Against following the herd
Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:06 pm
Natural instincts suggest we should listen to the "group". The biggest of which is Society.
With Trump's rise, we've seen pedophobia go mainstream- the majority of Americans subscribe to it, and perhaps half the world itself.
Even on the left, liberal antis see pedophobia as the last permissible outlet for their penchant to judge and degrade others. (That's a hallmark of bourgeois culture, and functions independent of political orientation).
The problem is that the "group" fills your head with drivel. For example, they've actually convinced a lot of MAPs that "MAP liberation", "identity politics" and "self-interest" are bad, when they are just the conceptualisation of MAPs' self-consciousness.
If multiple people are saying it in America or any other pedophobic country, it's almost assuredly wrong. These are self-interested talking points from the anti majority.
Get in the habit of disagreeing and assuming what others say is wrong. If the majority supports it, ascribe no further value to it. Antis depend on the human instinct in all of us to acquiesce to the group - and impute meaning to that which has social proof. Our survival depends on identifying what's right for MAPs, and that only happens when we avoid the trap of heeding group sentiment - which today is right-wing thinly-veiled pedo “hunter” propaganda or liberal-centrist anti over-protectionism.
Antis can afford to be conformist and aligned with their own interests; in contrast, we as MAPs have no choice but to be distrustful of society and delight in disagreeing and contradicting, for there is no home within the mainstream parts of the political spectrum, not even the fringes that are closer to the mainstream than us.
With Trump's rise, we've seen pedophobia go mainstream- the majority of Americans subscribe to it, and perhaps half the world itself.
Even on the left, liberal antis see pedophobia as the last permissible outlet for their penchant to judge and degrade others. (That's a hallmark of bourgeois culture, and functions independent of political orientation).
The problem is that the "group" fills your head with drivel. For example, they've actually convinced a lot of MAPs that "MAP liberation", "identity politics" and "self-interest" are bad, when they are just the conceptualisation of MAPs' self-consciousness.
If multiple people are saying it in America or any other pedophobic country, it's almost assuredly wrong. These are self-interested talking points from the anti majority.
Get in the habit of disagreeing and assuming what others say is wrong. If the majority supports it, ascribe no further value to it. Antis depend on the human instinct in all of us to acquiesce to the group - and impute meaning to that which has social proof. Our survival depends on identifying what's right for MAPs, and that only happens when we avoid the trap of heeding group sentiment - which today is right-wing thinly-veiled pedo “hunter” propaganda or liberal-centrist anti over-protectionism.
Antis can afford to be conformist and aligned with their own interests; in contrast, we as MAPs have no choice but to be distrustful of society and delight in disagreeing and contradicting, for there is no home within the mainstream parts of the political spectrum, not even the fringes that are closer to the mainstream than us.