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It is unusual how entry to data has sped up the self-education of most of the people to some extent the place I feel it’s turning into an issue for the ruling class. Possibly that is why they’re turning into insane and attempting to make the general public discourse so insane. Let’s discuss.
My uncle is an old-school conspiracy theorist; he toiled away breaking coal with a pickaxe searching for diamonds in comparison with how spoiled we are actually. An clever man, former Military Ranger turned long-haul trucker. Self-educated, an autodidact sort of man; the “anon profile”.
He was consistently gobbling up data within the pre-internet period. He is mainly my subject material knowledgeable on faucet for something to do with the trilateral fee or militia motion stuff from the ’90s; he is my man. However studying these items was so laborious again then.
Having to fulfill individuals in particular person and settle for data from them, like at gun reveals and many others. Studying books you needed to go purchase or bodily take a look at, as a result of e-books did not exist and neither did the web (or what did exist, there wasn’t a lot anyway).
He stuffed the remainder of the hole with discuss radio and CB radio with different truckers. It is fascinating how truckers are both dumb as bricks or are wandering sages with astronomical IQ. They’re really each ends of the bell curve, very similar to Fight Arms within the army.
My foremost level I wished to handle, and different 30-something or 40-something anons can attest, is that entry to data strikes so quick and has change into so easy that persons are happening the data waterslide at breakneck speeds.
It was once that you just have been a normie, and sooner or later you bought activated into some sort of “alternate” political or perception “tunnel” that was gatekept however a bit off the crushed path. Possibly you grew to become a libertarian and even had a Marxist part or one thing.
Ultimately, that stopped being sufficient, possibly you grew to become extra of a typically conservative sort, then a RW sort, then extra of an esoteric sort when you get in there good and deep. However this was once a course of that took a decade or extra.
I am seeing zoomers go from lolberts who have been shopping for Hawaiian shirts and larping concerning the “boog” two years in the past who are actually studying esoteric and political concept books. 4 years in the past they have been fairly near normie, and now they’re studying Evola and Uncle Ted materials.
That is additionally bleeding over into the true world in a really significant approach. @MogTheUrbanite was speaking earlier about how dudes at his church are simply overtly speaking about Klaus Schwab/WEF/Nice Reset shit and demons, out within the open, in a non-conspiratorial matter of reality approach.
Younglings won’t admire how totally important that’s. I gained political consciousness in an space the place most individuals simply thought George Soros was a hedge fund supervisor and when you stated the identify “Rothschild” or “Soros”, individuals referred to as you some tinfoil anti-Semite crank.
For instance, that reside clip of Newt Gingrich actually getting yanked mid-interview for speaking conspiratorially about Soros. This wasn’t even that way back, however sufficient individuals knew by then.
Now, it is only a family reality. That is one thing that could be a main change when noticed in a decade-long timescale. This can be a massive fucking change to the established order. Data accessibility has, from the POV of conventional gatekeepers, utterly spun out of their management.
That is why suppression of conspiratorial nodes has, for probably the most half, capitulated. In digital warfare phrases, the enemy has switched from jamming the precise frequency their enemy is utilizing to simply jamming *all* frequencies with white noise. Simply lunacy throughout the board.
I feel that is most simply observable on the chans and particularly /pol/. Reddit had central factors of moderation they might simply management. Conde Nast executives on the strategic stage and subreddit moderators on the tactical stage. They have been straightforward.
However 4chan was one other beast. There is no “karma” and there is no “downvotes” and with everybody posting anonymously, you’ll be able to’t simply ban the accounts that different individuals maintain in excessive regard and change them with your individual. It is “pissing in an ocean of piss”, as we used to say.
What actually did the positioning in, and possibly prices the powers that be a fairly penny, is simply fixed info-ops, trolling, board sliding, and silly BBC threads. However making 4chan suck did what anons all the time stated it could do, which is drive us off our containment web site.
The chans basically fell on the sword and misplaced their hermeticism that permit deep autistic dialogue and ops happen, which was a fantastic loss for positive, however in doing so the “anon actuality tunnel” broke the guardrails and went off-road, in each single course, integrating with others.
It was like there was a large, harmful cyst that was inflicting issues for the host, so that they popped it and infectious frogposters burst out in each course. Protecting the partitions, the home windows, the door, only a massive nasty mess that they can not clear up or put again within the field.
Now we have zoomers speedrunning political concept that millennial anons pioneered by an expertise that took nearly a decade. 22-year-olds Kaczynski posting and chuckling with their pals with area of interest in-jokes about lengthy lifeless philosophers and historic rites. Lovely.
I simply need individuals who assume resisting the regime is “transferring too slowly” to understand how a lot has modified within the final 25 or so years due to the web. Particularly for the zoomers who simply have not been round lengthy sufficient to see it; it’s loopy.
Within the mid ’00s, not many individuals owned ARs or some other semi-automatic rifles, only a few individuals casually owned physique armor or evening imaginative and prescient, and nearly nobody was coaching to gunfight as an informal passion. We have been all arguing “Is the Iraq Warfare actually crucial or one other cynical oil play”?
That was the extent of discourse then, “Is that this new warfare crucial? Do muslims actually need to destroy us? How a lot cash is that this gonna price?” and arguments over the PATRIOT Act have been akin to at this time’s skinny blue line cult arguing with the individuals who need you canceled now.
Now the complete nation is overtly questioning, by one aspect or one other, the legitimacy of varied appendages of the federal government. The libs on the left are actually calling SCOTUS illegitimate, whereas most on the correct are calling 2020 illegitimate and that congress is outright corrupt.
Even when the world bought a hell of much more clown-y typically, most of the people is like 4 occasions as knowledgeable now as they have been again then. It makes my head spin to actually give it some thought. I see random contacts from IRL on my cellphone popping up with “Welcome them to Sign/Telegram!” 24/7.
My nice aunt reads The Epoch Instances, my spouse talks about demons, my nice grandma who’s 91 thinks we’re heading for Weimar Germany, the 22-year-old who mounted {an electrical} situation on my range casually talked to me about adrenochrome ffs.
There may be a lot consciousness now in comparison with how there was once nearly none. There is no such factor as “fringe” anymore, you’ll be able to solely be cringe. The world is fucking loopy and something is feasible.
That is nice as a result of you’ll be able to’t resolve an issue individuals do not know exists.
There isn’t any conquering this ideological battlespace for the regime. Conquering it *all* like they did within the days of TV and Radio is simply too goddamn costly. It is all cut up up into one million totally different ideological fiefs. At nice price, you’ll be able to conquer a fief, however not all of them.
So that they hearth out digital chaff frantically in each course, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes which might be or might be threats. The enemy is now reactively defending themselves, not proactively steering the course. That is the Titanic and we’re the iceberg.
Each time they pop chaff within the type of a brand new psy-op, sample recognition kicks in and fewer individuals fall for it; lots of people recuperate and cease being fooled quicker and fewer individuals fall for the subsequent one.
They’re basically caught in a sheared reactive OODA loop that they are not keen to get out of, a death-spiral of hubris and the crows are coming dwelling to roost.
They simply fucked up so dangerous ruining the chans, it is like they exiled a bunch of web inexperienced berets to each neighboring nation to coach proxy forces. So right here we’re.
If 9/11 occurred at this time, what number of People would query it and what number of would implicate our authorities on day one?
Repeat that to your self two or thrice; that is how a lot has modified.
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