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irony is sort of a memetic vaccine; you ingest a weakened form of an idea, act it out w/o letting it control you, & in the process gain some resistance to it

irony poisoning is an autoimmune disorder; that same immune system now attacks your ability to sincerely hold beliefs
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RT @HopefulAbandon
"irony" is a firewall to protect you from psychic ddos - a priori rejection of all claims on your attention. learned behavior from earl…
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like any control system, a terminal state is undesirable & indicative of a feedback pathology

the memetic immune system seeks to maintain psychic homeostasis, ensuring your mostly work for you, rather than you for them

however, the optimal amount of memetic hijacking is nonzero

an over-eager immune system could likely prevent almost all infection, but at the cost of metabolic parasitism (leeching energy to serve its own goals), hampering the systems ability to function; which in this context would mean you're effectively unable to acquire new beliefs

compare this to a zealously militant corporate InfoSec department, one so pathologically concerned with ensuring a 0% failure rate that they make it borderline impossible for useful work to get done

cynicism re the relative dangers of the world is a slippery slope

stay earnest

another angle on this idea

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RT @pee_zombie
thorough memetic hijacking by an ideology can be an adaptive move in an environment saturated with infohazards (maladaptive memes)

comparable to a botnet which hardens each compromised host to protect its footholds
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