This is a difficult subject to write about because it involves an examination of two distinctly different cultures using a new and undeveloped scientific system for measuring the value of culture based off an old theory.
The theory of memetics has recently seen a resurgence in discussion because of social media profiling software and analytics. Because of the data from in depth character profiling available to massive corporate analytics companies, Memetics is starting to look like a viable science, especially for those looking to influence others.
The discussion of cult vs culture is becoming a very important issue because of
Corporate funded media propaganda and foreign disinformation along with advances in technologies and techniques for measuring and influencing human behavior.
Humans are the builders of culture, and influencing the other humans around us with our words and ideas 💡 Is a natural flow of our existence. There are those in society who have always sought to exploit this fact of human nature, and with the power of the internet and corporate money, it seems like it is possible to make some humans believe almost anything with enough repetition and exposure.
Through the lens of Memetics, it appears that human cultures are repeating cycles of growth, division, and then evolution/extinction. It also seems that it is entirely possible for human culture and human technology growth to happen somewhat independant of one another and that there might be a Goldilocks zone of balance where culture science compliments technology growth and creates exponential growth possibilities for both tech and culture simultaneously.
If we lay a military viewpoint overtop this scenario, we have an actual internal National security problem. Social media is proving it can turn out large numbers of people who can be trained to believe almost anything, and a smaller number to the point of radicalization and violence.
Finding a solution to these issues is going to require the ability to determine what the difference is between normal cultural exchange, and cult like persuasion techniques. I feel we should take it a step further by learning how to measure culture exchange in even finer detail; far beyond the crude analytics we have now.
Measuring culture exchange beyond a simple monetary value requires us to get into some very complicated debates about censorship. Developing a scale for culture exchange that gives a + or - attribute for it, gets extremely complicated because of the diversity of human consciousness and subjective nature of human experience.
Richard Spencer of the Alt-Right has clearly indicated that a 100% White America would be a positive experience in his opinion and clearly buys into some extreme ideologies.
If I were creating the scale for +/- value of cultural exchange I would be assigning a negative value to a lot of what Mr. Spencer gives speeches about, so we have to have systems in place that keep one culture from abusing power and completely censoring another, which ironically, is exactly what Spencer and his posse would do given the chance.
So how do we confront the growing issue of social engineering and mind control, without creating a censorship culture? The practical answer to this question is nuanced thinking and public education.
I currently believe that there is a bias towards culture production in humans that is mirrored in the way physics seems to support life, so at the end of this comparison, I will explain how I think this bias is already preparing us to handle these developing problems through an evolving human sub-consciousness.
So who is KEK and who is Kryon?
In this article we are going to discuss KEK first.
The Cult of Kek, also known as the Church of Kek, is a satirical religion based around the worship of the ancient Egyptian deity Kek[4] (also spelled Kuk or Keku), an androgynous God of darkness and chaos who is often depicted as a frog or frog-headed man in male form or a snake-headed woman in female form. On 4chan, the character Pepe the Frog is often considered a modern avatar of the diety, who uses ancient Egyptian meme magic to influence the world, often by fulfilling the wishes of posts that end in repeating numbers.
The "followers" of this church of KEK claim it is a satirical religion from which the Kekistani culture was born. So is it a cult or a real culture? how do we measure the culture exchange between kekistanians in a non-biased way to define what a real culture actually is?
To attempt to answer this we embedded a couple of volunteers from our Memetics company into their culture for a period of about 6 months to engage with them more closely. What we found was a complicated and evolving hive mind with many layers to peel back.
From our perspective, the kekistanians are a real culture, they also have a branch of their culture which is a real cult, and they have a large network of casual users and nihilists who create the aura of satire which surrounds the kekistanian culture.
So far, this combination of satire and serious has afforded them the time and space to grow into an actual culture capable of influencing political processes which effect billions of people worldwide. In a side by side comparison, the kekistanian culture displays many common traits with other cultures, Here's a list:
1-They have a serious religion based on esoteric mysticism which some of their culture are invested into the idea, while others in their community take it lightly but few who openly scoff at the idea. There are also those in their culture who absolutely believe that they have summoned an intra-dimensional entity which inhabits the personage of Donald Trump and represents the forces of chaos.
All modern religions share occasions where subscribers of the religion claim to be God or that God has or will incarnate here in the future. It is fair then to say that all religions have the potential to spawn cults, and this actually lends credibility to the argument that the kekistanian culture should should be taken seriously as a newly developing culture.
2-They actively engage in American and foreign political processes via structured memetic Warfare and they have regular debates about methods for enacting a kekistanian government structure.
3-They have a military (sort of) Memetic Warfare is a legitimate form of psyops warfare which many major countries have some form of troop capacity for. The kekistanians utilized leaked government documents on memetic Warfare and organized a civilian led Memetics unit which was augmented by bots and multiple user accounts.
This shows a level of sophiscation which requires a working knowledge of technology, complicated social sciences, politics, and most importantly the will to organize and motivate a force and engage in subterfuge and open debate. The satirical countenance of their culture, and our general populations lack of understanding about the effectiveness of memetic Warfare created an opportunity which the kekistanian culture, and the Republican Party also exploited.
Utilizing technology and subterfuge with a lightly militarized force for political advantage, qualifies the kekistanians as a real culture, one which seeks to create a de-centralized government system in the US.
Despite the negative review this far there are aspects to this culture which are redeeming qualities. Because of the nature of a de-centralized human culture, we have to examine the different sub-groups within the hive to examine those redeeming qualities.
Some of the Kekistanians are seriously trying to develope a unique representation of what a decentralized internet based governing system would look like. 👌🏼
Many of them view Establishment politicians like Hillary Clinton in the same way we view Donald Trump. Whether or not that comparison has any grounding in reality is not the point, subjectively, the Kekistanians are acting/reacting off of the same base of human emotions that every other human being works from and some of them have misguided but good intentions. 👌🏼
Some of their culture formed around the objective of protecting the internet from censorship and govt control. The older Americans don't get it but this is the most important technology on the planet for our future At the moment. I don't agree with their methods but protecting it at all costs is paramount.👌🏼
The way that human cultures behave and morph has a lot to do with environmental stress factors. By examining individual subcultures within a bigger culture, it is also possible to target that specific sub-culture and possibly influence it in ways which could alter the behavior of the whole culture over time.
It's also worth discovering which parts of a culture might be worth saving. If the rise of culture is sped up by the internet, you can believe that the fall of other cultures will happen more quickly as well.
The Kekistanians have enjoyed a nice run of culture growth and political subterfuge under the guise of satire, I predict we will see their culture undergo dramatic changes when the repurcussions to these actions counterbalance over time. This could cause some parts of the kekistanian culture to separate off and evolve into a more evolved culture with valuable skills and ideas to contribute to the future.
Understanding how a collective human hive mind forms on the internet and becomes a real culture is important. The speed of information flow and the ability to manipulate the human mind is going to affect each and every generation which grows up in our society. There seems to be some people who are seemingly more immune than others to the affects of being manipulated by propaganda, but it's undeniable that young minds are the most vulnerable. We should expect more of these quickly organized hive minds to emerge.
Based on past and present memes, It appears that humans have a bias towards creating culture, and not all of those cultures turn out good. If culture building is the inevetible consequence of our existence, and the internet acts like fertilizer for human culture growth, shouldn't we strive to understand other cultures and culture science better so that we can identify the good and the bad? Even with the speed of the internet, the human mind only develops so fast, I feel we have the time to get ahead of this culture issue by working to promote the good while seeking new ways to combat the bad without censorship. We will talk more about that Pt. 2 of this series which will be an examination of the entity known as Kryon and the esoteric group called lighworkers.
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