I don't know why I bother, but I guess it's therapy in a way to at least attempt to make a point. This post is an attempt to explain once more but in different words what I see happening to this community.
When I say community, I refer to the loose collection of avatars and identities which congregate around a topic online. In this case it's anything to do with the greater 'conspiracy' space. This includes past, present, alternative, official, red/blue/black/white/grey pilled, and any stage of cryto/zoo/litho based stuff including but not limited UFO/UAPs, corruption, corporate whistleblowers, espionage, military or civilian, and otherwise.
There are many different places that you can go and some are more popular than others. Some are much more active, and some are more reactive to the news than others.
However, I feel like they are all quite hollowed out these days. It's like many of them died, retired, or have been controlled or sold out.
The number of unique threads these days is dwindling, and amongst the collection of different sites they are all beginning to show the same general content. Many of the times this is done through reposting the exact same articles or threads across all the sites at once. These are then flooded and promoted and take up the discussion and attention of the communities.
At other times, you will see the same kind of comments prolifically cast across the communities and all forming the general consensus. This is most noticeable if you visit a bunch of sites frequently enough (every other day at least) and you have been to many of these places (at least 5-6+ to compare) and you visit for a long enough time.
Most people will say it is because of MSM and it is, but it is also because these kinds of communities are the news....
This place....is a channel for 80% corporate/military/foreign/religious/etc control and less than 20% organic.
All the sites are. Every single website, forum, and mass social media group is.....
I don't know how to find anything original these days. It's like it's vanished. There is no single website that doesn't have these issues.
I have to on discords...same thing.
We like to talk about communism....but let's actually pause for a moment and consider that our minds are being made extremely communal.....
When was the last original post you saw on here that wasnt originally from another rehashed source??
I think almost everything is just a repost now.
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This is dead internet theory but it's worse than that....it's dead culture
Depending on the topic, a LACK of originality is a good thing. The Bible shouldn't change, the classics like The Illiad, Walden's Woods, or Lord of the Rings shouldn't change. Shakespeare reaches through the mists of 400 years to say things that can never be said better. Read his poems and watch his plays, and you'll understand more about human nature than any psychologist alive.
Read the classics mon ami, read the classics.
True, and I have read many of them. It's not the problem. The culture is not in books
... Books capture a snapshot of it
Human nature remains the same, only technology changes. Therefore, the classics that speak to the enduring or the eternal (in the case of the Bible) are timeless regardless of the ebb or flow of the culture.
Lack of originality comes from a mindset, that you are falling into, of thinking there must be new and shiny stuff updated for modern audiences. It's not a lack of originality that creates a cultural rot, but a rejection of the classics.
That may be true actually. I love the classics. I don't discount them. I have a shelf of books filled with oldies and goodies.
I love the myths, the legends, allegories etc.
There is magic in them.
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You may be right about the rejection causing the problems. We may be in a cycle of low quality high volume culture....not robust and time proven.
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But part of the mindset is having a place and people to share with...you need to embrace these stories and to do that you need to explore them with others.