Here we go again. Another full blown shill game fest is brewing.
Or is it?
At least in part flat earthers versus gematria. Traditionally the two groups haven’t gotten along. A lot of flat earth content is strictly anti science. Purposeful photoshops, old thoroughly debunked moon landing is a hoax stuff, strange math to force a desired result just to slam actual science. But at least it’s still acknowledging that science made your cell phone, refrigerator and the tech to drill your gas to fill your car. Gematria can be used badly for anything. Any small number can be forced to mean anything you want. And because of its nature there is an occult appeal. You need to gain a mystical knowledge to deal with your world, because you’re never going to be able to predict the price of bitcoin without knowledge of philosophy and astrology. Because that makes all kinds of fucking sense.
And that’s the root of the flame wars that pop up. Well, actually it’s just competition for resources, but the mechanism used to compete for those resources causes the conflict.
For example, have you noticed a lot of rappers get shot and killed, including at a young age? Competition for resources. A sensible position would be a person who likes rap music can find enjoyment in both Rapper A and Rapper B. But somehow throw constant real life problems that get thrown into the mix there’s always enormous pressure to pick a side. Things that are outside the actual music itself. Systemic racism, how the record companies don’t have to pay royalties to dead creators, gang mentality from lack of education - not because they enjoy being uneducated but how all real world problems intertwine to form a system where people get desperate enough to just do what it takes to get by and get caught up in making what through what’s not entirely their own thought bad decisions.
Now in the gematria and adjacent crankery instead of a rap battle there’s a Rapture battle. Flat earth anti science also includes pro religion content because they are to some degree opposed to each other. A sensible position could be that you can enjoy thoughts of a benevolent deity while enjoying having a microwave to reheat your soup. But real life problems make the resulting cognitive dissonance, and we the viewers on the internet sidelines get to see the result of the competition for where exactly religion stands in the midst of the cult leaders battle for the available resources. Pick a side and stop paying attention to the other until after I get your money.
And that was way too long and off topic. Because the issue I’m addressing here is actually about how serious are we to take these flame wars? Like an oscilloscope output it’s up and down. Today is war. Tomorrow the truce is declared.
For the aspiring rapper looking to the past great names, they see that the quality is good for both of two choices. And their conflict is part of the marketing. The aspiring grifter sees how the quality of the bullshit is equally bad. And oh boy does that conflict spill over into the marketing for that. The internet has provided us with a similar fairly well known law, Poe’s Law. A well written parody can be indistinguishable from a seriously deluded piece of crankery. As far as I know there’s no such rule for describing how two competing bullshit artists engage in short term spats over and over again.
For an alleged community they sure do seem to take this competition seriously and enjoy riling up their current bases. It would be much simpler to find out that there’s actually a single, or small group, behind the scenes pulling all the strings. Then we could get some whistleblowers dropping names, have a RICO suit filed and make progress on disinformation. For now though, this doesn’t seem to be the case. Instead of real life violence, the conflict is limited to who does a better job of being a poopyhead.
I was going to say “calling the opposition a poopyhead”, when I remembered a basic tenet of finding out how serious the fight is currently. Hypocrisy. When the argument degenerates into a lot of projection the hypocrisy becomes apparent. Case in point, the current conflict involves Zach vs. Joseph Acquaviva. Zach is calling out Joseph for making gematria look bad by constantly relating everything to Obama being the Antichrist. While Zach relates…the exact same numbers…to the Jesuits rigging sports. Also making the work look bad because,
A). It’s not true that the Jesuits are involved in any sports rigging.
And
B). Zach’s sports predictions suck.
Both are equally bad bullshit artists and make the scam look equally bad. But where you fall today in the Rapture battle is key to views and donations. And in the meantime the “outstupid the other guy for engagement” content gets stuck on the internet, fueling others to do the same attacking and trolling that clogs up the internet with misinformation.
I’ve also several commenters both sidesing the conflict. Not all for the current fray, but historically getting worked up to support one side or the other. And I’ve got my eyes on someone in particular now that has days apart from each other slapped supportive comments on each of the big accounts channels. I just haven’t figured out what their agenda for this is yet. If that research bears fruit I might get a good idea of what my proposed internet law is to be named.
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