Another user has stated this similarly in the past in very succinct form. But it's worth repeating in these terms.
Rightist memes are effective because:
1. Borrowing fundamentals from standup comedy, they demonstrate realities about the world that are broadly understood -- at a surface level -- even by those who might be offended otherwise. 2. They exploit taboo. One theory of humor postulates that a critical element of comedic impact is employment of the unexpected conclusion. Nobody anticipates the violation of popular taboo as a conclusion (punchline). 3. For the former reasons, rightist memes can be communicated in the most simple terms, often using only a cartoon image and a few words.
In contrast, leftist memes are ineffective because:
1. They avoid commonly-understood realities and, instead, attempt to manipulate them prematurely. 2. They avoid taboo or, at worst, attempt to establish or reinforce taboo before it is broadly accepted. 3. They cannot be communicated in simple terms absent a years-long, carefully orchestrated effort to establish, popularize and use profrssional media and academic editorial sources to prepare the general public for receipt. This is due, at its core, to the preposterous artifice and inconsistency of leftist talking points.
I’d rather institutional power and complete control over the left like they do with this country instead of having funny memes. This stopped being funny years ago.
Lincoln Hill
Republicans are addicted to mainstream culture. But that is dying with TV. Memes are all they have left.
Austin Hughes
>I’d rather Yes, well. Even though the left cannot seem to learn many lessons from their past failures, we can learn and adapt. Fundamentally, this is because our ideology is in alignment with nature and theirs is not.
In summary: the mission they've set before themselves and the tactics they employ are doomed to failure.
Conversely, our disadvantage lies in our unwillingness to compromise on principle and make surgical use of social engineering. Because we are in a much better position to use this weaponry than they are, in addition to the rest of our arsenal advantage.
To make a chess analogy, the left has learned to play with only a king and two rows of pawns. But the right refuses to develop new strategies for controlling a board filled with enemy pawns.
Luis Flores
We've had a reversal. Boomer right are stick in the mud types and the Boomer left are free spirited hippie counter-culture. This created an association with the left and creativity.
This issue is nowadays the left are the stick in the mud ivory tower types and the right are counter-cultural autismophrenics. The new era of creativity comes from the right.
Ryder Clark
Bump! Based thread.
Evan Reed
You nailed it. There is more going on here though. Care to hear it?
Jayden Ramirez
Shoot, I'll read it.
Joshua Miller
Durr left control every institutions and lever of powers they don't need childish retarded memes
Look at any study comparing the IQs of conservatives vs the IQs of liberals
Lincoln Martinez
It's easy to think of the left and the right as two distinct, atomic things. But nobody should. On both sides of the *ideological* fight, there are three broad categories of actors... (more to come)
Dylan Carter
>leftists Are not really the left. They are the hypnotised and loving it thralls of the corporations if the richest people who ever existed. >the left is a game which NPC’s play encouraged by their hypnotists in media. But the entire left/right paradigm is a bit retarded and silly anyway.
Another divide exists in society, largely independent of ideology, constituting:
1. The "mob." The general public. Some 97-99% of everyone who is strictly capable of aligning themselves with perceived allies at whichever stage of life and society in which they find themselves. The mass media caters to this caste. 2. The "managerial class." People in positions of influence, command and control. Media personalities, industrial titans, prominent politicians, financiers, academics and cultural icons. The mass media also influences these people, but the third group puts a particular focus on guiding their activities through social engineering, bribery, blackmail and limited inclusion. 3. The third group is what I call the "cabal." These are multigenerational elites. People who have more than just a simple lifestyle to protect, or a simple ideology to promote. This includes maybe the most wealthy 2-3k families on Earth, who understand that the former two groups are not natural inheritors of Earth. They intend to defend their opulence and influence, but they are culturally steeped in privilege and purpose.
Anthony Perry
Once you internalize all of this, I think, you should naturally arrive at the conclusion that the leftist cabal and the rightist cabal are not so different. And they even make use of the ideological forces on both sides of the managerial class.
On Any Forums this sometimes referred to as the "uniparty."
But the most important takeaway is this. Our most powerful adversaries are not evil because of their disdain for the mob, or their lack of ideological alliance.
They are evil because they're guiding humanity toward a dead-end path; toward a future Earth that is nothing more than a permanent beach vacation for a small number of people who, ulimitately, owing to their multigenerational opulence, are incapable of pursuing meaningful goals for humanity.
These people will turn humanity into a sloth-like, Earthbound, useless civilization. And they mostly make use of the leftist mob and managerial class to guide it there.
Adam Garcia
As members of the mob and managerial class, we must set aside our Earthly concerns to an extent. We must develop a larger purpose for ourselves, and organize to achieve it.
I think you're describing the modern iteration of the cabal well. My theory is that the cabal came from the "shamans" of antiquity. The purpose of shamans were to provide meaning and purpose to the "mob" and the "managerial class". Over time, humanity grew to more complex civilizations, and the managerial class became government and business, while the shaman class split off into organized religion and the occult.
Over time, the most powerful of the managerial class intermixed with the heads of the religious class, and formed secret societies based on shamanistic principles. Over time, this "guiding light" (illumination) strayed away from service to God, and became degenerated and intermixed with the occult. In modern times, the offspring of the God fearing elite, have turned to secular "hidden knowledge" beliefs, and chose to kill God publicly (anti-shamanism). By killing God, they seek to replace spiritual purpose with purpose that serves their ultimate end, either to fulfil their schizoid occult fantasies, or as you say, a secular hedonistic lifestyle.
In short, yes, finding a new purpose for the mob that doesn't serve the incestious, festering mob caste is the way to truly win.
...I don't know what this has to do with left/right comedy dichotomy though.
Jason Carter
festering cabal class*
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