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8 years ago
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My friend's ex-wife has surrounded herself with increasingly abusive and manipulative people (according to her Facebook posts) as she has increasingly internalized the ideology that is supposed to "fight" that sort of thing (based on the language used in her Facebook posts).
Which is to say, advertising one's distaste for scum actually attracts scum.
Within an ideological framework, this statement would be interpreted as an ad-hominem, placing the blame upon my friend's ex-wife for the quality of her environment, which is a brilliant but tremendous feat of over-simplification which serves the ideology, not my friend's ex-wife's interests.
Because she in fact did exactly what she should do, according to the ideology. Which encourages validating and engaging with scum as a way to rid oneself of scummy company.
The blame for the failure of this does not rest upon the individual (my friend's ex-wife), but upon the ideology itself. This is a notion which exists outside of the ideology's dialectic.
She went towards the open arms of a culture that promises empowerment and implies healing, only to be conscripted by it to fight on the front lines of social identity-based combat against the very thing she was trying to escape, to the detriment of her well-being.
This is why I find Facebook's Newsfeed update decision, to take the bullhorns away from the "influencers" of social media, who have been dispensing with ideological venom without accountability for years, to be extremely beneficial.
I like the fact that since the FB Newsfeed change, I can now post something genuinely weird and funny and not be drowned-out by some dumbass posting noxiously political, segregationist, reactionary image macro garbage. My objective in posting on FB is to share laughter. Instead of imprecisely dispensing guilt and pain onto others in order to alienate or recruit them.
If this makes me a villain (a minor one) in the framework of ideology (since "if you're not _____ then you're _____"), then I'm indeed a heretical monster.
Which is to say, advertising one's distaste for scum actually attracts scum.
Within an ideological framework, this statement would be interpreted as an ad-hominem, placing the blame upon my friend's ex-wife for the quality of her environment, which is a brilliant but tremendous feat of over-simplification which serves the ideology, not my friend's ex-wife's interests.
Because she in fact did exactly what she should do, according to the ideology. Which encourages validating and engaging with scum as a way to rid oneself of scummy company.
The blame for the failure of this does not rest upon the individual (my friend's ex-wife), but upon the ideology itself. This is a notion which exists outside of the ideology's dialectic.
She went towards the open arms of a culture that promises empowerment and implies healing, only to be conscripted by it to fight on the front lines of social identity-based combat against the very thing she was trying to escape, to the detriment of her well-being.
This is why I find Facebook's Newsfeed update decision, to take the bullhorns away from the "influencers" of social media, who have been dispensing with ideological venom without accountability for years, to be extremely beneficial.
I like the fact that since the FB Newsfeed change, I can now post something genuinely weird and funny and not be drowned-out by some dumbass posting noxiously political, segregationist, reactionary image macro garbage. My objective in posting on FB is to share laughter. Instead of imprecisely dispensing guilt and pain onto others in order to alienate or recruit them.
If this makes me a villain (a minor one) in the framework of ideology (since "if you're not _____ then you're _____"), then I'm indeed a heretical monster.
Like, you invite a vulture, you either give it something to peck at, or it's going to peck you instead if you lie down for too long.
This is the type of person who adopts a vulture and then is mad when she wakes up and it's nibbling at her toes.
"Jackal" could also work here if you prefer mammalian analogy.
Basically any carrion-eating animal, since "dead inside" seems perfectly analogous to how much stench is in their corpse gas posts.