Humanity depends on you being Nonconforming or: All this Condescending Conditioning can suck my Cumdescending Cock.

Mr. Lovenstein comic panel showing a cute rabbit talking to a cute bear holding a 'hug stick' — Rabbit: "The best revenge is a life well lived." Bear: "That's nice. But I think I will just 'hug' them."

Now, more than ever, we’ve got massive homogenizing weapons. The effects of radio and television pale in comparison to the mental conditioning pushed by social media, and the prospects for AI-based education are darker than any sci-fi cautionary tale could predict.

Just the other day, that silly Mr. Lovenstein strip was censored on Facebook for "encouraging violence" (above is the social-media-approved version). It would be understandable if Facebook were a place for toddlers, but you can’t even join under 13. What they’re saying is that adolescents and adults looking at this are too stupid and vulnerable to understand it’s a joke - and the comical consequence of that censorship is that, in one generation, adolescents and adults will actually be too stupid and vulnerable to understand it. But I’ll get to that later

In the comments, a user said "One time I was in FB jail for a week for a "Realistic threat of violence". What did I do? I said that people abusing helpless cats should have their legs [evicted] from [their nether regions] and have their heads [lovingly massaged] with those legs."

A realistic threat of violence, uh? In an increasingly online society, people are no longer allowed to rant or vent their frustrations and feelings truthfully and in a liberating way, for they’re punished for it. Although I can’t conceive of the effects this domestication and emotional suppression can have on art, this might not even be the worst part of this Pavlovian dystopia we’re living in. On the most popular platform ever, YouTube, newspeak is already a reality. If you say words like rape, suicide, genocide, torture, etc., you get your reach screwed, your videos removed, your channel demonetized, and finally you can get deplatformed. The consequence? Channels about history and war reporting are massively censored and removed... but what would be the consequences of this massive, worldwide Bowdlerization for society? Does sweeping ugly words under the rug eliminate the problems or just help hide them?

A page from the 1984 comic book adaptation. — How is the Dictionary getting on?" said Winston, raising his voice to overcome the noise. "Slowly," said Syme. "I'm on the adjectives. It's fascinating." He had brightened up immediately at the mention of Newspeak. He pushed his pannikin aside, took up his hunk of bread in one delicate hand and his cheese in the other, and leaned across the table so as to be able to speak without shouting. "The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition," he said. "We're getting the language into its final shape - the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we've finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We're destroying words - scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won't contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050." He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a sort of pedant's passion. His thin dark face had become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take "good", for instance. If you have a word like "good", what need is there for a word like "bad"? "Ungood" will do just as well - better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of "good", what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like "excellent" and "splendid" and all the rest of them? "Plusgood" covers the meaning, or "doubleplusgood" if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already. but in the final version of Newspeak there'll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words - in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.'s idea originally, of course," he added as an afterthought. A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston's face at the mention of Big Brother. Nevertheless Syme immediately detected a certain lack of enthusiasm. "You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston," he said almost sadly. "Even when you write it you're still thinking in Oldspeak. I've read some of those pieces that you write in The Times occasionally. They're good enough, but they're translations. In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?" Winston did know that, of course. He smiled, sympathetically he hoped, not trusting himself to speak. Syme bit off another fragment of the dark-coloured bread, chewed it briefly, and went on: "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Orwell comic adaptation by Fido Nesti. I hate to be That guy who says "This is just like 1984",
but sometimes it's just too ominous.

Everyone is policing their own words, the way and how they express themselves on the internet, afraid of the social sanctions it can impose. Unaware of "ungood", unironically unalived has already become a word for suicide.

The weird thing that no novel thought about is that this is being pushed not for a power project for an oppressive totalitarian State, nor a religious moralistic repression of humanity, no, Big Tech doesn't give a shit about that, it's all money. The stupidization of people is just a by-product of capitalism. Sponsors don't want to see their products advertised next to some themes, Coca-Cola doesn't want their ads next to a history channel talking about the Japanese massively raping Korean women during WWII and these women becoming pariahs in the Korean society, nor does McDonald's want their ads next to a cute bear talking about stabbing people, so these are a No-No.

We already have a whole adult generation raised on Big Tech thought control, everyone that had their childhood and early adolescence in the last 15 years was subjected to it, and man, interactions with individuals of that generation who were oversocialized in social media can often be painful. People who overly fixate on meaningless stuff because it's a taboo to them, it doesn't matter what context you say something, if you said something that is a Big Tech No-No their brains shut off and they can't comprehend it (kinda like people reading The Boys and completely missing what it is about just because of the violence, bad words and sex. Man, I always get back to it hahaha). Four years ago someone posted a question on a Soulseek community, asking if they could involuntarily download harmful files on it, and I said that OP (Original Poster) sounded like the kid who downloads LiNkIn-PaRk-NuMb.exe, referencing a popular P2P joke, as we were inside a P2P community, and then I proceeded to explain he chooses what files to download, he can see the file extensions, and then I gave my own list of banned extensions to avoid unwanted stuff. Since then three users messaged me to say I didn't have to be such an asshole about it, somehow every two years another person found the thread and got offended by it... yeah, they really thought my joke about LiNkIn-PaRk-NuMb.exe was offensive. For someone so unbelievable ~~stupid~~ infantilized, I guess that Mr. Lovenstein strip would indeed be confusing.

ps: About fixating on something and blocking the rest. They found the joke offensive and ignored the helpful advice. They can't form a coherent logical stream of thought that If I wanted to bully OP, Then I wouldn't help OP... also, I feel very sorry for full-grown adults who managed to find it offensive. It must be hell being so miserable and glass-half-empty that you see everything as an aggression.

My most recent interaction with this kind was on Letterboxd. When I was going to log Dogs in Space, a movie about the late '70s Melbourne punk scene, written and directed by someone who was there living in those shared houses, and who wanted to do an homage to a friend lost in those days. I saw a punk saying the movie wasn't really punk because [I have no idea what he considers "real punk"], and then I saw the same person saying the same thing about Suburbia, a movie written and directed by someone who was there living and documenting the early '80s Los Angeles punk scene, saying the movie didn't depict punks correctly, that despite the "visual side of punk is displayed relatively well" they did not understand anything about the punk subculture... I was baffled by the crap he was spouting, but instead of just calling him out, I just asked if he thought the same thing about The Decline of the Western Civilization, a 1981 documentary with everyone from the early LA punk scene, by the same director of Suburbia. And I recommended that he read some basics like Please Kill Me, Dance of Days, and collected editions of zines like Touch and Go and even Maximum Rocknroll, that are pretty easy to find, so he could broaden his vision of punk history, and said those movies depicted the punk scene of their times, and not the current punk scene.
I also once knew nothing and thought I knew everything, but I met a lot of fantastic people in the punk scene, even those who mocked me for young-age ignorance and naivety helped me - because yeah, my brain is well-formed enough to discern a friendly mockery from bullying and aggression. I always liked reading and learning, and the natural consequence of learning is discovering you know shit. My introductory statement to this Letterboxd user was saying that I had been in the punk scene for more than 20 years and I'm still a novice, I didn't want to evoke some authoritative tone to what I was saying, I was just recommending reading material. I hoped we could talk about this subject I like so much. In those years I played in bands, I had a distro, promoted gigs, even with illegal energy connections at abandoned places, I got to host or help punk, hardcore, crossover, anarchopunk, crust and grind bands from the UK, Sweden, Italy, Japan and Canada (not to mention tons of locals bands from my continental-sized country), 15 years ago I actually had one of the most visited blogs where you could download Brazilian punk music at the time, with lots of stuff I ripped myself (all links long dead), I even had a short essay about the history of Street Punk and Oi!, which I wrote because of local gang violence I experienced myself, and I extensively talk about all the fascist and antifascist groups that formed the scene in the world, it was published and distributed by several anarchist presses here, and I know it was translated and distributed by an antifascist collective in Mexico as well (and I assume after the translation it might have reached other Latin American countries), and I list my lifetime of reading references to books and fanzines, no superficial wikipedia crap (if you are interested in reading it, it's in Portuguese and the language extremely colloquial, but AI translation tools are getting quite good these days, so here is the link). In my message to that user, seeing his complaints about homophobia in those movies, and knowing he is British, I referenced an interview of the British anarchopunk band The Apostles in the fanzine Homocore in 1989, mentioning how they were rejected by the anarchopunk scene in the early '80s when two of their members came out as gay, and that the band The Mob also suffered just because they lived in the same squat. So yeah, it wasn't just apolitical Oi! bands like The Business making fun of Tom Robinson, homophobia was a sad reality of the scene, even in the political side of it.

What happened? The guy deleted my comment and blocked me. He didn't want to know his view of "real punk" wasn't the absolute truth. The new generations are being raised in echo chambers, and even the slightest contradiction triggers them. They think it's an aggression. Those are the kind of adults we see having mental breakdowns and throwing tantrums when faced with adversity and opposition. You can't even have a normal conversation because they can't deal with anything that is not an echo chamber. Their anxiety rates are off the charts.

What about me? I'm also being pavloved. As I mentioned in the update of a previous rant, Facebook removed my page. Most strikes were about nudity and themes related to suicide. Anything that relates to suicide is a big No-No. These panels from the 1989 July edition of Heavy Metal was the last one, and it seemed to have been reviewed by humans after their bot flagged it... The kind of people that can read it and not understand it really scares me, because they are fucking idiots!

Comic panels from the story Tiger G-1. A soldier who lost an eye while killing a person puts the gun in his mouth — "He couldn't get those words out of his head: 'We must destroy all those people who are either physically or mentally handicapped an are only a burden on your society.' He would listen to them one more time. 'We must destroy all those people are either physically or mentally handicapped and are only a burden on our society.' Tiger knew what he had to do. He just had to his duty."

I police the images I post in my new Facebook page, I have now learned their censorship standards and I'm being able to avoid it fairly well, like a good well-behaved tamed drone. The only place I post whatever I want, and not treat the viewer as stupid, is my personal sites. I no longer share my personal life, what I'm doing or where I'm going on social media anyway, I only use it to share the movies and comics I like. But I don't censor my thoughts, and all this condescending conditioning can suck my cumdescending cock.

Still from Demolition Man showing John Spartan being fined by an automated machine for cursing — "Thanks a lot you shit-brained, fuck-faced, ball-breaking, duck-fucking..."

The most hilarious image that landed me a Facebook strike

Comic panel showing one person lying across another's lap and being spanked in the butt. — "Treat others how you want to be treated."

By Wizard of Barge. I'm still not sure if it's encouraging violence or if it's pornography.