greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 31
st, 2026 at 4:35pm:
All excellent points, Greggery. The Weber take is most interesting. Three forms of power - traditional, legal and charismatic.
Back when the old boy was a Neocon, he followed the former. Uncle
has to play sheriff, he said. Superior culture. Rule of law, innit.
Now he's an authoritarian charismatic, the law no longer matters. DL's the one, he says. Give in to your overwhelming desire to
obey.They're now using totally programmed bot-speak. Aquascoot's been using it for years - the Real Americans, the chodes, the Superior Man, he upon the "narrow road to success". Stuff he's read on the back of self-help books, things he's heard on Joe Rogan, preachy rants on Sky News, all mixed up and packaged into a love of
he, a desperate search for meaning and identity, all fed by the algorithm.
Not sure why we worry about AI. Superior intelligence could create a far better cult than this. St Paul created a mainstream cult out of an angry political agitator. It lasted two millenia.
Right now, churches all over America are preaching DL. The actual gospel is ignored entirely. As Americans have become poorer and more dumb, prosperity doctrine has given way to the right to bear arms, misogyny, white supremacy and grabbing clicks on social media. They don't even know what Jesus is supposed to have said - they now worship an adulterous convicted felon as their saviour.
You couldn't make it up. It's the most unbelievable schema we've ever been sold, but there it is.
They're already covering their arses. DL will be dead in less than a decade.
How do you think they'll play it then?