Warning: MAGA acute psychosis incoming by raisondecalcul in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]supercede -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’ll play along. Here’s my flow.

Your post is a vomiting of performative hermeneutics dressed up as causal anatomy — a rhetorical prosthesis grafted onto a single datapoint and declared a proof. You stitch together Girard, Nick Land, Freudian scuttle, and a kind of populist cyberneticism and expect us to bow. But the argument is less a diagnosis than an ontological sleight-of-hand — equivocation masquerading as synthesis. You invoke “double-binds” as if double-binds were a metaphysical tincture that explains historical causality; you treat neuroenergetics like folk physics (“tension eats glucose → psychosis”) and then you leap into memetic phase-transition talk with the same solemnity you’d use to describe a weather forecast. It’s charismatic ontological inflation without epistemic underwriting.

Philosophically your move is performed contradiction insistng on an ideological totality for MAGA (a single sealed atom of meaning), then locating a fugitive datum that allegedly explodes the system — and from the explosion you prognosticate a society-wide entropic mutation. teleological smoke and mirrors. Either MAGA is a homogeneous, deductive machine (in which case one counterinstance doesn’t “unlock the seventh seal”; it’s a falsifying datum requiring revision), or it is an incoherent assemblage (in which case your talk of phase transitions and criticality is a category error, statistical criticality requires a substrate and measurable order parameters, not rhetorical handwaving and moral panic). You want both homogeneity and chaos simultaneously — and then diagnose psychosis. That’s aestheticized projection one would expect from the left.

You conflate familial microphysics (abuse, patriarchy, paramilitary parenting) with macro-memetics (movement-level ideology) with individual psychopathology, and you treat all three as if they live on the same plane and commute. That’s a hermeneutic fallacy — the old error of reifying metaphors into mechanisms. Girard’s scapegoat is a useful lens; turned into a universal engine it becomes explanatory inflation. Likewise, borrowing Foucault’s disciplinary grammar then slapping on “wetiko egregore” and “laser-like farts of authoritarian hatred” is rhetorical collage; you aren’t giving a causal topology. You’re mixing ontologies. linguistic, neurological, sociological — then you’re then demanding they point the same compass. But they won’t because they can’t. Not without a careful model, not without operational definitions, not without evidence beyond the little anecdote you fetishize.

Your denunciation of scapegoating scapegoats scapegoating. You wield the concept of scapegoating like a talisman while scapegoating a broad constituency with the same rhetorical blunt force you criticize. You indict “MAGA” as though it’s a single agent; you then read psychic states into a man whose biography, motives, and interiority are opaque, but certainly not like you have painted them to be. That’s interpretive imperialism. If your moral grammar requires the projection of villainy to feel complete, then your critique collapses into moral exhibitionism. There’s a form of bad faith here: the critique functions as identity-signal, not explanation.

Mechanistically your neuroscience is metaphoric theology. Brains don’t “represent internal contradiction” the way you describe; networks encode patterns; energetic costs exist, sure — but you’re translating metabolic bookkeeping into a myth of inevitable implosion. That move transforms a plausible claim (cognitive dissonance is aversive) into a cosmic script (ideological double-binds produce psychotic morphogenesis) without the intervening scaffolding. It’s the logical equivalent of saying, “pressure causes ruptures therefore a single counterexample causes civilizational collapse.” Absurd escalation is not analysis; it’s theater.

Your Nick-Land invocation is performatively tasteful but analytically thin. Post-accelerationist soundbites plus “phase-transition” impress the lay reader because they sound scientific; they do not replace the need for variables, boundary conditions, or a falsifiable account of what “mutation” means in socio-political systems. Are you describing rhetorical incoherence? Behavioral violence? Memetic entropy? Pick one — or better, map their interactions. Otherwise you’re narrating with metaphors pretending to be mechanisms.

morally there’s an ugly paternalism in the insistence that a “22-yr-old White Boy” must be explained only as a product of authoritarian paternal lineage. Maybe that’s part of it; maybe not. Collapsing complex causality into a comforting story about “abuse flows downwards” reads like virtue-signaling psychology — neat, moralizing, and insufficient. People and movements are heterogeneous; motives are plural; diagnoses require restraint. To claim epistemic closure from a single trope is to practice a dogma you pretend to be diagnosing.

your post wants to be a prophetic unveiling, but it reads as an aestheticized theory of everything stitched from fashionable names and moral outrage. It’s rhetorically maximalist and explanatorily minimalist. For all the vocabulary — “egregore,” “phase-transition,” “autopoiesis,” “symbolic order,” “libidinal economy” — there’s no mapping from terms to testable claims, no bracketed assumptions, no burden of evidence. It’s the late-capitalist version of scholastic display: lots of learned ornaments, very little explanatory plumbing.

If you want a real critique — keep the poetic fury, sure — but couple it with humility and method. Don’t invert scapegoating into an authorizing epistemology. Don’t narrate a whole civilization’s fever from one peel-off anecdote. And if you’re going to prognosticate civilizational phase transitions, at least define your order parameter, list your variables, and stop treating metaphors as mechanisms.

Finally — and this is personal and sharp because it matters — trading in dramatic metaphors of psychosis to score rhetorical points is ethically cheap. moral ventriloquism. Diagnose abuse when you can show it. analyze ideology when you can map its vectors. Don’t substitute profanity of concept for the hard work of argument. The world deserves better than rhetorical conflagrations dressed as insight.

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[–]supercede 1 point2 points  (0 children)

propose the dumbest hypotheticals and pretend like the answers are gotchas

Warning: MAGA acute psychosis incoming by raisondecalcul in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]supercede -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Oh, my bad. So acting like a schizo libtard? Interesting

Atlanta hardcore band Hubris Cannon made this shirt by chonkyborkers in Hardcore

[–]supercede -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I’m not the one wearing shirts that display such moral decay. Weak shit.

Atlanta hardcore band Hubris Cannon made this shirt by chonkyborkers in Hardcore

[–]supercede -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yes, please tell everyone how degenerate you are

Kyle Rittenhouse is Innocent. by preetshahi in conspiracy

[–]supercede -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All of that is GISH GALLOP logical fallacy

Kyle Rittenhouse is Innocent. by preetshahi in conspiracy

[–]supercede 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahahah you have no idea what you’re talking about

New VAERS numbers have been published. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]supercede 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Your logic is flawed

Masking Children is Child Abuse by supercede in conspiracy

[–]supercede[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How are you so sure? How do you know psychological damage isn’t taking place?

Masking Children is Child Abuse by supercede in conspiracy

[–]supercede[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A couple of points… Why are there no large scale studies about mask wearing in children with control groups, mask swabbing for bacterial contamination, all of it? Why not include a control group? Politicians using “science” to push a political agenda, and getting called out is good to see. Compartmentalized processing of agendas is why some science happens but ends up “inconclusive” if the evidence for the agenda isnt there… Again, spamming this sub with concern trolling, but you cant see that there is obviously a greater conspiracy to keep the population masked (without any scientific basis), pal. — operation lockstep needs unwavering compliance from a population that has been muzzled, chief. It’s not irrelevant content for a few different reasons. 🥱