Why do the most obnoxious people always assume their opinions represent everyone around them?
Bolshevik means majority and Menshevik means minority, but the Bolsheviks were always the minority. Everytime someone successfully excercises power over another by claiming the majority, he gets a confirmation that he is expressing the general will, in the Rousseauian sense, and, of course, a successful tactic will be reused. It's a rhetorical trick that causes a self-reinforcing feedback loop resulting in delusion.
You know, it just struck me that some faggot on reddit would probably reply with something vapid, like, "uh... I understood some of those words, yes." And get a trillion up-poops. Meanwhile, around these parts it's just the average level of discourse. And you're spot-on. That's why the mockingbird press is so effective at what they do: they psychologically reinforce the skewed perception that they speak for a majority which in reality does not exist.
And we're the idiots. No wonder they're so easily manipulated. Their entire lives consist of consooming products, drugs and masturbation; they can only vaguely fathom anything beyond that.
It doesn't matter who is in the majority among our peers anyway. Peasants don't matter. It only matters what is believed by those in positions of power: academia, media, technology, finance, military, and the entrenched bureaucracy.
Bolshevik means majority and Menshevik means minority, but the Bolsheviks were always the minority. Everytime someone successfully excercises power over another by claiming the majority, he gets a confirmation that he is expressing the general will, in the Rousseauian sense, and, of course, a successful tactic will be reused. It's a rhetorical trick that causes a self-reinforcing feedback loop resulting in delusion.
You know, it just struck me that some faggot on reddit would probably reply with something vapid, like, "uh... I understood some of those words, yes." And get a trillion up-poops. Meanwhile, around these parts it's just the average level of discourse. And you're spot-on. That's why the mockingbird press is so effective at what they do: they psychologically reinforce the skewed perception that they speak for a majority which in reality does not exist.
And we're the idiots. No wonder they're so easily manipulated. Their entire lives consist of consooming products, drugs and masturbation; they can only vaguely fathom anything beyond that.
It doesn't matter who is in the majority among our peers anyway. Peasants don't matter. It only matters what is believed by those in positions of power: academia, media, technology, finance, military, and the entrenched bureaucracy.