"Woke mind virus" is how billionaires describe the idea that you should give even the tiniest bit of a shit about how your actions will affect other people.
@seldo @vecrumba it’s just a good agitprop device to keep the rage & conspiracy machine going
@seldo Why are ultra wealthy white men so angry all the time?

@kyozou @seldo
Because they thought their wealth would make them universally loved, like the toadies around them do.

But instead, they must...gulp...explain themselves.

@kyozou @seldo same as non-wealthy white men … Fox News virus
@kyozou @seldo It is either anger or fear. The fear is they do not deserve the wealth and influence they have so people will take it all back.

@seldo As usual there's a solid dose of psychological projection going on …

They know they love to do the whole "mind virus" thing (NFTs, blockchain, AI, celebrity boxing matches) and, naturally, they assume they have big angry enemies who do exactly the same crazy shit and are trying to stop them winning at life

@seldo if giving a damn about other people and humanity is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

@seldo
"Woke mind virus"? It's just called empathy.

Greed has rotted these people's brains.
#PeopleOverProfit.

@seldo memes, DNA of the soul

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Billionaires can't accept #empathy - that invisible enemy not useful to their market logic
...brings folk together, joining Unions, reading books, not needing guns, no longer in fear fighting their tiny corners... #foxnews #voteblue

@seldo Kind of funny, coming from someone acting woke

@seldo I mean, the enlightenment did have its initial "hot zones" of a handful of coffee shops, and spread fairly exponentially to slave revolts and democratic revolutions, to become the world's dominant philosophy, spreading through contact.

If viruses sometimes made people healthier and more productive, it'd be a pretty solid characterization...

@seldo @tante it is an anti-euphemism for „conscience”.
@seldo And that phrase is not a sign of a self-styled political "independent," but rather a dictation-taking #Republican bot.
@seldo As far as I can tell, only one billionaire and his fan mob have ever used that phrase. I could be wrong, but I spent a couple of hours trying to run it down a month or two ago.
@seldo Although on two seconds' further thought it's clear that even if they don't use the phrase, they damn well use that mode of thinking. And they might be using the phrase, too, and I didn't find it.
@seldo Are all billionaires describing themselves as anti-woke, or is it just Elon, Thiel, and company?
@seldo To be fair, that's a hard concept to grasp when you're the kind of sociopath that you have to be to become a billionaire
@seldo ‘woke mind virus’ is the fly swatter that embarrassed people use to swat away shame, so they can live with their actions.
@seldo Agree completely. I just realized it’s also a funny three-word-phrase to describe language itself…

@seldo It seems like there’s a pretty big racial element to it as well.

It’s an attempt to whitewash systemic racism and impeach anyone who dares make the obvious observation that our systems discriminate against Black people

@seldo what about millionaires BTW?
@julienw @seldo These days being a millionaire is no great feat. It could happen to anyone. But having a million dollars is still plenty for a life of comfort...
@toxtethogrady I love it when millionaires point fingers to billionaires. I'm not so sure it can happen to anyone, really...
@toxtethogrady I consider myself very lucky to be in the 100k€ per year. I'm probably part of the top 1% in France.
@julienw And with all the social services France has, compared to the US, that 100k probably goes pretty far...
@seldo It’s also the bigots being called out.
@bjn @seldo Their response is to call anti-bigotry bigoted. And anti-racism racist...
@seldo We call the opposite "selfishness". Ayn Rand knew long ago that selfishness was a non-starter with most people, so she had to write a tome called "The Virtue of Selfishness" to explain it. But Holden Caulfield still thought she was a phony...
@seldo it's amazing how much western capitalist society has depended on the majority of people not caring about the consequences of anything
@seldo Unfortunately it’s not just billionaires. It’s also fans of billionaires, and wannabe billionaires.
@seldo because all billionaires are sociopaths

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Because empathy is their invisible enemy....gets folk thinking, maybe we should join a Union, see a play, don't need a gun, give a hand. Nasty hostile environments advance economic policy...create the fear that corner folk in their holes, soak up #foxnews, MY EMPIRE above all!

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Slavoj Žižek needs to hear this