Yes, polcomp is about neatly separating people into definable categories. In-groups and out-groups. This is anti-solidarity, counter-revolutionary, and the footwork of the fascists.
if you quantify qualities (put political values into numbers) you can play numerical tricks with them, like having a spatialy located centre - people associate the centre of anything with stuff, and same with edges or corners, and also signs like - and +.
so yeah its about putting people in groups, but also i think about disolving or warping the terms they use and reducing political debate.
reducing it all to keywords and numbers means not having to investigate the arguments behind the words/numbers, you can just use them as totems or arguments in themselves or reference points without having to argue.
There's a mysticism you can create with numbers, they're seen as invoilable or axiomatic so if you can map political arguments to them you can pretend the thing they reference is also axiomatic.
I think you make a good point, but it's less an op and more just the standard MO for what liberalism does to everything; Vulgarize it, disarm it, and then absorb it.
Through the use of those sliding scales and number magic we can transform 4 distinct ideologies into the qualities or data points you mentioned, sucking out the revolutionary spirit like a hoover vacuum. This is the vulgarization. You like cops? AuthRight trait, +1 to your Dictator stat. You gay? Anarchist trait, +1 Antifa stat. These are no longer ideologies/belief structures, but rather buckets of flair that you can reach into to pull out the various opinion pins to put on your shit.
We now have people hitting the 4 vulgarized "quadrants," but at the end of the day they are all simply ideologically incoherent terminally online people with a bag full of flair. These people are too busy winnowing out the "bad guys" from their in-group to organize or reach some kind of solidarity. After all, we can't go about starting socialism with all these goddamn tankies in my twitter mentions talking about gulags! This is the disarmament.
Which leads us to absorption, where Capital takes advantage of the discord to use these in-groups as marketing demographics for their Che t-shirts and rainbow-packaged BLT sandwiches.
Yes, polcomp is about neatly separating people into definable categories. In-groups and out-groups. This is anti-solidarity, counter-revolutionary, and the footwork of the fascists.
maybe it's paranoid but i think it's an op
if you quantify qualities (put political values into numbers) you can play numerical tricks with them, like having a spatialy located centre - people associate the centre of anything with stuff, and same with edges or corners, and also signs like - and +.
so yeah its about putting people in groups, but also i think about disolving or warping the terms they use and reducing political debate.
reducing it all to keywords and numbers means not having to investigate the arguments behind the words/numbers, you can just use them as totems or arguments in themselves or reference points without having to argue.
There's a mysticism you can create with numbers, they're seen as invoilable or axiomatic so if you can map political arguments to them you can pretend the thing they reference is also axiomatic.
I think you make a good point, but it's less an op and more just the standard MO for what liberalism does to everything; Vulgarize it, disarm it, and then absorb it.
Through the use of those sliding scales and number magic we can transform 4 distinct ideologies into the qualities or data points you mentioned, sucking out the revolutionary spirit like a hoover vacuum. This is the vulgarization. You like cops? AuthRight trait, +1 to your Dictator stat. You gay? Anarchist trait, +1 Antifa stat. These are no longer ideologies/belief structures, but rather buckets of flair that you can reach into to pull out the various opinion pins to put on your shit.
We now have people hitting the 4 vulgarized "quadrants," but at the end of the day they are all simply ideologically incoherent terminally online people with a bag full of flair. These people are too busy winnowing out the "bad guys" from their in-group to organize or reach some kind of solidarity. After all, we can't go about starting socialism with all these goddamn tankies in my twitter mentions talking about gulags! This is the disarmament.
Which leads us to absorption, where Capital takes advantage of the discord to use these in-groups as marketing demographics for their Che t-shirts and rainbow-packaged BLT sandwiches.
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