Oh my God, your brain is cooked! Get some therapy, turn off your phone, read a book, or go out. There’s an obsession with conspiracy theories that’s driving people into the arms of the far right. We need to stop participating in this nonsense and dragging our friends into fascism.
Take the Claudine Gay incident, for example. Yes, academic plagiarism is bad, but the charges against her were minor. The real issue is that she was targeted. When someone becomes a target, people will dig until they find something, no matter how trivial. This is a tactic used by troll farms and mass reporters. They repeatedly report your account until you slip up. It’s not about the rule you broke; it’s about the harassment.
Look at Claudine Gay. She was targeted because of her race and her stance on Israel. They dug until they found something—plagiarism in this case. The same could happen to anyone. Your private data, texts, friendships, and even your Google searches could be weaponised against you. This is the real issue, not the plagiarism itself.
The far right uses these tactics to distract us. They want us to argue about the details, not the bigger picture. They can’t win the macro argument, so they focus on minutiae. The 2025 Project is a prime example. It outlines a dystopian vision, yet it’s laundered through seemingly reasonable people. They use issues like transgender rights to pull you into their funnel.
It’s not about the belief; it’s about the behaviour. Cults behave in a certain way: they control information, harass out-groups, and use thought-terminating clichés. Arguing about plagiarism is like arguing about Scientology’s personality tests. It’s a distraction from the real issue.
The same goes for AI and copyright law. The quibbles of copyright law distract us from the larger issue of exploitation and theft. People hide behind jargon and complex theories to justify their actions. But at the end of the day, it’s about simple morality. If you can’t argue at that level, you’re missing the point.
We need to stop lying to ourselves with theory and philosophy. Reflect on who you are and what you stand for. Are you falling into fascism? If so, look it up, reflect, and change. AI can even help with this. You can ask AI tools to help you understand if you’ve been radicalised.
I’m spending my time warning people because I care. We can do better. It’s easy to be nihilistic, but that’s just an excuse to do nothing. We need to act and make a change.