{"id":72428,"date":"2025-08-08T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=72428"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:25:07","slug":"qotd-accelerating-back-towards-bicamerality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/qotd-accelerating-back-towards-bicamerality\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Accelerating back towards bicamerality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bicamerality [Wiki<\/a>] is the human ground state; we always “want” to return to it; in the absence of the actual gods, the blinking smartphone screen is the next best thing.<\/p>\n

This hypothesis seems to explain a few huge, otherwise perplexing facts of Leftist behavior. First: The further Left a person is, the more desperate xzhey are to put everyone else into one, and only one<\/em>, category. Starting, of course, with themselves \u2014 I often joke that they’re trying to get their own bespoke “sexuality” so refined that no one else in the world could possibly share it. That would relieve them from the burden of ever actually having to be intimate \u2014 sexually or otherwise \u2014 with anyone. They can sit in the dark in their masks, eating bugs and watching Netflix, totally alone, forever.<\/p>\n

I’m joking, but I’m not kidding. They really do seem to want that<\/em>. And bicamerality explains it. I’ve also frequently likened them to the “zooanthrops” from The Book of the New Sun<\/em>, from whence my stupid nom de blog<\/em> comes. In that book, the literal end of the world was just around the corner \u2014 the sun, long expanded into a cool red giant, was about to go out, possibly within the current generation’s lifetime. Because of that, some people decided to “lay the burden of consciousness down” \u2014 they had themselves lobotomized and dumped in the woods.<\/p>\n

Again, I’m joking, but I’m not kidding: Doesn’t that seem to be what so many on the Left really<\/em> want? To be relieved of the burden of thought?<\/p>\n

It applies even more so when they’re forced to interact with the world. We’ve all seen how desperate they are to shove people into one, and only one, box. Actually “desperate” is too mild a word \u2014 nothing frightens them more than the fact that a person can look<\/em> one way, but actually be<\/em> another way. It’s why they’re such slaves to fashion \u2014 literal fashion, not just fads trending on Twitter. Even before Der Hamsterkauf<\/em> you could tell a Leftist just by looking at them, pretty much 100% of the time. Afterwards … well, we’ve all advanced a lot of explanations for why they’re so bizarrely insistent on the mask, especially for children<\/em>: It’s their new purity ritual. They’re all chicks, and that’s the ultimate chick herd behavior. They’re just sadists. And so on.<\/p>\n

But what if it’s as simple as The Mask relieves them, as nothing else can, from a significant source of interpersonal stress? “Interpersonal” again is too mild a word. They don’t want to “get to know you”. They don’t even want to talk to you. Hell, they don’t even want to share the same air with you<\/em>, and do you see what I mean? Their “lives” would be so much better if we all had to wear colored patches on our jumpsuits, Dachau-style, telling everyone exactly<\/em> what we are (exactly and only<\/em>). Barring that, they’d love to reimpose some of the old medieval sumptuary laws<\/a> \u2014 again, you will eat the bugs, because that’s what you deserve<\/em>, peasant! But it’s not just that. It’s also a huge stress relief for them, to be able to tell a person’s social status at a glance.<\/p>\n

Consider further (just briefly) how much a non-victim Victim fries their circuits. A gay conservative, say, or a pro-life woman, or a black “acting White” (your average liberal makes your average rapper look like a paragon of tolerance when it comes to that particular sin, though of course the liberal dresses it up in a thousand syllables of fugly jargon). Even though “the sex you’re attracted to” has no possible relationship to “your stance on the tax code”, the Left has made it so \u2014 first as a cynical political maneuver, but now because it minimizes their “interpersonal” (again, for lack of a better word) stress.<\/p>\n

The tl;dr here is that your typical Leftist seems to spend all xzheir time in xzheir own head \u2014 always labeling, cataloging, frantically shoving everyone and everything into its own little box. But they do this, I think, because they know subconsciously that once they’ve got everything shoved into one and only box, forever, they’ll never have to think again … and that’s what they really want. A life of perfect unconscious bliss, where any “decision” that needs to get made comes from the blinking box.<\/p>\n

Severian, “Striving Towards Bicamerality”, Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2022-03-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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