Once you've had an actual red pill1, once the initial stage is complete, there's a strange complication, challenge maybe, that can be tough to deal with and often leads to being blackpilled. We can call it Seasonal Secular Reevaluation Impulse.
Being a postmodern occidental means retaining an unprecedented amount of Opinions; on food, on weather, on entertainment, on raiment, on categories of distinction that don't actually exist like ork v. space marine, and much else besides. This mass of opinion is compromised of repeated Experience + Discussion, and both elements must be present for the bedrock opinion to form and persist. So there are regions of the globe, cities in your country, and food preparation methodologies that you have a formative opinion on purely because you experienced it once then talked about it.
This mass of opinion is not an identity, but it can definitely color an identity, and the color of one's identity often leads one to be sorted, or to self sort, into groups. It's not like you're thinking about all of these opinions all of the time, but if a directly related or even tangential subject comes up that touches on one them, it is often the case that you will register an opinion in a definite way. For me this expresses itself in "yeah I've seen that one, it's a good movie." After I was truly redpilled, it took me a while to realize that that particular slate of opinions was completely worthless. It's not that every movie I had ever seen in my youth and early adulthood was bad, it is just that I share so little in terms of taste with the man that I was that I can't trust his opinion on pretty much anything.
Unless you work in the creative arts, this isn't a huge deal. But it does mean you have to re-review movies you thought you liked if you want to keep recommending them, or shilling for them as the case may be. And if you make the mistake of diving back into what your now changed brain still considers "classic," and you are sufficiently indoctrinated in the new mode of thinking2, you will start to see the ungodly amounts of propagandistic swill that was shoveled into entertainment for a very long time.
After something like this happens, it is very easy to begin to question everything. If that kind of programming happened to you without you noticing it, what else was going on right before your lying eyes that your brain didn't pick up on? This can be a pitfall for many, and they often become too willing to believe in the alternative explanation of anything. It is completely forgivable, as there are so many disgusting lies sewn into the fabric of our nation and culture. At the same time, it doesn't mean that the rambling crackhead3 on the corner is suddenly right about everything.
But it is also the case that there very well may be things that seem crazy, things that seem utterly unbelievable from the materialist-modernist perspective, that are actually true, or accurate enough for the purpose of modeling reality. I have found that one of those things is DEMONS.
That term is evocative. Our art and culture is suffused with it, and mostly but not totally in entertainment and diversionary activities. One day out of the year, it is perfectly natural to see everyone from small children to geriatrics aping the forms of the demonic. It is often used as a term of endearment or even complement, particularly when describing artistic works and activities. From the materialist-modernist perspective, it's just another colorful word we have retrieved from an archaic and esoteric past to help our writing or commentary stand out.
Anyone who is steeped in the arcane can see how incredibly dangerous and terrifying this is. You don't have to dig very deeply into demonology to discover that playing pretend with demons is literally indistinguishable from being deadly serious about them4. Of course, if you have perfect faith in the "fact" that demons don't exist5, can't exist6, then this all sounds like crackhead mutterings. At the same time , any reasonable and logical adult can accept that you believing in something or not has precious little to do with its actual existence. This unassailable fact alone should cause alarm bells for anyone who is looking around and seeing all of the symbols and sentiment that revolves around the demonic.
Thus, it could very well be the case that all of the light-hearted and diversionary use and acceptance of the vestiges of the demonic are actually lending immense power and influence to literal demons7. This is not a stretch for those who accept that the immaterial is directly connected to the material. But what about people who keep those two things bifurcated? I forcefully assert that you don't have to believe in demons or demonology to derive utility from the body of thought. In fact, it is a handy tool for understanding why things are the way they are, and in particular why people do the things they do.
Consider abortion. There is a perfectly rational way to contend with this phenomenon and come away 100% certain it is a bad thing. Put another way, you don't have to be a religionist to acknowledge that industrialized liquidation of the preborn has dramatic and deleterious ramifications for society as well as the individual. This is a 1:1 overlap with the demonological modeling of the evil of abortion. You can use the materialist approach or the immaterialist approach, and arrive at the exact same place.
The question becomes, where else, and in what other categories, does the materialist/ immaterialist duality come into play?
As this term becomes ever more deeply embedded in the popular lexicon, it becomes untethered from its original meaning. I will meme just as hard as the most retarded of us, but for the record: a redpill is a fact, body of facts, or analysis based on a fact/body of facts that, once internalized, leaves a man forever altered. He no longer has the choice to go forward with priors previously held, and must either engage in massive, and deleterious, self-delusion, or grimly accept that he must reconstruct his worldview from new first principles.
If you get redpilled, and nothing changes in your habits, preferences, or perspective, you weren’t redpilled.
I miss crackheads, fent zombies are a poor replacement.
If this seems farfetched, just insert Nazis and run the experiment again. “Ha ha hey guys, what if we all dress up in Hugo Boss uniforms and march around with torches and burn fake books and pretend to harass a made up group we pretend to not like? Ha ha, but just for fun, not for real or anything, it’s for Hitlerween.”
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