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The Mr Smith Effect

submitted by AOUsNameIsDavid to Memes 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 09:17:40 ago (+13/-1)     (Memes)



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[ - ] CHIRO 4 points 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 10:43:06 ago (+4/-0)

It's also explainable as a social phenomenon that has been with us since long before computers and internet...rather, it's a phenomenon that the internet has brought to the fore. Women are a social force for distributing moral facts and value statements, like a distributed network.

Very simply, men fight each other over values, women pick up the winners and distribute them, enforcing norms.

It's just that, today, you live in a society where the central government is the female's proxy husband, so yes, in many ways she does behave like an agent in the Matrix. In a feminist world, He is who subsidizes her independence. He provides no-fault divorce. He enforces child support payments, and hands out welfare benefits. He provides abortions, and sends the cops to do the dirty work if need be.

If men stood up and overthrew their government, women's behavior would change very suddenly.

For women, morals are badges or tokens that behave like signifiers of the men they are associated with. In the same way men wore an insignia of their family line or something, you can treat the kind of behavior we see morally today not so much as an actual moral phenomenon, but rather as a social one. You're seeing a lot of people just showing you the tokens of the gang they belong to (or religion, or tribe, or what have you).

I'm not against using the computer metaphors, but I also found they got a bit tiring after so many years. I'm favoring the appeal to history, not the future, now.

[ - ] Steelerfish 2 points 1.9 yearsJun 5, 2022 20:24:21 ago (+2/-0)

This explains why the demographic that is most supportive of the Biden administration is the suburban women.

[ - ] AOUsNameIsDavid [op] 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 10:47:14 ago (+1/-0)

That's one version of it. This phenomena manifests itself in many different ways. Gatekeepers on forums are a good example, crying for censorship because the truth will claw at the very fabric of their reality.

[ - ] Fascinus 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 13:13:23 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] i_hate_sodomites 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 09:48:20 ago (+1/-0)

You mean like most of the kike fags here on Voat?

[ - ] AOUsNameIsDavid [op] 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 10:22:40 ago (+1/-0)

I never thought there would be feds on forums with a few hundred people at most. I was dead wrong.

[ - ] i_hate_sodomites 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 12, 2022 09:47:27 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah, they're doing their fucking best to make sure that "Old Voat" doesn't resurrect itself. And it seems they're succeeding.....

[ - ] WhiteCollarCriminal 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 09:41:00 ago (+1/-0)

Damn

[ - ] VitaminSieg 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 14:56:16 ago (+0/-0)

Pierce's Lemming analogy is better. It doesn't require some abstract, metaphysical argument.

[ - ] AOUsNameIsDavid [op] 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 20:14:57 ago (+0/-0)

I disagree. Most of the people these days have been fooled into a world full of metaphysics that people have been brainwashed to regurgitate since childhood. People are already in their matrix pods.