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Patric Gerard's avatar

Follow up tweet from Thuletide regarding the long March narrative. TL;DR the long March was happening long before Marcuse

https://twitter.com/th_l_t_d_/status/1647226678349815814?s=46&t=UruTx4o1ffYcL5Y4rfVMoQ

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I believe the standard DR version of what happened goes smth like this: There always were people with woke tendencies. Certain events in the 20th cent. gave them a leg up in the battle of ideas, just as their numbers were naturally increasing due to dysgenics. Like every "tribe" they want to dominate, so they look at Gramsci and Adorno and say, "hmm... those are some good ideas!". They start acting in concert towards an ideological goal as their classical liberal colleagues lack direction. (I'd add a tidbit here about STEM gaining popularity in academia among conservatives around this time, at the expense of the useful stuff). The lefty types get most all the top positions in relevant fields; 115 IQ students can't think critically hence they get "infected", some of them become journos, teachers, comic book writers, council members, etc, etc spread the infection to the troglodytes, et voila: today!

How is it relevant to any of that how many books Marcuse sold!? He might have been read by 1,000, 100, or 10 college professors; as long as their students got the message and knew to repeat it in order to appear smart, then that was enough!

I don't remember Woodley ever advancing that his theory excludes the notion of conscious human drive (even one driven by pure ideological belief) as a factor in history. His idea is that spiteful mutants use *ideology* to damage the group. There's no real reason for the conflict you see between "the mind parasite" and "Pareto". Sure, you can argue about prevalence, but only someone as thick headed as you or AA would propose an exclusive role for either. Autistic rigid thinking?

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