the worst psy-op of all time comes in many forms but reduces to "bad is good, actually"
The "bad is good, actually" psy-op and its religious roots
14 tweets · November 2023 · 397 likes · 47 retweets · read on Twitter
once you've admitted 0=1 into your value system, you can use that to prove all sorts of ridiculousness in math: 0+1=1+1 ➡️ 1 = 2 10¹=10² ➡️ 10 = 100 i¹=i² ➡️ i = -1 in values: 😳 suffering is pleasure, actually 🚩 cruelty is love, actually ☝️ bullshit is true, actually
there's one version of this that has its roots in certain strains of christianity, maybe particularly calvinism but I recently heard that it goes all the way back to Luther and the protestant reformation
but of course part of this goes to the root of christianity as a shift from 🔴 good vs bad — power is good, weakness sucks ("might makes right") to 🔵 good vs evil — law & love is good, selfishness sucks (righteousness)
and Nietzsche framed this in terms of master morality & slave morality (my fav source on this is this great long vid) youtu.be/aPhrTOg1RUk
and aspects of this are a psy-op BUT! the psy-op works in part because there's a way in which it IS god's will to shift from pure egocentric conquering into higher-order social systems (much as it is/was god's will to form planets, life, multicel life.,)
and then there's a sense in which aligning with god's will, the dao, the meta-protocol, the upward spiral... creates harmony and flow but don't confuse that for the will of the church or whatever (and the church would love to have you confuse those)
and in particular, @Morphenius and I recently noticed that a particularly pernicious flavor of psyop involves giving people attachment trauma and then calling disobedience from authority "disobedience of god" and then saying "that pain is sep from god"
@Morphenius he and I are still early stages of workshopping these ideas—more to come! this other tweet is definitely relevant, though might need revising (maybe because "separate from god/universe" is actually an illusion/psyop)
@Morphenius stepping back from the "this childhood pain you experienced because adults were cruel to you is actually a sign you're disconnected from god" psyop to the original topic of the bad=good psyop QC has a great thread on this here:
want to make the world a better place? don't get confused into thinking you should do so by inserting pain in the place you can be most certain it matters, for the theoretical benefit for others who may not even notice
oh here is an awesome thread exploring this from a personal morality perspective (and talking about how the psy-op gets you) whereas mine is more historical and spiritual
hmmmmm is this fact (insofar as it's true) upstream of or downstream of the "bad is good, actually" meme?
> too often in queer culture I get the sense of people wanting to tear it all down, to deny any distinction between good and bad, to forestall any examination of whether a choice is worth making so long as it transgresses
