I know this is the narcissist prayer and he’s certainly not a narcissist (based on what I’ve seen anyway) but can’t help but see each one of these lines unironically applies to the situation.
Fact is profit driven healthcare has killed more people than Luigi ever did, allegedly or not.
Where in private you celebrate Luigi for what we think he did.
But in Public we pretend he didn’t do it to help create a narrative to protect him from the police state.
I think there is a little more nuance to it than that. I don’t think anybody legitimately believes he did it and simultaneously didn’t do it.
There’s basically a slider of dialogue ranging from “he ought to have a fair trial” to “he didn’t do it” to “if he did it, I’m glad he did” to “we need more Luigis”
People are generally pushing that slider as far as they socially acceptably can for the given circumstance they’re in. You’re not gonna say the latter things in public or with your name attached out of fear of reproductions.
So what you get is a mixed bag of feelings, which are almost all pro-Luigi even if they’re different forms of it.
I both publicly and privately think it’s very plausible, maybe even likely, that he didn’t do it, or at the very least a lot of the evidence was planted.
I can still use his imagery and name because it’s a good rallying cry whether he did it or not: if he did do it, it was an act of defiance against an industry that’s harmed millions, and if he didn’t then he’s a symbol showing the system desperate to stamp out resistance to the rule of oligarchs. Actually… He’s that second one either way, too.
But anyway, he couldn’t have done it because he was at my place grilling that day.
It’s easy to make someone believe the truth. But to make them believe a falsehood is useful. Because then those people can wear their belief as a uniform.
We just have to believe that he didn’t kill that CEO while simultaneously and surreptitiously knowing he did. That is our uniform. That makes us an army.
You’re also assuming people are considering Luigi and the shooter the same person. I don’t think Luigi shot Thompson, but I also don’t think the shooter’s actions are all that bad considering the state of our for profit suffering machine “healthcare” industry.
So there may not be a much doublethink as you think. Because its been fairly clear from the start that the evidence against Luigi is flimsy, and the tactics in use and ‘evidence’ provided by the police are suspect at the absolute best.
I know this is the narcissist prayer and he’s certainly not a narcissist (based on what I’ve seen anyway) but can’t help but see each one of these lines unironically applies to the situation.
Fact is profit driven healthcare has killed more people than Luigi ever did, allegedly or not.
The point is a sort of doublethink.
Where in private you celebrate Luigi for what we think he did. But in Public we pretend he didn’t do it to help create a narrative to protect him from the police state.
I think there is a little more nuance to it than that. I don’t think anybody legitimately believes he did it and simultaneously didn’t do it.
There’s basically a slider of dialogue ranging from “he ought to have a fair trial” to “he didn’t do it” to “if he did it, I’m glad he did” to “we need more Luigis”
People are generally pushing that slider as far as they socially acceptably can for the given circumstance they’re in. You’re not gonna say the latter things in public or with your name attached out of fear of reproductions.
So what you get is a mixed bag of feelings, which are almost all pro-Luigi even if they’re different forms of it.
Isn’t that exactly what I said?
I said people “pretend” he didn’t do it. Not they “believe” it.
It being sorta double think means it’s sorta simultaneously two different beliefs. But at its root that’s never the case, even a little bit.
Both can be true. He could have done it, and the cops could have planted evidence.
I both publicly and privately think it’s very plausible, maybe even likely, that he didn’t do it, or at the very least a lot of the evidence was planted.
I can still use his imagery and name because it’s a good rallying cry whether he did it or not: if he did do it, it was an act of defiance against an industry that’s harmed millions, and if he didn’t then he’s a symbol showing the system desperate to stamp out resistance to the rule of oligarchs. Actually… He’s that second one either way, too.
But anyway, he couldn’t have done it because he was at my place grilling that day.
Some people think he did it and are pretending he didn’t, and others don’t think he did it and are pretending he did.
Right now, he’s just a name and the people associate with a cause, and the police associate with a crime.
It’s like what Mendicus Moldbug said.
It’s easy to make someone believe the truth. But to make them believe a falsehood is useful. Because then those people can wear their belief as a uniform.
We just have to believe that he didn’t kill that CEO while simultaneously and surreptitiously knowing he did. That is our uniform. That makes us an army.
You’re also assuming people are considering Luigi and the shooter the same person. I don’t think Luigi shot Thompson, but I also don’t think the shooter’s actions are all that bad considering the state of our for profit
suffering machine“healthcare” industry.So there may not be a much doublethink as you think. Because its been fairly clear from the start that the evidence against Luigi is flimsy, and the tactics in use and ‘evidence’ provided by the police are suspect at the absolute best.