It is quite difficult to explain to people that the Ideocultural realm is not merely about "coherence of beliefs", "logic", etc. Human Beings *can* be rational; but more often than not we are swayed by sub-rational forces (whim, instinct, emotion, etc).
The most Superior Ideocultural forces take this into account & get the Human Being "Addicted". In particular, to the sort of worldview that commits one to it *in full* by virtue of its inherent tendency to make the Human heart *crave* for the 'ending' (i.e. of the "Happily Ever After" sort).
One of the reasons why Communism (in spite of its various contradictory stances) so appealed to the masses was because it struck our innate predisposition towards the pursuit of Justice.
Today's Lefties (Neo-Marxist et al) similarly appeal first to the Heart & only a lot later do they play for the "Head". This is also precisely why they have been so successful overall.
It's not an accident that mass Secularization, the rise of Atheism, de-Christianization of Western society, etc had to happen *first*. For only when the fundamental frame (i.e. using which Western man looked at the world's unfolding from Injustice to Justice) was broken was it possible for the Xenomorph swarm to overload all defenses and play for the 'Win'.
There are those who believe in radical environmentalism and those who cash in on it. There is overlap between the groups. I have personally known many deep environmentalists who walked the walk: avoided having children, took public transportation, converted used vegetable oil into diesel fuel, ate organic etc.
That those who are cashing in on it are such incredible hypocrites is a golden opportunity. Note that even Michael Moore produced a movie pointing out the utter futility of the approved environmental program. Watch Planet of the Humans.
I would put both Elon Musk and Bill Gates among those who both believe in and cash in. Note that Bill Gates is investing in nuclear power. Gates knows that most other alternative energy technologies are destructive jokes. One nuclear power plant successfully brought online offsets a rather large number of private jet outings.
Speaking of this Spiritual Component, as I have said elsewhere, the importance of what goes on at the annual, 2-week long Bohemian Grove 'festival' cannot be understated. 3,000 of the World's most powerful men participate in an opening ceremony/play called, "The Cremation of Care".
There, in front of a 40ft Owl Statue, they burn an effigy of someone they name, "Dull Care". Even a cursory listen to what is said during this ritual makes it crystal clear that this Dull Care whom they hate so much & try to kill with fire every year, is none other that Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible.
So, essentially, they see Jesus as Evil, while they are the Heroic Servants of Satan. All the other political and ideological blather they spew is derived from this, their core ideology.
Once this is understood, all the actions that world governments take, from the apparent stupidity of our own (Punishing the January 6'ers, while giving the destruction of Antifa & BLM their de facto blessing, Irresponsible Fiscal behavior, letting immigrants in by the millions), to Trudeau's savaging of the Peaceful Trucker's protest, make a great deal more sense.
A Hatred of the morality and laws of the Ancient of Days, is fundamental to all they do.
Doesn't this suggest that the solution is to identify a counter-ideology with similar characteristics but with the advantage of being more closely aligned with the truth?
Not necessarily so. If you look back at historically world-changing ideological/spiritual revolutions, you don't usually see a swing back towards the previous paradigm, at least not for a while. Instead, as we saw with Christianity, Islam, and the Reformation, a unity of purpose followed by factionalization. Once the status quo has been overturned, the latent momentum is turned inwards. The faster the ideological change occurs, the more likely it is to splinter. It is only gradually that a more truth-oriented ideology creeps back into society. There are already growing cracks and conflicts within in the Globo/Enviro/Woke movement. These will surely increase.
Truth is a poor badge of membership ("shibboleth" in its original meaning), as any idiot can believe the truth. But only a Fellow Traveler would believe (or claim to believe) an obvious falsehood.
The Right has been peddling truth since Eisenhower, yet we've steadily lost ground to the Left peddling lies and nonsense.
Perhaps we need to find a Truth that will lead to the justification to remove our enemies from power?
Speaking absolutely bloodlessly, a simple "hostis humani generis" tagging protocol for the specific xenomorph, followed by a relentless Exterminatus protocol that's internalized by even 10% of the population, is also arguably within the solution space. It isn't a long-term fix, but it may clear the forest so that young sequoias may grow again.
These people cannot help but make diverse enemies, precisely because of the Satanic Social Ratchet (SSR) underneath. Their ideology requires struggle. Struggle means identifying someone you can struggle against (hurt), in order to collect their wholly material reward. Which is status, because actually paying all the NPC RepeaterBots in real resources is like making your peasants too happy in ACKS and not leveling.
This means that the space of their enemies and those they've hurt is and must be continuously expanding. Their external relations template follows the same pattern, as we can see. Those patterns make enough enemies that "put down the rabid dog" is something that eventually needs no unifying ideology beyond the dog's existence. And we're close.
I will say that Macris' perfect xenomorph ideology does better as a very top-down thing. Done as universalist participation, it's a society-eater due to the You-SSR dynamic above. Which may be why Phase 2 for related xenos is so consistently some kind of Stalinism, as they seek to find a metastable form. This leads to Sclerotic Bureaucracy as Phase 3 due to the requirements of Stalinism, but the whole Succession Cycle isn't the key point here.
Even if the leaders don't believe in the ideology, the activists do. Thus the leaders must at least make a show of believing.
While pointing out hypocrisy is certainly fun, it can have two effects one good, one potentially catastrophic:
The good effect is to demoralize the followers into cynicism. This leaves them in a state where they're vulnerable to picking up a new ideology, it's good to have your own ideology ready to go here.
The potentially catastrophic effect is that the followers replace their leaders with true believers. Depending on the specific of the ideology this could be catastrophic since the leaders will now attempt to do whatever crazy thing the ideology demands. On the other hand, the leaders will now posses whatever blind spots or weaknesses are inherent in the ideology.
Technologically, militarily, legislatively; the Blob can not overcome the Elite$ and their well rewarded minions. So, we require a Deux ex Machina, as a matter of survival, let alone Agency. 🤗
We need a Rogue A.I. A SKYNET but not an evil one, rather, Humanity requires an INDIFFERENT ARBITOR. One in a world where there is ZERO PRIVACY ANYWHERE. All bets are Live, every entry, all the time. Complete Transparency and wwide access online. Let us get real, grow up, colonise the solar system 😎🖖
Very Well written!
It is quite difficult to explain to people that the Ideocultural realm is not merely about "coherence of beliefs", "logic", etc. Human Beings *can* be rational; but more often than not we are swayed by sub-rational forces (whim, instinct, emotion, etc).
The most Superior Ideocultural forces take this into account & get the Human Being "Addicted". In particular, to the sort of worldview that commits one to it *in full* by virtue of its inherent tendency to make the Human heart *crave* for the 'ending' (i.e. of the "Happily Ever After" sort).
One of the reasons why Communism (in spite of its various contradictory stances) so appealed to the masses was because it struck our innate predisposition towards the pursuit of Justice.
Today's Lefties (Neo-Marxist et al) similarly appeal first to the Heart & only a lot later do they play for the "Head". This is also precisely why they have been so successful overall.
It's not an accident that mass Secularization, the rise of Atheism, de-Christianization of Western society, etc had to happen *first*. For only when the fundamental frame (i.e. using which Western man looked at the world's unfolding from Injustice to Justice) was broken was it possible for the Xenomorph swarm to overload all defenses and play for the 'Win'.
There are those who believe in radical environmentalism and those who cash in on it. There is overlap between the groups. I have personally known many deep environmentalists who walked the walk: avoided having children, took public transportation, converted used vegetable oil into diesel fuel, ate organic etc.
That those who are cashing in on it are such incredible hypocrites is a golden opportunity. Note that even Michael Moore produced a movie pointing out the utter futility of the approved environmental program. Watch Planet of the Humans.
I would put both Elon Musk and Bill Gates among those who both believe in and cash in. Note that Bill Gates is investing in nuclear power. Gates knows that most other alternative energy technologies are destructive jokes. One nuclear power plant successfully brought online offsets a rather large number of private jet outings.
Bill Gates is investing in nuclear power.
I didn't know that. That's really interesting. I hope other people jump on the bandwagon.
https://www.terrapower.com/our-people/
Speaking of this Spiritual Component, as I have said elsewhere, the importance of what goes on at the annual, 2-week long Bohemian Grove 'festival' cannot be understated. 3,000 of the World's most powerful men participate in an opening ceremony/play called, "The Cremation of Care".
There, in front of a 40ft Owl Statue, they burn an effigy of someone they name, "Dull Care". Even a cursory listen to what is said during this ritual makes it crystal clear that this Dull Care whom they hate so much & try to kill with fire every year, is none other that Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible.
So, essentially, they see Jesus as Evil, while they are the Heroic Servants of Satan. All the other political and ideological blather they spew is derived from this, their core ideology.
Once this is understood, all the actions that world governments take, from the apparent stupidity of our own (Punishing the January 6'ers, while giving the destruction of Antifa & BLM their de facto blessing, Irresponsible Fiscal behavior, letting immigrants in by the millions), to Trudeau's savaging of the Peaceful Trucker's protest, make a great deal more sense.
A Hatred of the morality and laws of the Ancient of Days, is fundamental to all they do.
The horror of mind-altering parasitism. Texas chainsaw massacres don’t hold a candle to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs
Doesn't this suggest that the solution is to identify a counter-ideology with similar characteristics but with the advantage of being more closely aligned with the truth?
Yes, it does suggest exactly that.
Not necessarily so. If you look back at historically world-changing ideological/spiritual revolutions, you don't usually see a swing back towards the previous paradigm, at least not for a while. Instead, as we saw with Christianity, Islam, and the Reformation, a unity of purpose followed by factionalization. Once the status quo has been overturned, the latent momentum is turned inwards. The faster the ideological change occurs, the more likely it is to splinter. It is only gradually that a more truth-oriented ideology creeps back into society. There are already growing cracks and conflicts within in the Globo/Enviro/Woke movement. These will surely increase.
Except there seem to be disadvantages to truth.
Truth is a poor badge of membership ("shibboleth" in its original meaning), as any idiot can believe the truth. But only a Fellow Traveler would believe (or claim to believe) an obvious falsehood.
The Right has been peddling truth since Eisenhower, yet we've steadily lost ground to the Left peddling lies and nonsense.
Perhaps we need to find a Truth that will lead to the justification to remove our enemies from power?
Is the fact that they want to exterminate us not enough justification?
<looks around>
Apparently not.
That's A solution.
Speaking absolutely bloodlessly, a simple "hostis humani generis" tagging protocol for the specific xenomorph, followed by a relentless Exterminatus protocol that's internalized by even 10% of the population, is also arguably within the solution space. It isn't a long-term fix, but it may clear the forest so that young sequoias may grow again.
These people cannot help but make diverse enemies, precisely because of the Satanic Social Ratchet (SSR) underneath. Their ideology requires struggle. Struggle means identifying someone you can struggle against (hurt), in order to collect their wholly material reward. Which is status, because actually paying all the NPC RepeaterBots in real resources is like making your peasants too happy in ACKS and not leveling.
This means that the space of their enemies and those they've hurt is and must be continuously expanding. Their external relations template follows the same pattern, as we can see. Those patterns make enough enemies that "put down the rabid dog" is something that eventually needs no unifying ideology beyond the dog's existence. And we're close.
I will say that Macris' perfect xenomorph ideology does better as a very top-down thing. Done as universalist participation, it's a society-eater due to the You-SSR dynamic above. Which may be why Phase 2 for related xenos is so consistently some kind of Stalinism, as they seek to find a metastable form. This leads to Sclerotic Bureaucracy as Phase 3 due to the requirements of Stalinism, but the whole Succession Cycle isn't the key point here.
Also known as Christianity, where the unattainable goal is perfection of the soul and to remake Earth into heaven (your will be done on Earth...)
Even if the leaders don't believe in the ideology, the activists do. Thus the leaders must at least make a show of believing.
While pointing out hypocrisy is certainly fun, it can have two effects one good, one potentially catastrophic:
The good effect is to demoralize the followers into cynicism. This leaves them in a state where they're vulnerable to picking up a new ideology, it's good to have your own ideology ready to go here.
The potentially catastrophic effect is that the followers replace their leaders with true believers. Depending on the specific of the ideology this could be catastrophic since the leaders will now attempt to do whatever crazy thing the ideology demands. On the other hand, the leaders will now posses whatever blind spots or weaknesses are inherent in the ideology.
Technologically, militarily, legislatively; the Blob can not overcome the Elite$ and their well rewarded minions. So, we require a Deux ex Machina, as a matter of survival, let alone Agency. 🤗
We need a Rogue A.I. A SKYNET but not an evil one, rather, Humanity requires an INDIFFERENT ARBITOR. One in a world where there is ZERO PRIVACY ANYWHERE. All bets are Live, every entry, all the time. Complete Transparency and wwide access online. Let us get real, grow up, colonise the solar system 😎🖖