Message from @Exilarch
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@diversity_is_racism ...and sticking up for your own team
@Exilarch enforced morality may not be as bad as average people make it out to be
libertarianism rejects this and look what you get
people taking their shirts off and dancing around at conferences
Why does nobody ever point out that "Trending" articles are literally just global announcements/pinned topics renamed with the implication that they are organically popular at a grassroots level?
fidget spinners are a very good example of paid viral marketing
it definitely wouldnt have gotten so popular were it not for how much shilling was goin gon
Silly geese complaining about Lord of the Rings: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/dec/12/tolkiens-myths-are-a-political-fantasy
power struggle over ring->ring gives power->was created by powerful people->who?->elves
guy farts around with elves->omg elves worried about ring, sumthin goin down lol->omg ring gives powarr->omg elves are the ones who made it!!! Dun dun DUNNN~!
thus, reversing the format allows working up the chain of "why?" questions to become plot twists
Man in a desert writes a book
man in a desert writes a book->book causes a huge war
man in a desert writes a book->book contains esoteric semi-sorcery knowledge->book causes a huge war over how the knowledge ought to be used. Part of the struggle is d/t side effect of the sorcery
the way the book works, you make a wish, you can get the wish, however something bad happens to you, the wish is granted in such a way that it burns you ultimately, UNLESS you sacrifice to it by harming others to offset it.
this creates the ideologic schism. Some say that, since it is inevitable people will be harmed by the sorcery, it's important to round up the worst of society and use them as human cattle to sacrifice for the betterment of man
THE CULLING, 427 PAGES
other spergs say "no that's bad, we have to stop this because it's not egalitarian," however, by Maximum Power Principle, they MUST utilize the book's teachings in order to compete successfully against the other side
It would actually be a lot like primitive tribal warfare
so, to do the opposite of the "wrong" ideology, they make sure to randomize it as a lottery, Hunger Games style so it's "equal." Later in the book they can outright target the most attractive and talented
You must maximize your own tribe at the expense of others, or another tribe will do it and vanquish yours
and its not evil, its just like predators and prey struggling
here's why the egalitarians stay in power: how much negative effect is offset is proportional to the overall quality/metaphysical value of those sacrificed
therefore, it would be great, says assorted diversity distopia enthusiasts
yeah and then you have the cracks begin to show and their society go to shit, and the witch hunts only intensify
looking to burn more 100+ IQ people to keep their shamble of a world going
you could even do it so by the time the character is on the scene, they literally have forgotten how to do anything the old fashioned way, they just know how to sacrifice smart people to the book
"it's not that we have bad policies, it's that some people aren't getting in line"
exactly
GOOD IDEAS ALL
you could set it up so the good guys win, except it's an ersatz win, a potemkin win that is slowly crumbling, and life is actually horrible
I KEPT QUIET AND LISTENED
It will become better if refined further
but the fundament is promising
the point however is that I have a system here
Your system emulates how real things are discovered. That may be why it is effective; it uses our brains like our brains are primed to be used
could finish this whole plot idea, reorder it so it becomes a series of discoveries and plot twists in the eyes of the reader, then render it into bullet points, submit the bullet points to a talent pool to write chapter by chapter, submit those to an editorial tank, have it done in a month
You start with some random thing being discovered, like a book in a desert. Then, you develop its traits. This is similar to how we first see a thing, and then later, how it acts, and learn its history, etc