Amerika

The important thing to recognize about Leftists is that they are one variety of a human dysfunction that has many subtypes. Leftists are self-centered people, as opposed to merely having self-interest, and because that viewpoint is not realistic, it is unstable and they need to force it upon others to feel legitimized.

This makes them passive-aggressive bullies. Their viewpoint is weak because it is not real; therefore, they have to come up with a social response when people notice this, and that response must reflect personal importance and fears of being socially excluded to get other people to pay attention.

Because of this need to manipulate, they become ironist contrarians. Their first rule is that things are not as they seem, but how individual humans and human social groups want to see them, which is as a rosy reality where the scary things are not there and everyone gets what they want.

This enables the contrarians to deny reality. They employ the oldest of human gambits, that of rationalization: instead of looking to the world to see what is real, they find out what they want and invent some way of arguing that it is real or “should” be real.

When these individuals form groups, we get Crowdism, or groups dedicated to what they find appealing instead of what is real, and these groups enforce conformity through control because otherwise people will “notice” that the current theory held by the group is unrealistic.

This is what happens when groups decide they want to believe me-first self-centeredness instead of a holistic outlook on life. They become pathological reality-denial engines. This makes them vulnerable, so they lash out at those who notice reality, and do their best to suppress this noticing.

The proof of Crowdism is that human civilizations keep self-destructing in the same manner. If you keep having bad results, one or more of your assumptions is wrong; even worse, it is likely that your own actions are doing it, not some evil Satan or Hitler. Your successes produce the groundwork for your failures.

Crowdism is not a system but a decentralized, inherent, and unconscious pathology that grips human individuals, who then form groups on that basis, creating civilization decay:

No human organization in history has been so well-managed that it could pull off a conspiracy of this nature without revealing itself or collapsing in infighting. Whatever engendered this particular mess did not have a leader, or a central organizing principle, although it has manifested itself in centralized authority. A systematic change to this kind of order comes through a shared assumption, much like when a group of friends, upon perceiving their favorite bar is closed, meet at the next most likely place without having to communicate the name amongst themselves. More than a leaderless revolution, it was an unconscious one: those who brought it about had no idea they shared an ideology, or no idea what its name might be, or even why they did it. They simply did it because it was natural to do, and because nothing has since opposed it, it continues to this day in grossly simplified form.

We are a conspiracy against ourselves. We are now reading from the first description of Crowdism, a type of intellectual malady that afflicts humans. As Plato noted, purposeless people and civilizations become parasitic; Crowdism however explains how peer pressure causes and reinforces the oversocialization that causes reality denial.

Think for a moment: what sort of problem is it that one cannot identify and root out? The simple answer: one you cannot tell to another person, and therefore, even if you know it, no one else can work on the problem – and in modern society, every problem is too big for one man.

The dirty little secret of the West’s collapse is that it has come from within. The extent of our modern disease is revealed by the fact that when we think this, we immediately try to blame either everyone, or no one.

It is a belief system based on appearances: emotions come before logic, personal boundaries come before the necessity of doing what is right for all, and abstract divisions of “good” and “evil” regarding intent come before a realization of the effect of any action. In short, this is a belief system which manipulates by preventing certain actions rather than by recommending others, and it attacks before any action is ever committed.

In brain science, they might point out that our reactions — emotions, memories, judgments, sensations, symbols, appearances, desires — are stronger impulses than the slower, more complex signals that help us decipher the world and understand how it works.

As individuals, we use those strong feelings as a replacement for purpose and a transcendent goal, and this makes us negative and unstable, prone to form little gangs, cliques, cults, and mobs that enforce their unrealistic views on other people so that those views are not revealed as unrealistic:

It is wholly negative in nature, in that it identifies certain things that are destabilizing to those who find it important, and it attempts to censure and criminalize those. It in fact replaces the idea of having a goal with the idea of not doing wrong, and thus restricts what can be done to those whose actions might be so selfish that any sort of goal would conflict with them.

The virus spreads through hubris, or a desire to have more privileges than are afforded by one’s duty and place in the hierarchy of life. When peasants want to be kings, that is hubris; when kings want to be gods, that too is hubris. The core of it is a spectrum of narcissism from egotism to collectivism to sexual sadism. It is a human pathology.

Another way to look at it is from this angle: imagine that something needs to be done for the good of an entire community. Healthy people are willing to make sacrifices for this. But some would prefer to rigidly negate that proposal because it interferes with their personal fortunes or convenience. By doing this, they are dooming the community in the long run, even if it means they get to keep whatever it was they desired in the short term. These people need some kind of protection that, no matter what the overall goal is, justifies their selfishness. Even better, it should eliminate the concept of overall goal, and focus only on the individual. To do that, a morality was created which banned actions and not goals, effectively hobbling any goal-setting because any real change will always infringe upon someone’s little world.

The group validates the illusion and punishes outsiders, which makes it easy to join the group, and it then becomes an amplification chamber for unrealistic thinking. Crowds provide anonymity and make people more willing to be extreme, knowing they can blame the mob (like blaming the vote) if things go wrong.

To do this, we must go to folk wisdom, in which it is recognized that what people would not do as individuals they will do as a mob. Under social pressure, people will take drugs, torture one another, steal, lie, cheat and delude themselves. If they internalize that social pressure, they will do these things without the presence of others because they are aware of the eventuality of having to interact with those others.

However — and this is very difficult for most people to see — the core of the crowd is individualism, or me-first self-centeredness that demands more power, wealth, and status than the individual can use for positive ends. Crowds are gangs that defend their fellow individualists against any encroachment by realism, reality, or common sense.

We name it according to the crowd because crowds are the fastest to defend individual autonomy; if any of its members are singled out, and doubt thrown upon their activities or intentions, the crowd is fragmented and loses its power. What makes crowds strong is an inability of any to criticize their members, or to suggest any kind of goal that unites people, because what makes for the best crowds is a lack of goal. Without a higher vision or ideal, crowds rapidly degenerate into raiding parties, although of a passive nature. They argue for greater “freedom.” They want more wealth. Anything they see they feel should be divided up among the crowd.

The core of it is a lack of purpose caused by low self-confidence, some of which is genetic, and some of which merely reflects peer pressure.

In short, a crowd does not exist except where underconfidence unites people who, being unable to lead on their own, find solace in the leadership and power of others. They want to be in control, but they are afraid to lead, and thus each person in the crowd delegates his authority to others. The crowd therefore moves not by choices, but by lowest common denominator, assessing each decision in terms of what all people in the crowd have in common.

Their first goal is to set up a substitute for reality, whether tests in school or popularity at the local pub, that enables Crowdists to rise over everyone else.

Crowdists love “competition” of a fixed nature, where a single vector determines the winner. They do not like real life competition, including evolution, as it assess the individual as a whole and does not simply rank individuals by ability.

Once they get power, they begin systematically dismantling culture, race, faith, ethnicity, social class, and any other form of organic order because it interferes with their pursuit of self-interest, self-expression, and accumulation of power.

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.

Ultimately, much like dualistic religions by removing reality remove the need for gods, they remove the external world and find that they now have nothing to live for and even less purpose than before. Their aimlessness makes them parasitic, and the success of their parasitism reveals their inner emptiness.

The paradox of crowdism is that because these people refuse to have a long term vision, they have nothing worth dying for, and therefore their lives are empty of meaning and they respond with the hollow attempts to control that comprise Crowdism. It is as a pathology much like overeating, in which case one confuses the signal for being full, which eliminates psychological doubt, with the process of eating, and hopes that by eating again and again to banish doubt (which increasing doubt in direct proportion to girth!). If they had faith, or belief in doing something which does not immediately reward them, or the vision to see the benefit in doing things which help the community as a whole but in the distant future, they would not have this gnawing emptiness.

Although Crowdism is decentralized, it quickly selects certain leaders who are good at manipulation. Narcissists dominate human societies because narcissists are manipulative, and therefore both communicate easily through gestures/appearances and also offer a contrarian view of the world where reality is not real, and this seduces the suckers looking for false hope:

If one were to divide up a population according to “Crowdist theory,” there would be many sheep, a few born leaders and a larger group of shrewd people who lack the capacity of a true leader, but are mentally agile enough to manipulate the crowd and make a profit from it. These are your Josef Stalins, Ken Lays, Ivan Boesky, George W. Bushes. They are cynical enough to realize that the “ideology” of the crowd is nothing but lies, and its actual agenda is power. They recognize that the crowd loves gaining power through revenge on those with more talent, intelligence, beauty and character than itself, and these manipulators create bogeymen and justifications faster than the crowd can decode them. However, to be a manipulator in a crowd is to be acutely conscious of belonging in the crowd; after all, if one did not need the crowd, something else would have been the path. Thus manipulators both love and loathe the crowd, appreciating it for being the vehicle of their own greatness, but hating it for being necessary and thus constantly forcing them into the role of gentle servant when their inner wolf-personality seeks to escape and manifest itself. Manipulators are like drug dealers: they realize too late that their profession will consume them by forcing them into a function, and thereby eliminating any hope they ever had of making decisions about their own lives. They follow the function, and therefore, all of their choices are reactions; there are no independent choices to be made.

In the end, the emptiness spreads, and soon people become entirely devoid of purpose and through that, unable to make even basic decisions. They are turned into neurotic opportunists wandering around looking for distractions.

Crowdism promotes apathy by forcing inane decisions on people and threatening them with passive aggression if they refuse. This could be seen most clearly in the former Soviet Union, where people quietly worked around any number of absurd proclamations and dysfunctional government agencies. They realized that things were hopelessly broken, but that the first person to speak up about it would be torn to pieces by the crowd, thus these things had to be tolerated. And what a disgusting word “tolerance” is – it means to recognize something’s inaptitude, but to ignore it and even accept it. Accept mediocrity. Accept failure. Accept the lack of a goal. This beats people down into a state of submission which periodically polarizes itself and becomes violent, as if all of the psychological energy kept suppressed when given an outlet explodes to the surface in a form beneath rationality or even an organized emotional state.

In order to remain in power, Crowdism must implement control as a means of beating back the herd.

In every human event involving two or more people, the social impulse conflicts with the inner self. The social impulse is composed of what we want done to us, and how we convince others to do what we want done. Because both we and they are human, the natural tendency arises to assume that both have the same motivations because they have the same sensations, a condition which rapidly approximates solipsism. When reinforced by the group, the condition accelerates, such that reality is gradually minimized because it naturally clashes with a human-centered view of the world, and eventually inversion occurs, where the meanings of words and things are changed into their opposite. With this comes a backward thought process of rationalizing from what is, in order to feel good about it, so that others can be motivated with this good feeling to do what is necessary despite the otherwise crushing pressure of solipsism, like an exploded star becoming a black hole.

Control requires a constant beating-down of realists and subjugation of anyone with common sense, so that Crowdism is safe from people noticing that it is a popular but unrealistic illusion (this is what illusion means: something that is not real).

The metaphor of Plato’s cave comes to mind. Most people see the world through symbols, imagery, gestures, tokens, emotions, and other manipulations; those who aspire to realism see the world through cause-effect relationships. The Crowdist needs to exist only in the layer of social rationalization where humans argue for what they want by justifying it as an instance of a symbol that the Crowd agrees is good:

For this reason, at least two layers exist to our human world: there is the public layer, in which we explain our rationalizations to each other, and an underlying layer, understood by few, where actual cause-effect relationships are understood.

In that public layer, we reason backward from what already exists. “The economy needs” or “bipartisanship demands compromise.” Here, we are looking not just at the material world, but the configuration in which it stands now, and reasoning from that about what our future should be. This necessarily follows a single direction, because each act accepts the last as necessary and reacts to it in order to keep it from failing. It is like building a house out of a shack; we add on rooms to support existing rooms, and end up with a chaotic design.

Plato argues for a cave metaphor, and the ancient Vedic scribes talked about the veil of Maya, but this is not as simple as “materialism.” It is our tendency to mistake effects for causes of themselves, much as we like to see ourselves as causes of ourselves, which manifests in materiality as opposed to seeing patterns, which is what we call idealism of the German school.

The social/visual approach to life treats effects as causes because it infers intent from them in a superstitious manner arising from human solipsism, since we view our will as sacred and anything impeding it as an evil or at least resistant force. We must beat reality down in order to be masters of reality and defeat death.

Humans claim to want safety, but what they mean is freedom from being incorrect in their assessment of reality, thus subject to natural selection via physical or social means. In nature, the man who fails to make a fire on a cold night dies; in human society, the rest of the group is obligated to save him, thus dooming the group to drown in incompetents as more of them are saved and reproduce. Fate treats us all unequally. Some are born to sweet delight, and some are born to endless night, but social control would have them all be born to a state in-between, a perpetual grey mediocrity where they are safe but also prohibited from reaching excellence, beauty, realism, honor and virtue.

Human solipsism requires an illusion to stay stable; the solipsist crusades for a pleasant mental sensation of being in control and being powerful, and does not care what he sacrifices to maintain that. He manipulates others to make them support his beliefs and therefore feels content despite the instability.

In the end, the manipulation is the domain of those solipsists, narcissists, sociopaths, sexual sadists, psychopaths, egotists, and other purposeless but delusional people. They use symbols to achieve their manipulation, which is why we live in the Age of Symbolism:

Language is a virus that seeks to supplant natural order. People are able to use language to manipulate one another, and through this can get ahead with social/ideological means instead of by producing actual results in external reality.

They manifest this through bluffing, or pretending that they are (morally) right and using that projected guilt and fear to cause others to go along with them. They pretend they will be proven right, then use that to intimidate others, and use passive-aggression to dominate their personalities.

This is the essence of Crowdist control.

In addition to the above, there are a few other things worth knowing about Crowdism:

1. Crowds enforce conformity: to stand out in a Crowd is to risk being ejected from that group. To be important in the Crowd, one must stand out somewhat by having a novel take on the ideas of the Crowd, but any deviation from this leads to becoming a thought-criminal.
2. Superiority complex: in order to keep its beliefs, the Crowd must believe itself to be morally and factually superior to all others, and therefore, must denigrate them repeatedly in order to keep unity within itself. A Crowd is nothing if it does not have a scapegoat to rebel against.
3. The Committee Problem: in any committee, people will shy away from hard problems and turn toward easy and emotionally rewarding ones. As a result, committees specialize in perpetuating the problems that the committees are designed to prevent.
4. Buying off: those who are going to bluff need to have others who will repeat the same things they are saying. For this reason, Crowds buy loyalty from special interests, and this creates more special interests, because unless you are part of a special interest group, you will have no power.
5. Individualism: the key to understanding collective behavior is that it is insurance for individuals so that they do not face any consequences for their actions. They want to force the rest of the world to support them so that they feel justified in their delusions, and when groups of these people form, they demand collective reward as a means to that end.
6. Retroactive critique: conformity to ilusion — this is the root of all human group problems, and parallels individual solipsism/hubris — enforces itself by critique of people after the fact for not doing what other people are doing. If everyone burns a goat to bring the rain-gods, and you do not, and also your crops fail, you get blamed rather than fate even though burning rain-gods did not bring crop success to others.
7. Path of Least Resistance: no matter what politicians you overthrow, companies you sue, or ideas you censor, the herd still follows whatever illusion is the path of least resistance. If you have used political correctness or control to remove some methods/ideas from the table, they will choose from whatever is left, which means that you always get a simplistic solution designed to increase emotional state rather than a practical answer.

The most important facet of the psychology may be the fact that a bluff is a one-shot deal. For them cause and effect are the same, so they demand a certain effect like “equality” with no cause because the implicit cause is that the herd enforces the demand and everyone else makes it happen.

They never have a “plan B.” The bluff is their only plan; if you resist the bluff, they tend to collapse in ruins because you have seen through their posture of moral superiority and scientific wisdom. Their entire plan was to cow you with their illusory superiority complex and then dominate you, and they have no fallback.

Generally, people are more afraid of social unpopularity than they are about finding truth, reality, or even sanity, so the bluff works. The herd threatens you with public criticism and potentially ostracism, so you just bow to whatever they want and then they take over.

As we understand more that our problem is within — and not the Rich, the Jew, the Whites, the Blacks, the Illuminati, the Satanists, the Conservatives — it becomes essential to recognize the passive-aggressive bluff and thwart it because it is never necessary, therefore if it is being used, it is to achieve something destructive.

Tags: age of symbolism, collapse, crowdism, decline, narcissism, oversocialization, rationalization, solipsism, the committee mentality