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- Nov 21, 2021
That's all very nice...I personally believe there is still some hope for the internet. The internet has its thumb on the collective unconsciousness of a very large portion of the world. This is naturally why organisations are subverting it to begin with, as advertisers have always attempted to subvert the collective unconscious for profit through branding. This is naturally why places like reddit attempt to control the status quo. But it's also why the internet is useful to dissidents. By being connected to the internet you have the power to connect with one of the largest hubs around for the collective unconscious and unlike the average consuming normie, you don't have to merely receive (or relay) signals(fuck and suck), but you can transmit(seed and feed)your own signals. Naturally the powers who wish to control this will try to terminate your broadcast if your message conflicts too much with their messaging, but there's ways to mitigate that.
Most memes these days in the collective unconscious simply compete for people's time and nothing else. It is possible to make memes that confer benefits to their hosts, to send positive signals that strengthen the receiver in some form, be it just emotionally (increasing morale) or through giving them tangible knowledge or wisdom. All of this is naturally a consequence of just having such a vast system of communication which everyone is plugged into, you can interface with the collective unconscious without the internet, but the internet certainly strengthens your reach. Even if you don't use the internet, someone who does who decides to spread your message can use it.
To make this post more coherent I'm going to skip straight to the point. The internet is a very great means for expression and therefore also a means with which to share and articulate your views with others, which if your views are received as enlightening, may be shared further. This vast reception of a particular message influences people in subtle ways and if it's reach becomes far enough it will affect the collective unconsciousness more significantly, which means it is affecting society as a whole. Naturally anyone trying to maintain control of a narrative will feel extremely threatened by this, but they feel threatened by it to the degree that they do primarily because it's so hard for them to actually do anything about this threat to them. It promotes dissidence against them and can be potentially used to defeat them in the long run. I think the internet can avoid becoming the exclusive tool and weapon of our enemies if we are robust enough in our use of the internet to spread knowledge and truth far and wide, and this is indeed a difficult thing when you face opposition, but facing opposition is often not the end.
For the people who will be allowed to use it.
Which won't be you, chud.