Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Clown World Meme as Resolution of Tension

The term "clown world" grew organically on social media over the past couple of years. It's a reaction to the steady stream of insane stories about "left wing" nut jobs and ideological craziness that's completely out of touch with reality. A really good example of that is the recent story about a professor who claimed, "White People Own Time" or some such nonsense.

Over the course of weeks and months of similar stories circulating social media and YouTube, people start to see them as all the same. The natural reaction is contempt.

The victim olympics and the righteous outrage tantrums of a dimwit like Cortez are contemptible. As a sort of consensus understanding (see post on social intelligence) emerges it can be encapsulated in a meme. I think the clown world pepe "Honkler" is an indication that we'll see "white flight" (really sane people flight) instead of a confrontation. The discredited and contemptible institutions are going to lose support.

Hollywood, corporate America, universities, the consumer culture, etc... etc... are probably going to be turned upside down in years to come.

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