last post<\/a>\u00a0I argued that Social Media is designed to be a Histrionic gas lighting chamber.\u00a0 To briefly reiterate: a Histrionic is a Cluster B personality disorder who seeks affect by becoming the \u2018peace maker\u2019 in their social group; but to do this, they first need to have conflict.\u00a0 They accomplish this by whispering rumours to all around them, until everybody they know is exploding with anger at one another, while they remain the eye of the storm.<\/p>\nYou can see this effect writ large on Social Media.\u00a0 Every time you log in, you\u2019re inundated with status updates which are designed to cause shock and outrage in you.\u00a0 Unlike the walled-garden of an Internet forum \u2013 which will primarily focus on topics you\u2019re interested in, rather than topics which upset you \u2013 Social Media throws everybody into one place, Liberals and Conservatives, men and women, cats and dogs \u2013 and then the obvious happens.\u00a0 People start fighting.<\/p>\n
Social Media is intentionally designed to create this effect, so that those who run things can \u2018save the day\u2019 by imposing arbitrary speech codes.\u00a0 Politics has nothing to do with it, except by accident\u2026 until you realize what sort of political orientation is most attracted to it.<\/p>\n
As noted above, the Alt Left (and to a lesser degree Democrats in general) score high in Neuroticism.\u00a0 Neurotic people are those most attracted to Social Media, out of their constant worries about what everybody else is thinking.\u00a0 They\u2019re the least likely to listen to the \u2018other side of the story\u2019, and they\u2019re the most easily manipulated by Histrionic gas lighting (those who are low in Neuroticism don\u2019t care what others are saying about them).\u00a0 Thus, the perfect storm: Social Media has been weaponized against those who are most likely to use it, those who are neurotypally of the Alt Left or Democrat persuasion, and it\u2019s being done in such a way to make them blame everyone other than the person who\u2019s responsible for whipping them into a frenzy.<\/p>\n
Social Media is driving the Left insane, pushing them into hysterical echo chambers, and detaching them from reality.\u00a0 The Leftist bent of Social Media isn\u2019t because of the politics of the controllers; it\u2019s because of the personality traits of those who are most easily manipulated by those controllers.<\/p>\n
The Future of Social Media<\/h2>\n
At present, China is experimenting with their social media site Sesame Credit.\u00a0 They\u2019re expanding it beyond what we have in the West, they\u2019re using it to measure your social credit as a citizen, with privileges and punishments connected to your score.\u00a0 While this has brought on comparisons to\u00a0Black Mirror<\/em>and\u00a01984<\/em>\u00a0amongst Westerners, let\u2019s give China the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 The Communist legacy and punitive legal regime in China have eroded the social trust of the citizenry, and as a result low-level corruption, low-quality construction, and even turning a blind eye to accident victims in need of help, are all regular occurrences there.\u00a0 One of the goals of Sesame Credit is to create incentives for pro-social behaviour, to recreate the sort of norms which were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.\u00a0 But if what I have argued here is correct, then it\u2019s a project which is doomed to failure.<\/p>\nSocial Media serves no purpose aside from turning Neurotics hysterical; the political polarization in the West demonstrates this.\u00a0 The West implemented these systems (through government funding of Google and Facebook) for the sake of monitoring and controlling their populations; instead, what they\u2019ve created is a population that\u2019s juvenile, furious, and polarized.\u00a0 In other words, in their quest for control, they lost all control.\u00a0 Sesame Credit is likewise doomed to failure.\u00a0 Rather than encourage pro-social behaviour, it will result in mass hysteria; it will manifest along different social lines than here in the West, but its character will be the same: masses of insane people demanding that the witches be set aflame.<\/p>\n
As for us Westerners, finding a path out of this morass will be difficult.\u00a0 The one thing the Left desperately needs \u2013 exposure to people on the Right, so that they can realize that they\u2019re not the Nazi Demons they think they are \u2013 is precisely what won\u2019t happen, as they disappear deeper into their Social Media echo chamber of delusion.\u00a0 For those of us who haven\u2019t fallen into this pit, there\u2019s little that we can do.\u00a0 Arguing with a delusional Neurotic will only confirm their delusions; the best we can hope for is that the constant outrages burns them out (there are some signs that this may be happening), or that the Social Media companies thumb their noses at the citizenry one time too many, and are finally dismantled..<\/p>\n
When it comes to Social Media, the only winning move is not to play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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