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Not to belabor the details, but one famous conservative influencer cheated with another, leaving behind two devastated spouses and miscellaneous alienated children. This prompted a great deal of self-examination on the Right about how many were so easily fooled.

After the required span of hours for shock, the messages started: we are all sinners; judge not lest you be judged; no one is perfect. Lots of crosses got posted and messages about how we were all forgiven in Jesus or something of that nature.

The problem with that line of thinking is that it assumes we are all the same. That is, that all sins are equal in impact, and all people commit equivalent sins, when common sense and daily experience show us the opposite. People differ widely.

Lumping us all in with the failures exists, like unions and Communism, to make the failures seem legitimate, when in fact if you removed the most egregious failures, life would improve immediately as would our prospects for the future.

We are seeing the behavior of people who should not walk among us. They are mentally broken, whether by defect of intelligence or sanity or both, and their behavior shows that they are somewhere on the spectrum of selfishness between narcissistic abuse and sociopathy.

Then again, this should not surprise those of us who live in the conditions of demotism; when it comes to manipulating the opinions of others, sociopaths always win because they are single-mindedly focused on the manipulation and not worried about consistency.

This means that your influencers are always going to be sociopaths, and they do not stop doing sociopath stuff when they go home. In fact, there they are not observed, so the behavior may get even worse.

Influencers are created by their market. This is The Metallica Problem: over time, anything will adapt to what its market wants not what it does better (consider how Leftism fits within this frame as well).

When you have lots of sweaty, obese, mouth-breathing neckbeard NEET Reddit simps floating around the internet, they will send money to “pretend whores” with whom they will never sleep, just for the ability to claim they have some connection to something desired in life.

Soon, any political movement that wants to succeed will need attractive young women to front it, just like beer and automobile companies do, and these will — even if they do not start this way — turn into OnlyFans models who like tradwifing, small government, and low taxes.

Worse, any woman who gets on the internet will find that people are curious for her picture. Innocently, she posts it, and now there are lots of random males floating around her profile, which means that she can no longer be a voice among many but has a position of power.

Even if she does not start as an OnlyFans tradwife, she will end up there, because now she is competing with other voices for her power. They are all tradwifing and posting FEE and Chronicles articles, so she does the same.

This is The Pantera Problem, which is that everything competes with whatever succeeded in the past in aggregate, resulting in a slow and steady dumbing down and hybridization into mush of anything distinctive.

To track this as it happens in real life, masses of simps with money to burn results in OnlyFans whores, and then, all other women who want to be popular are thrust into this model. They do it for the profit, competition, and to meet a free market need.

People always said that with libertarianism, the problem is that over time entropy wins as everything gets dumbed down to be McDonald’s and Pantera. Duncism (I just made that up) wins over realism and intelligence because easier is more popular.

This is similar to what happens in anarchy. In an anarchic society, the first generation is all peace and love, but in the second, the free riders emerge. Eventually they take over and order everyone else around because nothing says fungible livestock like anarchism.

Conservatives exist for this reason. We agree with libertarians about economics, and with anarchists on the simple idea that non-harmful activities should be left alone, but we also acknowledge the civilization question.

That question involves how to create a society and make it resistant to decay and downfall of the type that has destroyed every civilization on Earth, such as Egypt, Rome, Athens, Tenochtitlan, and Angkor Wat. They all die from the war of the have-nots versus haves that is innate to humanity like our gut microbiome.

(Technically, everyone has the same last meal: their own corpses. The gut microbiome, part of your digestive system, breaks free from its intestinal confinement and munches on the first nearby source of nutrition, namely the rest of you.)

Conservatives are ends-over-means people; they realize that if something is the right thing to do, it is moral, intellectual, and leadership cowardice to do anything else, especially compromise. We are not cuddly hippies nor suited rationalizers. We are a war machine for sanity.

However, almost no one can understand the basic idea that the Left is egalitarianism because of its individualism, and that such thinking brings about and is worsened by attempts to control it with means-over-ends thinking. The Right is order, the Left is “me first and you pay for it.”

To our perpetual vexation, this means that communicating what conservatism “is” seems very difficult. Saying that conservatives conserve Order and Leftists promote “equality” (a fiction) is too complicated for most people.

As a result of that situation, we find ourselves dependent on people who publicize the issue of the day and keep the actual agenda of conservatism murky in order to have a “big tent” of people who have no idea what they believe. This is a fragile system.

We received a wake-up call, and it is to stop trusting social media to produce spokespeople for us. Like the Left, we need people of real intellect to show the theory and provable results of our ideals. We do not need more entertainers because those trained to lie will lie to us.

Tags: civilization question, duncism, have-nots-versus-haves, influencers, social media, the metallica problem, the pantera problem