Without sharing my ideas, I'm finding copies of my memes pol. I have noticed this over the years, but never tried to quantify it.
It's possible that other people simply came up with the same ideas independently, but statistically unlikely. It's possible that I was influenced by other memes or various things in the media, so I introduced controls for that.
I picked obscure cartoon characters in very specific situations for many of them. No one is hacking me because I never even looked up images to use, I merely sketched them on scratch paper and piled them up on my desk.
Something is going on here. This is not cognitive bias, the purpose of this experiment was to quantify it.
Of the 173 memes I sketched out, I found 59 of them on the pols and voat over the past 3 months. That's 34.104%.
Either we are extremely predictable and responding to the same stimuli to create the same memes, or there is a psychic hive mind.
Of the 59 which were essentially the same, 11.864% of them had the same exact captions or words.
Something is going on. I feel like I'm about to break the 4th wall. I'm looking directly into the camera. Are you watching?
I'm now convinced that if I have an idea, there are many other people having the same idea. What does this mean for coordination if we can assume ideas are shared without even posting them online, without communication?
What if websites are much more than what they appear and they don't just function to share information explicitly, but they serve as a psychic focus point where a fraction of the people viewing them mentally synchronize?
What if more than websites, even just images, are a loci for exchanging thoughts?
What can we do with this information?
Can we really coordinate without any direct communication? Can we count on more people to join in an operation which was never spoken about but only concurrently thought up by hundreds, maybe thousands of people?
Is the ideological war we fight day in and day out solely about distributing information through websites, leaflets, and tricking Jewish news into covering subjects we want covered, in the ways we want covered?
What if by focusing intensely on ideas, we could shape the opinions of the population without risking exposing ourselves? If we can simply go into a room and meditate on the ideas we want to spread, there's no way they could stop us or even identify us.
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Because if you actually cared about this subject and the ideas behind it, you would commit to the work. You are the one that came here and posted this topic, opening the dialogue.
If you don't want to lead the effort or put any real verifiable work behind your ideas, and instead trick others into doing it for you, it makes it easy to dismiss you as one of (((those))) people.
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