Quite curious, referring to what I wrote not long ago.
I just mentioned how there are contextual exceptions to the “rising tide of right-wing political power”, like the UK. And American conservatives (lead by Elon Musk propaganda machine) have launched one of the strongest attacks on UK politics.
The point is that it has nothing to do with American politics, the explicit intention is world wide power and control, the fascist regime in our future.
I still believe what I wrote there. You can’t stop this mounting wave with bare hands. I believe these timid attempts at resisting this fascist destruction will be unsuccessful, because that fascist destruction is embedded in our evolution as human beings.
On the merits of online censorship I don’t like what’s happening. Either way. It’s not possible to trust the controllers, the only solution is better rules. Of course all the politics and propaganda do is worrying about WHO seizes power, not how to regulate and use that power. It’s the exact same problem of the “war on truth” that Elon Musk is waging: what’s important is not the “ontology” of the world (WHAT is true, WHAT is false), but the “epistemology” of humanity (HOW we collectively decide what is true and what is false, the process we use to arrive at truth).
This is a war we have already collectively lost, and the price we’ll pay.
It’s something quite useful even in practice. Stop worrying about what is true, stop trying hard to convince others about what you BELIEVE. If you meet some deep conspiracy theorist, even flat earthers. Don’t focus your attention on WHAT they believe, but WHY they believe so. What is that lead them to those certainties. Because they are also just slaves to ideas that pin them immobile.
Until we continue to think about WHO seizes power, we continue only to prepare the way for those fascists. And what will happen when THEY have that control and that power.
Rules cannot be “reversible”, where a group simply seizes control and turns those rules as a weapon against the other party. Rules need to be impersonal and strict. As it happens with truth, once we agree on the process on how we seek it, then we do not need worry about what is true. Because if the process is valid then the destination is always the same. It can be trusted to be always correct. To be better.
COVID has taught its lesson, we simply ignored it. You can say “vaccines are safe”, or “vaccines are dangerous”, or even deadly. Whatever. The problem here, again, is not WHAT is true. The problem is that these statements are REVERSIBLE. Do you understand? A group will say vaccines are safe, the other group will say “they” are trying to kill us. These “truths” are reversible.
In the current American conservatives rhetoric, they are waging a war against the ESTABLISHMENT. Against a mirror fascist kingdom of bankers, Disney, Google, Democrats, the media, Hollywood, WEF, Soros, Bill Gates and so on. Trump is fighting against the establishment. Biden has been a puppet on strings, under the control of greater hidden powers. They are always victims fighting for freedom. THEY ARE THE RESISTANCE.
Why?
WHY?
Because “the resistance” is fucking REVERSIBLE.
“Good vs Evil” is a reversible concept, therefore completely useless. It can never be a valid motive. If we want TRUTH, we need RULES, not reversible abstractions.
The now very popular “racism about white people” is the result of yet another reversible concept. Same as the Elon-mispelled #TwoTeirKeir: why aren’t white people being protected? Why protect only the muslims? Reversibility is probably the most used tool in right-wing rhetoric right now.
I don’t want to be that guy, but reality and truth AREN’T FUCKING REVERSIBLE. They just are. Immune to wishes and desires.
That’s why to reply that message I tried the only valid way: why don’t you go asking Alan Moore what he thinks about his work being used for that propaganda? Because I know Alan Moore, and his actual politics, fairly enough to deduce with a reasonable amount of certainty he doesn’t agree with that message… “Death of the author” notwithstanding, that’s quite evidently a perverse manipulation of those works. Because on the surface, to someone who never actually read V for Vendetta, those concepts are reversible.
If your whole argument about COVID and vaccines is about an appeal to authority, then you’ve FAILED. Because the authority CAN’T BE TRUSTED. Appeal to authority is a fallacy and, to stay in theme, it is NOT a valid process to seek truth. The truth around COVID was easily reversible, and that’s what happened. It was seized and reversed. The appeal to authority is an heuristics, and it is valid and practical within that specific context. A very limited application that you can use when you are aware of what it actually is.
That’s why it failed, because the PROCESS of seeking truth during the times of COVID was deeply WRONG. And what you’ve done there? You paved the way for that disinformation, spreading like wildfire, paved the way for those actual fascists that now know how to use those strategies. When they’ll wage wars against YOU, rather than a virus. Against your culture, your race, your sexuality. You have given them the weapons they will use against you.
If you want to regulate freedom of speech, because, obviously, defamation and hate speech aren’t part of freedom of speech (technically there are issues of recursion and self reference, if you want to study the problem formally), then the important point is that those rules cannot be reversible.
You need to make rules thinking ahead, understanding how those rules will be used when you aren’t anymore in control. You need to defuse that bomb so that it can never be used.
Meanwhile, I continue to read Elon Musk as an insight on how corrupt a mind can be. I don’t have an obsession, or hate the man. I hate the symbol he fashioned himself into. I hate those wild attempts at seizing control of the “truth.”