A few day’s ago most of you read my post titled “All these groups” where I talked about MGTOW, The Red Pill, Incel’s, and the Blackpill philosophy that have seemed to take over the smaller corner’s of the internet over the last couple of years. I talked about how I personally realized how all of these group’s not only indoctrinate young men but how it can turn into a toxic sludge in you’re soul and how a once great group has turned into a group of cultist that hate anyone who disagrees with them even slightly. Today I would like to take a moment to talk about the benefits of not aligning yourself with any sort of ideology at all and how it frees you mentally.

The internet is good at a lot of things, it’s good at providing you with limitless information, it’s good as a tool for communication with other like minded people (like this subreddit) and it’s a great tool for silly thing’s like entertaining ourselves and games and so on. However, the one thing the internet has become truly masterful at doing is selling us an identity powered by groups that want to project that identity onto it’s follower’s therefore strengthening the group and getting the word out to the rest of the world quicker and quicker. This is not a new concept and it’s not limited to groups like MGTOW or the RedPill. This includes political parties of all kind’s, philosophy’s of all kind’s and agenda’s of all kind’s.

The names of these groups may change over time and the political leaning’s of the country will swing in all sort’s of different directions and mirror the voice of the people and society at large (if you believe in democracy like I do) but the concept is always the same and the same message prevails over and over and over again “our group has the secret sauce that will make you more ________” our group will make you more attractive, our group will get you a bigger paycheck, our group will help you with the ladies, our group will teach you more about cars or give you peace or any other number of things. At it’s core this is just humanity being well….humanity. A quick look at the history books proves to us that there have been thousands of groups that claim to have the answer’s to maximizing our finite lives as human beings for a long, long time. This is how I choose to look at groups like the ones mentioned above nowadays. The internet has become a more complex medium of propaganda. I recently watched a documentary about WWII television and the delicate and sneaky ways in which the National Socialist Party (Nazi’s) had slowly turned the German people into fanatics for Adolf Hitler and his hatred of the Jewish people (of course not all citizens under the thumb on Nazi Germany at that time aligned with those views)

In my opinion the only difference between the propaganda of what we consider today as “old media” and the internet is that the internet let’s you choose what propaganda you would like to subscribe to. We basically live in a world where the internet and millions of forums created with billions of lines of code translated into 1s and 0s lets modern society run freely with whatever it is an individual is attempting to sell you. Gone are the day’s of a few channels on a television screen dedicated to this political party (a moral philosophy) or that political party now we can choose whatever we want, whenever we want, and with whatever devices we want, to access whatever propaganda we want for however long we want. Again, this comes in many forums, if you want to binged watch breaking bad all Saturday all the while whiffing you’re own farts then you can do that, if you want to spend all night on reddit tirelessly looking a memes and funny pictures or maybe you’re more a political guy you could spend you’re free moments watching the news or you’re favorite political youtuber than you are free to do so. In any case the principal for all content remains the same, you knowingly subscribe to what you feed you’re brain and as much as we don’t like to admit it this can play a role in how we behave and it can radically shape our beliefs and perceptions of the world.