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People become really disgusting, and false and hollow, and they spread that like a disease among themselves. They are manipulative and insincere. And why not? It’s not like they live in a society that works for their benefit. Instead, they’re trying to hold on to the parts of a disintegrating mess that tells them they’re “equal” and then treats them like chattel. They have nothing to their name except some job, a car, and a place to live. Almost none of them believes that will mean anything because there’s always someone richer, so people start “posing” and using lifestyle choices to make themselves seem more important than everyone else.
There are many modern poses or justifications. The most obvious is the Steve Jobs style Californian messianic type, but equally devious are the hipsters, hippies, anarchists, soccer moms, Christian evangelicals and tree huggers who try to give their empty lives meaning through an ideology that allows them to drama-queen around in public and feel as if they matter. It gets even worse when you get on the internet. To make a long story short, I’m going to talk about one of these personae today, and that’s Tweebo.
They have several traits:
Low self-esteem leading to victimhood mentality.
Both social and practical incompetence which causes them to hate people who are succeeding in any form.
Vast self-pity leading to identification with other victims.
Cognitive dissonance “white knighting.”
Bored, slovenly modern existence causing interest in the plight of pity objects.
Absorption of massive doses of anarchist, Marxist and hippie faux ideology but underneath that strong tendencies toward consumerism.
General depression and dysfunction leading to a desire for uplifting images, memes and propaganda.
Hatred of their own origins and thus posturing, pretense and moral superiority and righteousness posing.
A tendency to be smarter than average, but not smart enough to realize that minor achievement does not make them Omnipotent Geniuses (this is the Dunning-Kruger effect of illusory superiority).
A fascination with all things twee, failing, pitiable, sad, miserable, lonely, weak, dying and dysfunctional.
A constantly repeated lie that if society would just get off their back they’d turn out great, somehow launching from their entry-level jobs in IT and food service to the top of the ladder.
It is the cult of those with low self-esteem and an ego in overdrive.