I am not normally in the habit of making predictions. Yet based on what I have seen and heard and learned over the past year, I will make a prediction for the record which readers at this site and elsewhere can, and should, hold me to account.
I predict that when cultural historians look back at #Gamergate, they will judge it to be one of the defining fronts of the newest phase of the various wars that have been fought to save traditional Western culture. And, if things continue to move the way I expect them to, they will find that unlike previous battles in the culture wars, we will have won this one.
We will win because our tactics are so fundamentally different from what our enemies expect—they emphasise speed, flexibility, surprise, and individual initiative, while our enemies remain tied to moribund doctrines that emphasise overwhelming application of massive force to individual targets.
We will win, above all, because we will have captured the moral high-ground in this conflict. And once we align the mental and physical levels of this war with the moral level—as we are already beginning to do—we will become unstoppable.
When historians look back at this movement, decades or even centuries from now, they will see a powerful example of the applications of what was once a radical and bizarre new theory of conflict called Fourth-Generation Warfare. And what we have achieved, and what we will achieve, will be used as a case study to show the destabilising power of such warfare against entrenched interests that seek to subvert values that the rest of us hold dear.
In order to understand just why that is such a radical statement, you have to understand exactly how unusual it is for traditionalists of any stripe in any of the past three generations to win these kinds of conflicts.
I'm done.
Fuck videogames and everything that goes along with it.
Gamergate is still going on? I thought it fizzed out a few months ago. ???
Gamergate is still going on? I thought it fizzed out a few months ago. ???
Gamergate is still going on? I thought it fizzed out a few months ago. ???
It really puts its foot down as a contender for Article of the Year this early in the contest.
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I'm done.
Fuck videogames and everything that goes along with it.
I just play my stupid games and ignore those assholes. WIN.
This is going to sound touchy-feely, granola, California-Portlandia or something, but I believe most of the problems we have with young white males comes from the pairing of limiting the range of “valid” (socially acceptable) negative emotional responses to anger, and the current sociological tendency toward pointing out that white male privilege essentially means they have no problems, no real struggle.
Everyone struggles, and they experience it firsthand, making it a valid, real problem for them. It doesn’t matter that measured objectively against someone else’s problems, they pale in comparison (apologies for the pun). Nobody really opens every morning with a prayer of gratitude that they’re not suddenly missing both legs, not suffering from terminal cancer, grateful for their job putting food on the table, under the roof which covers them, blessed that they’re not forced into a labor camp... Everybody has their own problems, and they’re real for the bearer.
Couple that with the way males are widely taught that being sad is weak, and crying is for girls and babies, and really the only response proper from a “manly” perspective is anger, and you’ve got a broken person.
These GG freaks, they’re broken. They have found something which resonates with them: their interests are under attack. The only response the know is anger.
In a sense, society is to blame. I still want to punch them in the face, because I’ve got my own anger issues.
This is going to sound touchy-feely, granola, California-Portlandia or something, but I believe most of the problems we have with young white males comes from the pairing of limiting the range of “valid” (socially acceptable) negative emotional responses to anger, and the current sociological tendency toward pointing out that white male privilege essentially means they have no problems, no real struggle.
Everyone struggles, and they experience it firsthand, making it a valid, real problem for them. It doesn’t matter that measured objectively against someone else’s problems, they pale in comparison (apologies for the pun). Nobody really opens every morning with a prayer of gratitude that they’re not suddenly missing both legs, not suffering from terminal cancer, grateful for their job putting food on the table, under the roof which covers them, blessed that they’re not forced into a labor camp... Everybody has their own problems, and they’re real for the bearer.
Couple that with the way males are widely taught that being sad is weak, and crying is for girls and babies, and really the only response proper from a “manly” perspective is anger, and you’ve got a broken person.
These GG freaks, they’re broken. They have found something which resonates with them: their interests are under attack. The only response the know is anger.
In a sense, society is to blame. I still want to punch them in the face, because I’ve got my own anger issues.
spoiler (click to show/hide)I still don't understand what the hell gamergate is actually about. Maybe I should watch that SVU episode.[close]
Rolling back suffrage or voluntary dissolution of contracts of association are not solutions to any problem faced by the downtrodden.How can we know until we try? Don't we owe it to future generations?
I know someone who is pro GG. He's unemployed (worked his way up from QA tester to game designer), has no education past HS, believes in the vast global Jew conspiracy, is high all the time and is grumpy about women.Two of these don't sound like negatives to me.
That's the face of GG to me.
How do you even know that someone you know is pro or anti-GGI require all people who associate with me to fill out extended documentation and include transcripts and tax returns.
I know someone who is pro GG. He's unemployed (worked his way up from QA tester to game designer), has no education past HS, believes in the vast global Jew conspiracy, is high all the time and is grumpy about women.
That's the face of GG to me.
How do you even know that someone you know is pro or anti-GG
i knew someone pro-gg/pro-mra. i fired him.Steve Ballmer?
Actually, recently my Facebook has blown up with a number of non--gamer friends finally taking notice of this. Most of them are women, working tech, just having nothing to do with game industry garbage… Until now.
How do you even know that someone you know is pro or anti-GG
what is kia, dare i ask
chrono what do you do?
Kotaku in Action, subreddit
there are a lot of different nests on that website that view their own particular slice of life being incurred upon by postmodern cultural Marxist feminazi Joos; it's like American White Male Crisis Part Deux: but with the Internet this time
"Oh...uh...videogames? You mean, like, Pac-Man or something?"
What’s that from?Kotaku in Action, subreddit
there are a lot of different nests on that website that view their own particular slice of life being incurred upon by postmodern cultural Marxist feminazi Joos; it's like American White Male Crisis Part Deux: but with the Internet this time
(http://i.imgur.com/FvBhvnD.jpg)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Chinoise
It's basically my biopic.