Quote: (02-05-2016 01:50 PM)Wutang Wrote:
Quote: (02-05-2016 12:01 PM)El Chinito loco Wrote:
The last few years you've seen feminist groups and individual feminists working inside the media to unscrupulously connect everyone in the manosphere to psychos like Elliot Rodger. Besides outright misrepresentation of facts they are all for mob (in)justice and destroying people on a completely false whim.
Today's social progressives are adopting the same tactics of the social conservatives of the 80s and 90s. Remember how these people would take some tasteless R-rated music album, movie, video game, or other media and point out how it's somehow corrupting the minds of innocent children and was turning them into future murderers and criminals? It's the old "think of the children!" shrieking now repackaged as "think of the women!"
In the past if someone pointed out these moral crusaders were being shrill and over the top then the response would be "So you don't care if your child grows up to become a rapist?" They take a concept that most people would treasure - in this case the innocence of children and then somehow frame it as you being against it which serves to bring down a mob on you composed of people who just immediately thought "this guy must be anti-children!" instead of thinking things through. We're seeing the same thing happen now only with rape. Pretty much everyone finds rape abhorrent so when dozens of media articles all pop up the same time saying "Roosh is pro-rape" then people immediately associate rape with his name which causes their high reasoning functions to be bypassed and them to resort to relying on instinct and emotions. That's way less mentally taxing then actually having to read through Roosh's article and having to figure the point he was trying to make since that would have to require having to think things through as opposed to taking everything at face value.
Wutang is "bang on." This is the sad part of human nature. With modern mass control of the media, it is relatively easy to whip up the mob regarding the newest moral panic. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s There was a similar moral panic to topics like:
- Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Satanic rituals and young people using "ouija" boards
- Violent video games like "Doom"
- Young people smoking marijuana and then the transition to heroin
- etc
Eric Hoffer also offers some perspective on this. Reference his 1951 book "
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" - page 91.
..."Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents. It pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his weal and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking. He becomes an anonymous particle quivering with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass. Heine suggests that what Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil...
page 94
...Whence come these unreasonable hatreds, and why their unifying effect? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt, and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt to here transmuted into hatred of others - and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch. Obviously, the most effective way of doing this is to find others, as many as possible, who hate as we do. here more than anywhere else we need general consent, and much of our proselytizing consists perhaps in infecting others not with our brand of faith but with our particular brand of unreasonable hatred.
To further your understanding of the "sjw hive mind"... this book is highly recommended. Reagan even awarded Hoffer the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.