How to become normal again

In a previous post I labelled the gullible consumers of mainstream propaganda “Normies.”

Though complimenting them first and foremost as “intrinsically good,” this is untrue.

Once upon a time all of mankind was “intrinsically good”, endowed with the virtue of justice. (Not “social justice.”) But our goodness is no longer intrinsic because our nature has been affected by sin (an awesome term). Our sin is a state, not an act.

(Our birthright is not our fault! This is so hopeful!)

What is our choice—and by extension our fault—is how we choose to live. “Normies” are not intrinsically good; they are foolish sinners, powerless tools used by politicians and unknowingly inclined to an evil that is making them weak and compliant, falsely believing it to be virtuous. They are deprived of justice because they have believed the lies. They live in a state of ignorance, and therefore sin.

In a democratic country, normies appear to drive the course of history by “electing” elites who claim to serve their best interest. (And there are lots and lots of normies willing to do this.) In another political system, normies would be emaciated slaves. In modern America, they are fat slaves.

(Once upon a time in America normal people were (cautiously) honest about their political biases with their acquaintances, and at the end of the evening everyone could laugh and laugh and laugh because they all secretly knew that development of society can never be subject to rational human control!)

This a spiritual wound, but spiritual wounds can also heal. To become a normal person again, normies need first to think/ask the following:

1) My political opinion is not my identity because I am not a politician

2) Politics is not a game that I have the money to play anyway

3) What is my political opinion based on? Vague platitude, or edifying research? Personal biases, or historical facts? (Sometimes biases are based in fact!)

Eventually, some normies will soften and become normal people again. (Forced to wear masks everywhere slows the inevitability of this softening, as the normies are unpaid enforcers of the mask mandate. State endorsed fear is extremely powerful.)

The conversion from normie to normal person is one of slow humility that starts with the sentiment: "Maybe I can learn something from someone I think I am supposed to disagree/hate."

Normal people: become trustworthy to your day-to-day normies and then correct them in conversation whenever safe to do so and not when they are in groups of two or more. Do not let yourself become outnumbered. 

Normies: keep your sins to yourselves like the rest of us normal people have done since Adam and Eve committed the first one. If you are going to reveal them, prepare to be corrected. 

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Go to any music video on YouTube and you will see a recurring comment.

This band sucks/This music sucks/The fans have sucky taste!

‘Don’t feed the trolls’ is an adage seen around the internet, and yet you will see the recurring replies from the fans:

If you don’t like the music, you don’t have to listen. And you don’t have to leave a comment. We don’t need your opinion.

But these commenters weren’t vicious trolls, or even subtle trolls. They didn’t leave a sadistic comment with the purpose of receiving pleasure from the various pained responses of the fans.

They were simply opinionated viewers using the comments section for precisely what it was designed for. Under the anonymity of the internet there is no repercussions for hurting an invisible fan’s feelings.

YouTube was first designed to host videos, the definition of which some users have interpreted to mean songs with a still image attached.

The comments section is similarly designed for leaving comments. And if YouTube doesn’t have the resources to censor “hateful speech” against “bad music” then a fan can leave a comment telling the hater not to leave comment. The back-and-forth makes the comments section fun, if brain damaging, to read.

Now, comments are supposed to be “nice” and “respectful,” but those platform inflicted guidelines are as subjective as the worth of the video itself, and typically only apply to videos of politically controversial subject matter. YouTube can remove user flagged comments, but once it begins policing comments on its own it cannot be unbiased; human bias is the soul of media.

The comments section puts the social in media. It shouldn’t go away, and it shouldn’t be policed for “hater speech” by YouTube. Flagging should be reserved for bots and spam.

The haters are stating their honest opinions for no reason other than they have a place to put it. And the fans are responding because a conversation is two sided.

Haters and fans are not critics, and their analysis is usually based on their personal lives anyway, because music makes listeners feeel

This indisputable truth from the fans to the haters was the best way to extinguish the stupidest kind of debate on subjectivity. And its actually very useful advice.

Don’t like it? Fine. That’s your right. But don’t dwell on what you hate so much that you waste your own time by entering enemy territory to tell fans that you hate what they like.

No minds will ever be changed.

Additionally, don’t waste more than a moment thinking about it unless you are willing to think why

And even then, do the fans really want to know what internetuser112 thinks?

Personally, I don’t think music needs a comment section. Music is subjective noise. Everyone is going to have a different opinion. But a video is a video, and unless the uploader disables comments, the comment section will contain the unsolicited opinions of haters and the defense from the fans.

I never thought about the haters. I knew the music I liked sucked. I liked it anyway.