It doesn't matter how long you make them read Lenin and break rocks in the gulag, the second you let them out they'll see an AI generated meme from a CIA holdout posting from a bunker somewhere and immediately revert to being a burgerbrained fash.

I think we need to just dump them on an island somewhere and put them under continuous naval blockade and internet blackout till they revert to a Hunter gather society.

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[–] semioticbreakdown@hexbear.net 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

baudrillard moment, theyre living in a fundamentally different constructed reality that has no relation to the real. its not about intelligence, its about subcultural narrative and the willful acceptance of a simulated reality that appeals to them on a fundamental level. their identity has been reconstructed around consumption of particular strains of media that appeal to their fantasy. They choose deliberately to re-enter the fascist Matrix where reality and imagination have lost any boundary, and if I had to guess I'd point to that as the main reason they love AI slop. stupidity is the wrong word, but burgerbrained is right. The burger, fries, the Amerikkkan flag have all become fetishes not to a superstitious religious population, but to a population that has embraced religious superstition and anti-intellectualism on the grounds of consumptive identity.

e: also I think they could be re-educated, I dont think its impossible

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can re-educate but the process for doing so isn't teaching them marx, it's making them hate the constructed consumptive identity.

You may be able to teach them marx later. But eliminating the constructed reality and inoculating them to falling back into it is a prerequisite beforehand.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I misread the title as

I genuinely think American CHUDs are too stupid for self-reflection

and clicked through with the intention of writing a whole thing about how its not a matter of intelligence, but that there's just not much public examples of self-reflection in society. It's a behavior you learn from seeing peers and parents do, and we're (at least) several generations into a negative feedback loop.

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

its not about intelligence, its about subcultural narrative and the willful acceptance of a simulated reality that appeals to them on a fundamental level. their identity has been reconstructed around consumption of particular strains of media that appeal to their fantasy

I keep trying to tell libs this when they keep bringing up how "stupid" maga people are and how the "education system has failed."

Very clearly, they have an ideological commitment to something they feel benefits them.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 6 points 17 hours ago

By removing the source of the superbasis genesis, many of the more beging and salvageable chuds will cease clinging to such behaviors.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 8 points 19 hours ago

stupidity is the wrong word, but burgerbrained is right. The burger, fries, the Amerikkkan flag have all become fetishes not to a superstitious religious population, but to a population that has embraced religious superstition and anti-intellectualism on the grounds of consumptive identity.

One must never forget, burger communion is ruinous

[–] awth13@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago

I like your username (and you, I think).