Yesterday I wrote a Note about my Three Purges in reply to
.You can read about the purges in more detail here:
tl;dr: Yeah.
What’s the deal with hostility - with what’s called ‘enemy intent’ in East Asia?
Why do people - as the Japanese say - embrace hostility?1
I suspect attackers might feel insecure about their beliefs. The attacks would then be more about convincing themselves than others. Because yelling is not very convincing. No one yelled me out of my previous wrong positions.
There can also be an element of frustration. Late last year I snapped when talking to a Musk fan. Who kept their cool while I looked like a fool (even though I still believe I’m right). The background of that embarrassing episode is in “Coarse Correction”.
A pointless spectacle - not one I want to repeat.
But I did anyway. I detonated again last month.
From the Musk fan’s perspective, I discredited my stance both times since I acted crazy while all the voices in their infosphere are happy smiley DOGEy DOGEy DOGEy.
Even before I lost it, I had already lost in their eyes because I don’t have money. Unlike Musk, whom they believe to be a super genius who earned every cent with pure merit. A great businessman second only to Great Orange God Himself. Their Great White Hope.
The CONservatives I know love playing the Christ card, but they are Krass.
Krass
On Substack I’m pursuing the question of why so many people I know have submitted to the New Cross, the orange t.
They grasp the cross in one hand and crypto in the other.
They are Teknomen like their idol Musk. Little versions of him. Muskets.
They look up to Eeeelon, a man they have never met. They trust strangers more than someone like me they’ve known for years. Because those strangers appease their A-Factor. A for Authority.
Authority has its own brand of hostility.
Sherri wrote,
It's interesting how people will sometime attack the ones that they love, instead of the ones that they don't have the courage to address.
It is interesting how bloggers with cult followings can attack their own followers while leaving their enemies unscathed.
I used to follow an anti-CONvid blogger who abused their own paying fans for no obvious reason yet let someone promote the mainstream narrative ad nauseam on their site.
None of their fans objected to the unnecessary hostility. The sycophants loved the blogger, perhaps because the blogger was so brutal.
Decades earlier, I saw the same disgusting dynamic on a site of a famous comics creator.
And a decade before that, in high school.
A lot of people have a masochistic streak that I fail to grok. They seem to believe that if you’re mean, you must be my master.
In the case of the blogger, what Sherri said might apply: The blogger, unable to hurl their rage at, say, Fauci or Pfizer, turned on their own fans. Who took the invective without complaint. Without telling the blogger off, unsubbing, and ending their financial support.2 They looked weak to the blog bully who took that weakness as an invitation to keep flexing their meanness muscles. What a hideous circle. Left it years ago and never looked back.
I never want to be like that blogger supported by sadomasochist subscribers. I can’t respect such fans.
But maybe I’m just morally posturing because I can’t be like that blogger, period. My formulation was too simpleness. It takes more than meanness to be perceived as a master. I don’t have that more, and I don’t want it.
I do wish I had a different more. More time to explain why I don’t want that other more. And to reply to the rest of Sherri’s note. Maybe next time.
Until then - thanks, Sherri!
‘embrace hostility’ is a literal translation of Japanese 敵意を抱く tekii wo idaku ‘harbor hostility’, which sounds weird in its own way - what does hostility have to do with bodies of water? teki = ‘enemy’, i = ‘intent’, wo = indicates the object of the verb, idaku = ‘embrace’.