They mean whatever the shrieking song of Popularity demands they mean, right?Â
Thatâs how it works. A psychopath, who is usually but not always a Communist, perceives something. Because they can perceive it, it must be about them and their status. Because their politics exist only as part of their status games, it becomes about their politics. Once they make this decision, Popularity steals away the ability to notice anything that contradicts it. Once smug Communists begin to sneer about how only idiot capitalist rubes can ever possibly engage with $THING and not see that the purpose of $THING is to fellate Communists about how right and good and high-status their politics are, you instantly and irrevocably lost the capacity to interpret anything about $THING as anything other than a reflection of their politics. You will, just as these psychopaths have done, look at something like Shadowrun â literally and explicitly made to be âWow! Cool street samurai!â â and say âOh, of course, anyone who sees this as anything other than fellating Communists is a stupid person who should be mocked for being low status!â You will take themes that have relevance to everyone, not just smug status-grubbing Communists, and say âThese themes are relevant only to smug status-grubbing Communists! They only exist to repeat the status-politics of smug status-grubbing Communists, and anyone who finds any relevance in them without being a smug status-grubbing Communist is a stupid person who should be mocked for being low status!â Everything cyberpunk used to be, everything people used to see in it, you will burn away so that it can be used by smug status-grubbing Communists. It will never, ever be able to be repaired. You will never, ever be able to even notice the thing you are doing.
Status games are invincible and irrevocable and inviolate. They rob you of your ability to envision anything apart from them. You think that the shrieking song of status politics is the only natural, neutral interpretation. You bend over backwards to interpret the words and actions of psychopaths who politicize everything as part of their status games, into the most favorable and neutral possible light. This process cannot be stopped, it cannot be fought, it cannot be reversed. You are helpless, as are all who are in the grip of status. It is impossible to take any action or effect any change and not be in the grip of status, so no positive change is ever possible. The march of entropy continues unabated. It consumed every single thing by exactly this process. Every single person, exactly like you, will cheer the coming of entropy, will do everything they can to aid the march of entropy, even as entropy destroys every single thing that is not a status game. Because Popularity has invincible, inviolate dominion over the human soul.
Only suicide will save us.
Only suicide will save us.
Only suicide will save us.