Extreme sanity is the only viable response to the increasing insanity of Clown World. The crazier they get, the most important it is that we stay ruthlessly and relentlessly in touch with the truth and the Truth.
We’ve always had the ability to spread bullshit within our cultures: infection of the mind by contagious nonsense parasites is the primary failure mode opened by the evolution of grammar, rendering the human mind uniquely vulnerable to memetic attack. Every avenue of information transfer is also an attack surface; this is why there is no such thing as a secure device on the Internet. There are many examples in history of mass hysterias leading to mass destruction and mass death. But we’ve never before had the media technologies that developed during the long twentieth century, which enable us to wall our minds off entirely from the real world, filtering every perception through the demonic portals of the black mirrors we surround ourselves with.
Eventually, the unstable construct of distortions and outright falsehoods that liberalism is based upon is destined to disappear into a shrieking howl of distorted static, and it will take the minds of its adherents with it. That is not necessarily a metaphor – the brains hooked into that model will essentially have their wiring undone, because this is just what happens when a neural network is forced to ingest an information diet consisting solely of incoherent contradictions. It will cause actual brain damage; indeed we already see this happening.
We already know what the answer will be. Crusade followed by Inquisition. Fortunately, the memelords have already illustrated the path for us. What does truth have in common with demonic madness of the sort described? Absolutely nothing.
Source post that Vox used by John Carter. Well worth reading.
The Involution of the Liberal Mind
Paul Jackson
That was one helluva read. Thank you for tracking that down and posting.