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Zorost's avatar

There will never be a normie uprising, by the very nature of normies. They need leaders to tell them what to do. Either some of us become those leaders IRL or we're just voices on the internet that will become increasingly silo'd and silenced.

So less polemicizing online, more talking irl.

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You write, "As I wrap this up, a few words. Ultimately I believe that narratives are more persuasive than facts..."

Over the long run, however, facts most strongly control the course of the ongoing post-Paleolithic human mental and physical argument with reality -- and all mistaken portions of any given human narration (model) striving to string these facts together eventually find their correct place down in the jumble of the Babel debris pile. Over the same long run, the most persuasive, enduring narratives (models) are those which not only 'elegantly' tie the basic facts together but those which also best allow humans to elude internal and external threats to life; i.e., the most persuasive, most-enduring narratives are ultimately those which are most predictive. See science -- and the universally-shared aspects and beliefs of the world's religions and philosophies.

What you call "globohomo" itself operates exactly as if narrative is more persuasive than facts. This mode of operation is not, as most of your readers no doubt already recognize, an effective way to elude internal and external threats to life. It is a very effective way to curtail life (and families, businesses, industries, nations, and political parties).

Moral of the story? First, pay close and constant attention to the facts and then be really, really careful and wary in narrative construction, narrative adoption, and narrative modification.

PS: Rand Paul's critical weakness as a VP candidate is that he has no practical, successful prior experience in governance and/or other management. Ditto Vance, Carson. Considering this critical criterion, Flynn would probably work out relatively well as a Trump VP -- as would DeSantis.

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