Saturday, February 23, 2019

Map of MAGA Country

Still slogging my way through the archive. This is from an old post:

But with the gradually increasing materialization and quantification of our culture over the past several centuries, it is very much the case that our exterior maps are more detailed than ever, even while the interior ones have become sketchy and impoverished at best.

I say "at best" because when a map loses its features, it becomes a kind of canvas for the psyche to project upon. Prior to the development of systematic scientific discovery -- the discovery of discovery -- the situation was the reverse, in that our exterior maps were vehicles of psychic projection. People projected all sorts of mind parasites in the form of mythical beasts beyond the boundaries of the known world. It is similar to how liberals imagine that anyone outside their familiar territory is a greedy, racist, and homophobic monster, as seen below in the depiction of Trump supporters swimming beyond the shores of academia and the MSM:

When the progressive condemns, every intelligent man must feel alluded to. --NGD

I was also thinking of how in a shame culture, you'll see a lot of fake honor; in a guilt culture, fake innocence; and in a victim culture, fake oppression and hate crime hoaxes. When victimhood is incentivized -- itself a crypto-religious secular perversion of "the meek shall inherit the earth" -- it results in a literal race to the bottom, such that the scum rises to the top.

7 comments:

julie said...

When the progressive condemns, every intelligent man must feel alluded to.

Yep. As ever, the lies of a leftist serve to indict the entirety of those on the right. Thus in Jussie's imagination, it makes perfect sense that a couple of white men in MAGA hats shouting about MAGA country would be roaming the streets at 2 AM in sub-zero temps, carrying a noose and a bottle of bleach just in case they ran into some random gay black man. To a leftist, this is typical MAGA behavior. Even if it required paying off a couple of Nigerians (doing the jobs Americans won't do) to play the part of attackers. They can easily imagine the Covington kids in that role, so in their minds it's basically real; any Trump voter is as likely to be guilty.

Gagdad Bob said...

Partial list of necessary orthoparadoxes:

--There is only a Way because we cannot get there. If we could, there would be no Way to get there.
--Things are only knowable in part because they are unknowable in full.
--It is only possible to affirm the non-existence of God in a cosmos he created.
--If we could completely know God, then he couldn't exist, but if God didn't completely know us, then we couldn't.
--We can know things because they exist, but they can only exist because they are known.

ted said...

If you want to get a taste of how far intersectionality has gone on a liberal college campus, this is eye opening: Part 1, Part 2.

Anonymous said...

As one of those progressives (of the old school variety) I see MAGA cap guys the way I see my aging old childhood friends from my former Midwestern town. Back when we were kids, all the great stuff was being done in America. Best airplanes, dams, tallest buildings, best music, best art... you name it. And everybody around me was a Christian. Today my beloved high school, which was back then brand new with mostly whites but some minorities too, is almost all black and Hispanic. But they still watch the same old blonde Viking mascot dancing about egging on the football crowd. And all the best stuff is being done in places like sharialand Dubai and athiest-ommunistland Beijing. My friends know that something... has happened to America. But they don't quite know what. So they wear their MAGA caps hoping for the best.

julie said...

Hoping for the best, yes, but also for many it's an act of defiance. For all the fake hate crimes out there against supposedly oppressed minorities, the ones that turn out to be real tend overwhelmingly to be against exactly those MAGA hat wearers who are otherwise just trying to get through the day. Even so, they are not asking to be attacked, they want to show they are not cowed into submission. Not yet.

I'd bet your friends have a pretty good idea of what has happened. It's just that at the level of ordinary people just trying to live their lives, there's very little we can do about it, other than express some support for the people who offer up a shred of hope.

Gagdad Bob said...

Goto!

Anonymous said...

I would just keep it simple, Julie. There are racist MAGA hat wearers, drawn to what they’re perceiving as a white power base, but they're a minority which does not represent the whole. The other team then cherry picks events to make them appear to represent the whole. And so on back and forth.

Back in better days, I remember American Christians also being on ‘teams’, but they generally tolerated fans of other teams because “there but for the grace of God go I”. Today, I believe citizens have been intentionally herded into opposing 'teams' to waste energies battling each other while Powers That Be (or The Deep State... or whatever your term/perception for swamp elites may be) go unchecked. I saw that strategy used a lot on a smaller scale in my days dealing with corporate climber players to FUD up more ethical competitors.

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