Vantablack
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I don't care about politics in the personal sense, I'm blackpilled enough to know that no real change is possible and the best move is to enjoy the decline.
However, still, it feels weird knowing about the nature of things. Being dissident about feminism, liberal democracy, diversity, equality, capitalism and all these things that were pushed to me as good, positive forces ever since I was a child. I was always an edgy teen, I would lurk /pol/ and /r9k/ because it was funny, different, shocking. For the longest time, a lot of the "shocking" content would be covered around a veil of irony. People would push the most seemingly inane conspiracy theories, trying to one-up each other. Of course there were people who believed in things, but you never truly knew what was a troll and what was actually real.
It's also probably because media censorship was so extremely high at this time, and confirmation for anything was near impossible.
If someone said a few years ago that "there is a cabal of satanic jews that dismember and sacrifice babies on private islands", I would probably agree with them. However, there would also be a level of meta-awareness that I would have. That the ridiculousness of the sentence uttered itself deserved acknowledgement. This extended to anything dissident (with varying degrees)- critiques of feminism, jewish conspiracy theories and of course the nazi support.
If you told me at 14 that a few years later I would unironically think Hitler was a good guy trying to save his country, and not just something I belived, atleast partially, to be edgy I wouldn't believe you. However this veil of irony is gone completely, even from those old dissident spaces, extending to the blackpill.
The old forums and especially reddit incelosphere was much more lighthearted than .org today. There were a lot more memes and a lot more trolling, which I believe stemmed from this irony that is gone now. Youngcels won't realise but the blackpill was really revolutionary for its time and its ideas were super shocking. Even just saying looks matter more than personality elicited the same meta-irony that I spoke about. Now these things are considered obvious.
However, still, it feels weird knowing about the nature of things. Being dissident about feminism, liberal democracy, diversity, equality, capitalism and all these things that were pushed to me as good, positive forces ever since I was a child. I was always an edgy teen, I would lurk /pol/ and /r9k/ because it was funny, different, shocking. For the longest time, a lot of the "shocking" content would be covered around a veil of irony. People would push the most seemingly inane conspiracy theories, trying to one-up each other. Of course there were people who believed in things, but you never truly knew what was a troll and what was actually real.
It's also probably because media censorship was so extremely high at this time, and confirmation for anything was near impossible.
If someone said a few years ago that "there is a cabal of satanic jews that dismember and sacrifice babies on private islands", I would probably agree with them. However, there would also be a level of meta-awareness that I would have. That the ridiculousness of the sentence uttered itself deserved acknowledgement. This extended to anything dissident (with varying degrees)- critiques of feminism, jewish conspiracy theories and of course the nazi support.
If you told me at 14 that a few years later I would unironically think Hitler was a good guy trying to save his country, and not just something I belived, atleast partially, to be edgy I wouldn't believe you. However this veil of irony is gone completely, even from those old dissident spaces, extending to the blackpill.
The old forums and especially reddit incelosphere was much more lighthearted than .org today. There were a lot more memes and a lot more trolling, which I believe stemmed from this irony that is gone now. Youngcels won't realise but the blackpill was really revolutionary for its time and its ideas were super shocking. Even just saying looks matter more than personality elicited the same meta-irony that I spoke about. Now these things are considered obvious.
