Subversion
Nyan Sandwich has a cunning plan:
Proposal: a secretly NR-run hatefact-respinning and overton-window-lefting blog.
— Nyan Sandwich (@WolfTivy) March 13, 2014
Sister Sarah (@sarahdoingthing) suggests the “hard part is to be somehow different from actual real leftist sites …”
@sarahdoingthing No. Point is to be a perfectly normal leftist site, but secretly an experimental apparatus for Cthulology
— Nyan Sandwich (@WolfTivy) March 13, 2014
Partly because there can simply never be enough of this, but also for other reasons, this idea is perfectly delicious. It would be like a Sokal tar-baby, spreading sticky black paranoid confusion throughout the redoubts of the enemy. To make this work, however, would require a very exceptional type of genius (of exactly the kind demonstrated in the Shea case). Judging the precise extent and flavors of absurdity that the left will endorse — or at least find credibly non-parodic — is a rare and delicate art, especially since they have to be taken to the very edge, teetering prominently into gulfs of roaring madness. In addition, since effectiveness would correspond closely with persistence, the work involved would be immense.
If anyone is embarking on this, I do not (of course) want to know — Omertà .