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Cassian [main]
@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

I've definitely had some massive downer reply guys [gn] come into my mentions on here who fit this description, so here you go.

Source: https://embervoices.tumblr.com/post/736279158137683968/a-little-advice-from-someone-studying-extremist/amp

[Edit: Better link, and hashtags.]

#politics #extremism

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User brainstatic, Nov 25, 2018.

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way. 

User embervoices reblogs, Dec 10, 2023.

If the solution to your problems sounds like "we need a blank slate" it's a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is "burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out".

That's not problem solving. It's barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn't just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.

Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.

Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to "us good, them evil; kill them."
Tumblr screenshot. User brainstatic, Nov 25, 2018. A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way. User embervoices reblogs, Dec 10, 2023. If the solution to your problems sounds like "we need a blank slate" it's a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is "burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out". That's not problem solving. It's barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn't just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates. Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly. Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to "us good, them evil; kill them."
Tumblr screenshot. User brainstatic, Nov 25, 2018. A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way. User embervoices reblogs, Dec 10, 2023. If the solution to your problems sounds like "we need a blank slate" it's a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is "burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out". That's not problem solving. It's barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn't just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates. Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly. Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to "us good, them evil; kill them."

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