Post AC9UGWrd8lmdtQ1bOa by velartrill@springbo.cc
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 (DIR) Post #AC9RDZCng9H8QJp4nw by velartrill@springbo.cc
       2021-10-08T10:05:21.994498Z
       
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       http://www.amerika.org/texts/crowdism/
       
 (DIR) Post #AC9SiVAYppACpx5eHQ by velartrill@springbo.cc
       2021-10-08T10:21:22.209712Z
       
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       > Of course, since the crowd has disclaimed all true idealism, its only ideology is that of personal gain. It is by nature opposed to culture, since culture establishes a values system against which one can refer any potential choice to determine its viability in the community’s preference. Crowdists like to replace culture with the grandfather of multiculture, which is the idea of a facilitative society, or one in which the only goal is to satisfy its members. In this vision, a common goal or even standard of society is not needed. Society exists for its members to fulfil their personal needs, and it explicitly disclaims the ability or need to oversee those, unless they violate the basic tenets of Crowdism, of course. Crowdists naturally embrace both internationalism, which denies local culture in favor of an international culture of novelty, and multiculture, which mixes cultures with nothing in common and claims to be satisfied with any result. Crowdism is not a decision any more than cancer is a design for a new organism; it is the lack of decision, of goal, of design. It is not random, however, so unlike chaos, it is a predictable and rarely-changing order. Some would call it entropy.
       
 (DIR) Post #AC9Sj3y1SQvklCUd60 by velartrill@springbo.cc
       2021-10-08T10:22:15.500598Z
       
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       this guy is a rightist i think but he writes like a leftist, it's a bit hard at times to ferret the good points out from the muddle of obscurantism
       
 (DIR) Post #AC9Tf2wvOp8eOqd0zo by velartrill@springbo.cc
       2021-10-08T10:32:10.455435Z
       
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       > No matter – the same old thing dressed up as something new serves a dual function, in that it both provides novelty and, by virtue of being essentially similar to everything else, avoids presenting people with stimulus they cannot recognize and thus immediately know they can handle. Low self-confidence reveals itself in situations where the unexpected occurs. Crowdists like to minimize that by dumbing everything down to the lowest common denominator, at which point they feel they dominate it and in that state of control are no longer threatened by it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AC9UGWrd8lmdtQ1bOa by velartrill@springbo.cc
       2021-10-08T10:39:01.227490Z
       
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       > Civilizations in the past saw fit to make such people into serfs and servants, such that others could give them causes, and they could both be kept from being destructive and given a raison d’etre which would sustain them for their natural lives. Crowdists will never admit it, but secretly, they have a desire to submit to authority because they do not trust their own judgment.this is a really crucial point i think. any proposed social system has to have some mechanism for dealing with these people. serfdom, slavery, soma, simple disenfranchisement, whatever -- there's no need to be cruel to them and i wouldn't want us to be, but if you give this segment of the population power over its own fate, let alone the fates of others, your civilization will inevitably face the same fate ours is currently being confronted by
       
 (DIR) Post #AC9UeWtWg7RYwCM7w8 by velartrill@springbo.cc
       2021-10-08T10:43:04.691547Z
       
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       > the crowd loves gaining power through revenge on those with more talent, intelligence, beauty and character than itselfsjwism in a nutshell