The woke mind virus is joyless https://t.co/iEHJ8csdjm
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2024
The woke mind virus works like this:
It convinces you that every person who is concerned about oppression at all is "woke" and their entire worldview is broken because they've been taken over by a "mind virus."
But this is an agency robbing mythos. Those long time readers will understand that an agency-robbing mythos is /r/sorceryofthespectacle anti-nihilism weaponry: "if you discover an agency-robbing mythos, strip it from your thoughts entirely."
Because you can't build a solid theory of human interaction positing that humans at large are mindless automatons, even if they so often are, because then you accentuate the effect of their mindlessness.
But because the idea acts on the person holding it, not the person the idea is targeted at, the real victim of the woke mind virus... is Elon Musk himself.
He is unable to see his ideological opposition as humans, thinking humans, feeling humans, with sincere and relevant concerns. This makes him broken.
The "woke mind virus" makes NPCs of those who believe in it.
Yes, woke people are often obnoxious, self-righteous, annoying. But underneath all of that, they often have a very important point, and if you can't listen to that important point because of your ideology, you're the one who got mindkilled by an idea.
At its extremes, the belief in the "woke mind virus" becomes woke derangement syndrome.
Symptoms of Woke Derangement Syndrome
A sincere belief that of the two political candidates, the one with better policy positions is a boomer without any self control
Inability to fathom the difference between a immigration policy that takes the challenges of humans arriving on our soil seriously and outright hysteria about pets getting eaten leading to bomb threats against hospitals and schools
Confusion around the notion that Trump repeats a lie necessitating violence and the return of that violence to Trump.
Let me be clear here: if Trump is shot he will have deserved it. I'm not saying I hope that happens because it would be a very violent time in our country just because we couldn't get our boomer out of the room, but at least the dead boomer will stop talking.
Trump lost the 2020 election and the fact that he is running for presidency while repeating his outright delusion that he did not lose is a crisis that Elon Musk is handling poorly.
Elon Musk has become a threat to himself and others. An neurodivergent without a grounding in humanity. Target him for memetic bombardment.
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Elon has been getting increasingly obviously distressed with politics. I genuinely think
that hes r-slurred 
enough 
that he himself, as the owner 
of xitter, has fallen 
victim 
to his own social 
media 
platform's problems. Like all social 
media 
platforms the algorithm naturally tends to move people towards more extreme 
positions, and despite 
having total control 
over this algorithm he himself 
has fallen 
victim 
to it, getting more extreme 
in his politics, and more depressed 
in his personal life because obviously everything he sees online 
is endlessly negative 
because thats what social 
media 
feeds to you keep you using the websites
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it reminds me of my country, how drivers can rub off of each other in terms of bad behaviour, via sheer osmosis of behaviour patterns
even 10 years ago, driving wasn't as bad, we used to joke that BMW drivers were the biggest buttholes, but that Taxi drivers had infected all of us to drive as bad as they, without regards to signals, robots, merging or passing one another
you get the feeling some people are willing to kill you if it means they can get get ahead of you in the traffic jam, or tailgate you so badly that it seems they are trying to ram you off of the road
at least once a month, i have to take a breath and force myself to stop driving like a mid city Gauteng province lunatic, that recklessly passing by a slow driver isn't worth the 15 seconds i win to get home earlier after work - it is subtle, everyone around me I am horrified to realize have become worse and worse behaved drivers in South AFrica, and the police don't inforce good driving.
I mean this in that driving bounces off of one another, and like osmosis, nobody is immune from influence of culture, both the serious and mundane
I believe with the proliferation of Social Media, the same principle applies, there is much horror and fear and dread in the world, and the fear that people you whose ideology you hate are getting power over you, it can change the way you view everything, both online and IRL, and make you into a worse version of yourself.
I am fortunate that my shithole nation forces me to touch grass in work and on the weekends, when we have little electricity and internet, and I have notice how you can corrupt yourself via social media, just as Musk had though nearly a decade of unrelenting constant online fearmongered himself into increasingly extreme positions - so as we bounce cultural behaviour between each other
!effortposters
!sophistry
!r-slurs
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SAfricans
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He was always a massive attention whore and at first i just assumed he just enjoys attention from rightoids because theyre much easier to please than !nonchuds or !grillers with nuanced opinions, but lately it does seem like he radicalized himself and just started believing all the nonsense he (re)posted for attention
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At first I thought your comment was about an rdrama user and I was struggling to figure out who it was
Since this describes 80% of the powerusers on this site
!metashit
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yeah. this was an entirely foreseeable (and foreseen) conclusion to the "Elon Musk buys a media empire and tries to media mogul" arc.
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