"How to Radicalize a Normie" | Here we go again
This video popped up as a recommendation today while I was watching a Tim Pool video,
this video in particular, and I decided to watch it, since I always try to give these videos a chance to play out and explain themselves. Allowing them to explain themselves, and get there points out so that I may counter with my own points, on why what they said is inherently wrong and arrogantly blind to reality. They labeled all these relatively normal, right of center or centrist commentators as "Alt-Right" and "national socialists". Absolutely insane, They've gone off the deep end. And from there, my brain is shut off and I stop listening...
except for this timeI don't know what it was, or what he said, but something hit me. I always dismissed his content because of misuse of words or knee-jerk labels, without actually listening to what the hell he was saying or what was going on. I had an epiphany. Everything I'd ever heard about the left or the "far left/leftists", about every argument and point, had been made by those who are not really a part of that group or usually interact with said group head-on. And any scenes or events that had been, had been edited and modified, and I'd never seen the other point of view. I became complacent and was willing to accept what I saw as true, without questioning what was going on in front of me, in my own life. More things dawned on me, that I usually rejects or dismissed. I wasn't willing to listen to most of what he'd said because most of it was exaggeration or false, but I also rejected what was clearly true. Yes, a lot of this video is bullstuff, but don't let that justify you dismissing what is real.
I've been ignoring the reality that I'd been accepting tribal ideas and thought processes, while dismissing criticism with "it's edgy humor" or "in-jest", but the reality was, that I really believed they were just jokes, but I didn't separate funny from reality. The best humor has truth in it, and that was also part of my mindset. That what I said was funny because it was true. And I started believing tribal things, even if I didn't recognize that they were indeed tribal. I also have been unwilling to accept counter arguments, because you hit a red-flag word. What's a red-flag word? Basically these are terms that will immediatly tell me 'you're bullstuff, I won't listen anymore.'. Do other people have these? probably, but I don't want to say yes or no for sure. Red flag words, for me, included:
- tribal
- loveist
- family man
- Transphobe
- Misogynist
- Bigot
- national socialist
- Patriarchy
- Toxic Masculinity
- (implied to be racial) Diversity
Basically, anything you expect to hear from the "Feminists PWNED" types, who're the the low hanging fruit being picked and shown. It basically festered into an arrogance, where I felt if you said these words, your opinions had nothing good in them and EVERYTHING was bad. I have to emphasize, this doesn't mean I agree with EVERYTHING in this video, nor do I agree with the modern Social Justice types in their entirety or anything of that nature. What I'm saying is that I and, probably, many others have become unwilling to hear opposing viewpoints, if the opposition hits some preconceived red-flag territory. This is not healthy. Both sides have they're "The other is the evil, and we're the good" mentality. This video definitely shows that throughout and near the end. However, that doesn't mean everything they said is stuff and should go straight into the trash. And most importantly, I'm not who I thought I was, or what I thought I was. Stay vigilant.