Ideology
A game in the form of an IRL VR.
Created by Sociopaths, Clueless, Losers to organize society through broad-scale Coordination.
Works exactly as games do: orients you by giving you a simplified version of reality that tells you without any ambiguity what’s good, what’s bad, who you are, and what your purpose is.
The result of an Evolutionary search process. (Groups that chanced upon ideology as a means of coordination conquered those who didn’t.) in
E.g.: The “money game”, the “work game”, “Normalcy”, etc. (It is because money is a game that you can just print money, it is because jobs are a game that you can just print jobs [“bullshit jobs”], etc.)
E.g.: “You are a ea/rat/capitalist/proletarian, and what is good is to maximize utilons/qalys/shareholder value/proletariat revolutions”
Date
March 6, 2023
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Evil
Done by people who are very layered. To them life is ‘just a game’ Through and through inside an Ideology. They’re dissociated, not fully human, and
Disorientation
Defined negatively as the distinct state of lacking a clear orientation. It matters because it can be both natural or deliberately caused and
Syncing to Common Belief
The act of Syncing to Common Belief to common belief. What normies do, that makes them distinct and individualized as such. Why Normalcy is
Sociopaths, Clueless, Losers
Sociopath - someone to whom ideologies are empty and who crafts new ideologies Clueless - someone who’s subordinated to a particular Ideology Loser
Memetic warfare
Exploiting “People think in memes” and Fluency/Disfluency to recruit Clueless for an Ideology E.g.: political talking points, slogans
Media
A platform that spreads Ideology. Works because people don’t realize they’re fabricated, not a depiction of reality, and, like with VR, reflexively
Normalcy
The ‘highest abstraction’ Ideology in a society - who we are, what we are, what we’re about, what’s good, what’s bad, what we do. Through its