It's a clever idea, if a bit of a rehash of memetics. In the case of the title, the premise is that there are memes that aren't helpful or funny, but simply efficient behavior-modification vectors, and are more prone to modifying the perceptual process to increase transmission.
You'll notice it when you see some big fat tanquisha in one of those critical race seminar clips, where they spout off a bunch of discursive bullshit that contradicts itself every other sentence, into a pile of words that don't really mean anything. Theres such a thing as self-radicialization, this is that. The surface level complexity of the language gives them a dopamine hit if I had to guess, which leads them to believe they have some virtue (intelligence, etc), which encourages both a deepening of time/reputation investment into the idealogy, and subsequent reliance on it, at the cost of critical thinking.
Actually, come to think of it, what it reminds me of is a cult, and cult dynamics.
Makes me wonder if techniques and methods for deprogramming/deconstructing cults could be applied to the ideology itself.
prototype 1 points 1.8 years ago
It's a clever idea, if a bit of a rehash of memetics. In the case of the title, the premise is that there are memes that aren't helpful or funny, but simply efficient behavior-modification vectors, and are more prone to modifying the perceptual process to increase transmission.
You'll notice it when you see some big fat tanquisha in one of those critical race seminar clips, where they spout off a bunch of discursive bullshit that contradicts itself every other sentence, into a pile of words that don't really mean anything. Theres such a thing as self-radicialization, this is that. The surface level complexity of the language gives them a dopamine hit if I had to guess, which leads them to believe they have some virtue (intelligence, etc), which encourages both a deepening of time/reputation investment into the idealogy, and subsequent reliance on it, at the cost of critical thinking.
Actually, come to think of it, what it reminds me of is a cult, and cult dynamics.
Makes me wonder if techniques and methods for deprogramming/deconstructing cults could be applied to the ideology itself.