Why is it so threatening to them that some combination of the white-male-Christian-suburban demographic is making half-joking, half-serious noises about secession? I thought they were blood-sucking parasites. I thought the red states were supposed to be undereducated cesspools of backwardness that took more Federal money than they gave in taxes. The answer, of course, as we know, lies in the fact that we should disaggregate states down to their county-level demographics, and surprise, surprise… we find that the real fault lines fall along race, religion and culture. But the Cathedral acolytes can’t follow us down this path of logical explanation. They can’t say that the difference between militant Black Panther separatists and this nascent conservative white suburban separatism is an orders-of-magnitude increase in efficiency and effectiveness. Like dogs, they can only vaguely sense the moving shadows, and bark indiscriminately.

This sort of paranoid, inarticulate hyper-vigilance is also found in other places, like the poorly-named Southern Poverty Law Center, which constantly monitors militias and anything else that smells vaguely of organized resistance against the Cathedral.

What makes it amusing is not that they’re wrong – if a challenge to the Cathedral ever comes, it will grow out of this nexus of successionist, Tea-Party-voing, evangelical, heavily-armed militia demographic. It’s that they can’t coherently state the threat without also admitting to the oppressive, Orwellian nature of the Cathedral. And so they can only sputter impotently about evil Confederate racists. Imagine their terror if neoreaction ever does organize into a coherent force.

Hilarious indeed…

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/14/walmart-shelves-in-louisiana-cleared-during-ebt-outage/

Oh wait that was the police who didn’t arrest anyone.

It is their apocalypse.

I think it’s two things:

1. The echo-chamber intellectual-enclave-ghettoization, niche-tailored marketing, economic model of the internet has evolved to a new intensity level. It’s never going back. The whole idea is provocative click-bait that encourages emotionally impulsive sharing and viral breakout for the whole 4 hours of the twitter-cycle. The model works best when your target audience is provocation trigger-homogenous (which is assisted by the self-sorting selection mechanism).

It’s also reliably good when it follow the Sports-team tribalism model, where you can always get people equally riled up with the same recycled articles about how our side is goodness and light and hip and cool and smart and sexy and their side is the Mordor Orcs manipulated by Ringwraiths and a few Saurons here and there. Trash talk is too fun not to market on that basis. It also helps if people self-segregate in real life and actually come to believe that nonsense. A lot of bad blood and different versions of utopia you can only achieve in a negative-sum game to capture the throne helps too.

That’s the market, and like you said, as bad as it may be, no one can fight it without force, which, thankfully for us, no one is willing to apply to the problem.

2. Beyond clickbait and ridiculous but somehow-irresistible absurdly contrarian slatepitches, even the more ‘smart and serious’ posters on progressive blogs have become increasingly unreal, unhinged, disconnected, and untethered.

Beyond the ‘reality apartheid’ that comes from not interacting intimately with 90% of the human population, I think in a way it’s a symptom of triumph and confidence in ascendant power. The domination is so complete that progressives no longer feel they have to grant any deference to the best counterarguments to their enlightened agenda. They can simply deny them a priori without feeling any need to debate or demonstrate, as if ‘The Science is Settled!’ and it was all addressed satisfactorily in the past.

The ‘the science is settled!’ attitude to political ideology is the ultimate inoculation against reasoning and cementer of closed-mindedness. You don’t have to have an open-mind or reason anything for yourself, even though you claim to hold those values in esteem. While you can’t express your beliefs in terms of arguments of logic and evidence, your tribe has assured you that some of your coreligionists did so in the past and ‘won’, so you are perfectly justified in feeling confident about the foundations of your belief.

I’m guessing the Church did a lot of this too.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/10/12/washington-d-c-is-crying-wolf-yet-again-but-no-one-is-listening/2/

Because of the white privilege!