Thread by @wydna00

All online political discourse, all the takes and owns, all has as its exclusive and ultimate aim, not the improvement of material conditions in reality, but the control of the cybernetic psychological warfare machine that forges reality. There’s nothing noble about participating

Demonstrating or amplifying performances of morally laudable opinions in service of this competition and the increasing of the share of influence possessed by people whose leveraging of that influence you believe you will materially benefit from does not make you a good person

It’s through the ability to manipulate or influence the appearance of public opinion consensus thar power is wielded, as the fictive construct of that consensus is the illegitimate ground of action by the liberal state. But this mechanism is inherently always fraudulent

The majority of people, regardless of whatever flavor of ideological self-justification they abuse, or under a pernicious delusion that their construction of an appearance of moral propriety within this context equates to genuine moral conviction. They are fooling themselves

Your opinions, and sentiments, if they were indeed self-sufficiently righteous, would remain so regardless or whether you put them on display. The fact that you need to so display them to have their supposed worth validated by the discourse machine suggests they’re phantasmal

The entire idea that the field or public discourse constitutes the premiere battlefield in the fight for the moral reform of reality is a self-serving ideological foundation for solipsistic self construction and projection. The whole thing is antithetical to moral goodness

This is why so much content within this framework has the character or a self-help program. Such regimens consist in tools and techniques for the management and construction of public image, as that image itself, despite its fictive status, is the instrument of social power

As the illusion of the discourse and the consensus it generates is politically reified by the liberal state as a mandate for its crimes, so the online discourse participant reifies their projection of their public self into an idol of their own egoism they may vainly admire

The prevalence or these illusions and our addiction to them constitute the real social-political problematic of our time. The particular disposition of such illusions at present is irrelevant. The goal is not to adjust that disposition, but to dispel the illusions themselves

To labor under the delusion that slightly correcting the aesthetic character of the illusions this or that way equates to meaningful political program or will affect any worthwhile reform or things in actuality is a lie people tell themselves. There is nothing good in any of this

This is the basic truth of the matter that all discourse havers must come to grips with sooner or later. If they’re unwilling or unable to do so, they’re lost.