Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 1

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Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here ^[2])

There is an unfortunate bias on the dissident Right in general toward focusing their efforts and techniques on logic in the narrower sense: that is, on calmly and methodically pointing out the internal contradictions and illogic of the enemy’s ideology and arguments. While there is nothing wrong with this per se, the problem is that most of those whom we, as the system’s outsiders, hope to reach with our arguments are mostly within the enemy’s city, kept in by walls of fear pertaining to job loss, deplatforming, social ostracism, and so on. Our intellectual firepower alone has little to no chance of penetrating these. We may see the mangled remains of their ideology strewn before them, but until we can find a way to blow holes in those walls, we will never reach the majority of those who are in the enemy’s world, but not of it.

As we currently have no way to deal with the threat of job loss and have only a partial ability to deal with deplatforming (the two thickest, strongest parts of the walls), I suggest we focus on attacking the weaker portions — namely, those involving social ostracism and stigma. Not only were these parts weaker to begin with, but our enemies have themselves further weakened them by classifying more and more people as being beyond the pale and continuously increasing the insanity of what normies are expected to believe in order to be deemed socially acceptable.

Our adversaries have in fact refined embarrassment. It’s far, far less humiliating to believe — or at least pretend to — that all racial groups have equal abilities on average than that men can become women, and vice versa, just by thinking about it, or that people should be fired and possibly even jailed for using the wrong pronouns and so on. As a result, they have left themselves open to us breaking down the walls that they use to prevent normies, and even many old-school liberals, from switching to our camp.

As with fear and anger, embarrassment is a double-edged emotional sword. As a holdover from the days when our ancestors still had the social cohesion needed to survive and evolve into our current state, it can help to make or break our current civilization. It helps to make it when they can exploit the herding instinct to keep those who lack the intellectual capacity to trace the Christian order’s deep moral and philosophical foundations to fight to maintain it nonetheless. It helps to break it if it serves to herd a people, under the direction of evil elites who wish to destroy Christian civilization for their own ends, off an economic, cultural, and moral cliff.

Let it not be thought that, in our current age of madness, embarrassment has lost its potency, for human beings still possess the same basic drives, and they continue to operate in the same fashion even in extremities, whether circumstantial, psychological, or both.

If you don’t believe this, consider the case of ordinary, yet perhaps shallow, people as opposed to outright psychopaths. What do shallow men marry women for? Looks and sex. What do shallow women marry men for? Money and status.

You may call such people soulless, but they at least still fall within the realm of the normal, unlike soulless killers. When it comes to the latter, ask yourself: Why did the most prolific serial killers do what they did? For the men among them, such as Ted Bundy or the Green River Killer, it was mostly for rape; for the women, such as Belle Gunness or Dorothea Helen Puente, it was usually for easy money (though jealousy played a role in many cases, regardless of the killer’s gender).

And as far as circumstantial extremes go, consider the literally world history-changing power of female nagging and shaming that was on display at the Battle of the Yarmuk. When Khalid ibn al-Walid’s Muslim army, greatly outnumbered by the Christian Byzantines, saw its left wing begin to collapse, it seemed that all was lost for the Rashidun forces. But when the retreating soldiers fled back to camp, they were greeted by their irate wives. The women shamed them so fiercely that they returned to the battle, and this stabilized the left wing enough for al-Walid to press on and win, making — after a few further efforts — the entire Levant part of the Rashidun Caliphate’s Muslim empire. This is a rather literal rebuke to anyone who would quip that a little embarrassment can’t change the world. The Muslim forces of the time brought women along for just this purpose — as well as to do the cooking work.

Embarrassment and/or humor are truly forces to be reckoned with at any time and under any circumstances, though their effect on events is not likely to be as sudden and drastic as at Yarmuk. Most of the time it is slow and subtle, though no less powerful for that, as my own personal experience can attest. We will examine this more closely in the next part.

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