Thread by @MMBrussell

It’s a widespread frame, throughout the Republican ecosystem.
A big part of it is (irony) reactance, shaped by accelerationist narratives.

1/ The problem is that there’s no political solutions to it.
That requires a narrative driven antidote. Which depends mostly on media.

https://twitter.com/anatosaurus/status/1587581273723133953

2/ Even now we underestimate the power of narrative, often we ignore it. It strikes me as peculiar because we see the consequences of a toxic variant of it every day: accelerationist narratives. accresearch.org/shortanalysis/…

3/ The challenge with a narrative driven antidote is that it needs to match the requirements for what it has to engage. In our case, nascent authoritarianism.

We need to realise that the pattern didn’t start with one man, it’s a product of cultural engineering: 🧶

https://twitter.com/MMBrussell/status/1541108837209571328

4/ It’s hard for a society like ours to defend against authoritarians, we react, we’re accustomed to reductionism.

Whatever narratives we design as antidote, we’ll need to meet the requirements of warding off authoritarianism:

- Big Picture Awareness
- (Uniform) Accountability

5/ As humans we tend wake after bad things happen. Especially when we’re boiled like frogs, once bad things happen, they happen quickly.

Let’s make sure it doesn’t get that far, most of us have no idea what life under authoritarianism really is like. #VoteBlue

https://twitter.com/MMBrussell/status/1568970747615543296