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I think you have to consider the type of person who would even consider doing something along these lines. If you’re willing to uproot your life, perhaps lose your career, abandon your community for any cause, you are absolutely not a casual person. Most savory people are rooted enough into their own community that they’d rather stay put, live quietly, and perhaps support the cause quietly, but not in a way that a hard core supporter would.
Ideological possession in any form tends to be a symptom of some sort of unresolved mental issues. It’s why even if I don’t agree with JBP politically (or at least not all the time), I absolutely agree that you should not be politically active until you’re in a mentally stable and healthy place. It becomes a person’s entire life because it’s not about the political issue, it’s about basing your identity on something that gives you the thrill of moral superiority, a cause to base your self worth on, and a virtuous reason to treat others badly. Such people will be unsavory, no matter how good the cause itself might be.
What if your entire society is ideologically possessed and you're trying to escape that to return to the norm?
If being disgusted with the moral order of things is automatically a mental illness, then even the most insane of moral orders must be conformed to and O'Brien was right to call Winston insane.
I find this a peculiar view to espouse in a country founded by dissidents and where there's a myriad of sucessful cults started as voluntary exile from the ways of the world.
Seems to me a natural and healthy part of the human psyche, actually.
I don’t mean just “disgusted by mainstream ideology”, I mean the kind of person who would uproot and move to an enclave specifically to forward an ideology. Escaping woke doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to move to a Nazi enclave. You could do equally as well moving to a rural town in a deep red state. Almost everyone in rural Mississippi is anti-woke, and a good number of them would be seen by city dwellers as racist. They are also fairly normal people who haven’t made being anti-woke a personality.
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It might be healthy for the species at an evolutionary level, while still being bad news for your life prospects at the individual level (and for the prospects of a community if all its members are pre-selected for abnormally high scores on that trait).
Nah It's all good, normies don't have the wherewithal to make stuff or trade against consensus, I'm going with John Galt on this one.
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