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…
https://twitter.com/HopefulAbandon/status/1369903216142471171
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
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1347600065066631171
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