them to force everyone to share their grand theories, because any challenge to the delusion is experienced as more anxiety.
Because they really are that stupid.
Think back to high school. Y'know the people who ran for student government? Remember how they were inevitably vapid idealists who didn't comprehend how pointless student government was?
Now fast forward. Y'know how all of us understand that the UN is a sock puppet theater?
That hasn't occurred to them.
I generally agree, but this part,
I'd say it was maybe 1/2 that and half people trying to build their resumé up for college applications. Maybe a distinction without a difference, though.
A narrative has been formed for them that fits nicely into their perception of themselves, and conveniently gives them an enemy to focus all their hatred on. It's really easy, they don't even need to think. The story that they believe is their opinion is confirmed everywhere. Mainstream news, government, late night comedy, social media, search engines, and many of the people in their surroundings who have been sold the same narrative. Even more convenient, all the news or opinions countering it has been removed.
All you need is a small percentage of zealots (I think the magic number is 15%) who will not compromise on anything. Then you need a group of at least 35% that just don't care enough about a particular issue to put up a fight. Once you have both of those, you get whatever the zealots want, no matter what the majority wants.
And this is why I keep pushing the idea that we must also be zealots.
Don't hire danger hairs. Don't help danger hairs. Hurt (in all non-rule2 ways) danger hairs at every opportunity.
Right now, going along with these freaks is the easy path. We must make that hard, so the morons who always take the easy road are forced to actually make a choice.
People who complain about extremism are either idealistic centrists who havent realized that they are fighting a losing battle or enemies.
I think it's lower than that, the numbers I saw were 3% to start the movement, 10% to sustain it, and 30% is critical mass.
the regressive left aren't humans, they are sensory organs attached to social media - the owners of which decide how the client bodies act
they can't go against the narrative any more than your finger can rebel when you go to pick your nose
This is the point I wanted to make- they are followers, not thinkers. They aren't doing anything for moral reasons; they screech other people's opinions and values because that's what's popular.
We are in the middle of a completely rampant, unchecked narcissism epidemic that has been ongoing for almost twenty years now. All the globalists had to do is tell the narcissists they can act smug over a new thing and no one was going to stop and consider the old thing or what has changed, all that matters is power and being a total fucking shitstain to your neighbors.
Because they are Demoralized.
They are literally completely oblivious to objective reality, and as such capable of holding 2 completely contradictory positions without even noticing.
Because the left doesn't have an ideology. They have a tribe and a will to power.
Because they ARE insects, Michael! - Bill Gates.
This it the regressive left's ideology. It was never about making things better or helping people, it was always making others suffer and be the slaves to their special snowflake selves.
Gaslighting, gatekeeping, shaming, tacit threats of exclusion, the usual. Keep them in the dark, and feed them shit. I would guess most leftists have no idea they're supporting real actual neo-nazis in Ukraine.
They do what they are told. When did reality ever bothered them?
I always knew that most people were unthinking sheep that will parrot every word a suit on TV says with complete, genuine belief.
But holy fuck, I did not grasp how deep that goes, and I did not grasp how broadly it applies, even to people with higher IQ's.
Having a high IQ doesnt make you wise or smart, it just means you can recognize patterns.
Twitter. Social media has melted the brains of the average boomer and normie millennials. They just weren’t built for the Internet
Because they have no thoughts.
By and large every self proclaimed socialist is actually just a larping parasite
Simple. The left has no beliefs, they are larping parasites.
What I'm curious about and unlikely to ever get answered is why are their optics so purposefully bad? Why openly display the black sun and swastika? What makes a man sign up for Azov Battalion but not ask "ok when are we overthrowing that kike in Kiev?" You know, beside the obvious answer that A30B is just junior varsity ISIS, controlled by the CIA, and never attacks jewish targets because their role is to help the United States do some globalist shit in the region. They appear to be useful idiots and regardless of whether Ukraine or Russia wins, they will be discarded after their usefulness is at an end. Much the way ISIS can be discarded at will.