The world was built for Normies by Midwits, and we just live here.
A Brief History of the Internet Accompanied by an Elitist Rant
On the Edge of Chaos and Order
Across the 90s and into the aughts, big-brain Andies (BBAs) started gathering in online forums where they could be free from the influence of the technology-illiterate. Far from the unsophisticated eyes of unimaginative normies and socially-compliant midwits, BBAs were openly able to discuss the most socially unacceptable ideas imaginable. Questions completely shunned and rejected by the post-1960s egalitarian “gospel” were able to be commonly discussed in those online spaces (questions such as “which race makes the best slaves?” and other fascinating discussion topics). This was the golden age of the internet, a time where BBAs were able to edge-post in peace without fear of reprisal.
Towards of the end of the Facebook era of the Internet Age (2014-ish), normies and midwits were now securely situated in mainstream social media web platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, etc.) but were beginning to encounter the…unsavory BBA-style content that had previously been withheld from them (think s**tposting-type content found on 4chan and like online communities). Needless to say, normies and midwits reacted poorly to the flow of previously “clandestine” BBA-type online content, and they began their reign of terror on the Discourse, throwing all edgy online communication into the Shadow Realm.
For BBAs, this began a War of Attrition between BBA content creators and midwit-colonized platform moderators. BBA content creators began constantly creating new euphemisms for edgy topics to avoid being de-ranked or shadow-banned on mainstream online platforms. Being appalled by the lack of irl common courtesy mores in online discourse, normies reacted as normies do. They just went along with it. After all, FBI crime statistics are too uncomfortable to talk about in any irl social context anyway, no way that they should be allowed to be discussed online. For midwits, it became their moment to in-act their hammer-to-nail moderation policies on every platform (peaking between 2016 and 2022). They went to war against “misinformation” and “disinformation” which were really just pieces of true information that made them feel uncomfortable.
Internet culture going mainstream across the 2010s and into the early 2020s has been a shock to we BBAs; we, the indigenous peoples of the internet, had enjoyed and fostered the “Wild West” nature of the internet and were now being driven off our ancestral digital wasteland in droves (to fester with our ideas on Telegram and similarly “quarantined” social media platforms). The more that I think about it, the closer I see the similarities between this event and the concept of gentrification. We had a nice, cozy, depressing, soul-sucking wasteland on the internet to propagate the wildest and most conspiratorial ideas (just for fun) only for the midwit corpos to roll in and invest in our run-down digital neighborhoods, making them acceptable to potential investors causing more wealth to flow into our carefully cultivated, ancestral virtual cesspools. There are many analogies to this, but the picture below should suffice.
The centralization of the internet was inevitable, but make no mistake: its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Annihilation of the Third Place
The internet is the place where the Discourse takes place, where ideologies both fester and die out or vie for dominance in the “marketplace of ideas”. It is the place where “life” takes place, a replacement for the desolation of the Third Place. If you want to make friends as an adult today, you use the internet. If you want to date, you use dating apps. If you want to find something interesting to read or study, your best bet is YouTube or X or Instagram. Once while going on an internal rant with a tinge of narcissistic elitism, I had the thought that it would be cool if all the BBAs could somehow meet “irl” so that they could form relationships with each other and just vibe together or something… I then had the immediate realization don on me that this is why universities were originally created.
Now, if you go to any university today, more than half the students there should never have been allowed to take out a loan in the first place, let alone be allowed to set food on a supposed institution of “higher” learning. A bunch of normies were allowed to flood the last (physical) bastion of civil engagement and intellectual debate, washing out non-normies (Kekistanis? Incels? Chuds? Autismoschizoids? Reading Comprehension Enjoyers? BBAs?) and making the university into a shell of itself.
Deterritorialization is one of those Accelerationist principles that has taken place before our eyes in many different spheres even before the dawn of the Internet Age. University Campuses are now Anti-Christ Global Economic System (AGES) indoctrination camps more than they are education centers. They exist for the sake of subjugating generations via debt-slavery, forcing them into a co-dependent and abusive relationship with the state, and they have very few outside purposes. What is a university if the focus is not on education? What is a man if he can at any time become a woman? How can someone be a Christian if he or she does not practice the Faith?
You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
The Internet was once the fringe of society. It was once the new frontier of expansion after all Earth’s land had been conquered. It was once a place for the outcasts and the misunderstood to release their angst freely without the prying eyes of secular materialist morality encroaching its head. It is none of that now.
It is now a digital hellscape with no end to its transgressive tyrannies.
Being held within the generational confines of not being able to explore space due to limitations and not being able to explore the Earth, we were simply left with the exploration of the digital: a miserable place for all of humanity in its current incarnation.
Is there no escape from the digital hellscape?
Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no balm at Gilead? is there no Physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Who will alleviate the tyrannies of the online wastes?
To be clear, it’s a tyranny on two fronts. It’s a tyranny due to moderation policies enforced by midwit corpos (though this is changing due to Elon Musk owning X formerly “Twitter”). It’s also a tyranny due to the fact that there is no escape from the digital in this time that we live in. Everyone desires to do things irl, but most of the key aspects of life are now trapped in the digital realm. Obviously nothing stops you from gathering with friends, but a majority of aspects of life like dating and meeting new people occur primarily online now.
I keep thinking about someone solving this problem one day soon. I assume the solution will be an app unfortunately. I can’t imagine this state of being lasting for long, but maybe I’m foolish and overly hopeful. I love the internet, but it has its place. I’m tired of the grind of adult life where working and existing are the main functions. I go to church and fellowship with my church family from time to time, but I miss the days of my college life where hanging out with friends was the norm at all hours of the day. I imagine living in a small, tightly-knit village would feel the same as well, where you walk outside and just run into someone you know regularly…I don’t know…
I’m writing this to get back into the habit of writing in general. Not sure I have a point. Thoughts are welcome as comments below.
Even though I love it, I’m getting tired of the internet.