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.