• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Deus Ex predicted this.

    Morpheus, the ‘prototype of a much larger system’, canonically created around 2027:

    “God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary.”

    “The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.”

    “The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.”

    “You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.”

    We are also largely on track for the NSF uprising, civil war, balkanization into corporate city states… and the right wing conspiracy of the 90s, FEMA death camps?

    Well, more like ICE, but uh, FEMA funds are currently being rerouted toward concentration camps, and FEMA employees have also recently been reassigned to ICE.

    The militia types from the 80s and 90s, Alex Jones… well, they willed their own nightmare into existance… extremely ironic.

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      “Every accusation is a confession” is not a new trend. Right-wing hysteria has always been the Regressivist response to their own fascist fantasies. They scream about the perceived, feared, and fabricated sins of the Left because they’re terrified of being exposed as the evil people they are. Always have been. Always will be.

      They obsess over “family values” because their values are empty shells animated by dogma, delusion, and psychopathy.

      They obsess over purity culture because they are sexually monstrous (or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, aren’t but have been convinced they are).

      They obsess over race and minority success because they fear the inevitable: becoming the minority.

      All covered in veneers of affluence meant to echo Aristocracy and stuffed with petty but insatiable greed for control over every perceived threat. That fear and insecurity manifests as an obsession with power and admiration for those who wield power selfishly without punishment.

      They willed their own nightmare into existence because their worst nightmare and their wettest dream spawn from the same putrid muck. The only difference those broken self-dehumanizing narcissists see between Heaven and Hell is who cracks the whip.

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        I come from a right wing family, was unironically raised by a dad who was very, very concerned about Ruby Ridge in the 90s, last time I talked to him before I went no-contact, full on Q-Tard, thinks Tom Hanks’ son rapes kills and eats kids for their adrenochrome, had set up his own mini machining shop in his garage to at least attempt to assemble ghost guns, attempt to make them full auto capable.

        Everything you say is correct.

        These fanatics cannot be reasoned with.

        Trust me, I have tried.

        Their minds cannot function without a God figure, they don’t believe in democracy, they are driven by resentment for being lower on the totem pole, instead of questioning the nature of power and hierarchy, they fundamentally cannot empathize beyond maybe their immediate surroundings, and often cannot manage to do it pretty much at all.