ANATOMY OF A MEME: "YOU WILL LIVE IN PODS AND EAT BUGS, AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY"

"Let's get blackpilled together"

by Colin Liddell

The thing that I am most aware of these days is just how inane people have become. Of course most people have always been "intellectually limited," but in the past they tended to trust more intelligent people to do their heavy thinking for them. Now they don't, which means that their fatuousness is just more apparent than it used to be. As evidence of what I mean, take those memes that go under the loose heading of "You will live in pods and eat bugs, and you will be happy." 

These usually consist of something that comes from -- or purports to come from -- the "World Economic Forum" think tank, usually something along the line of how the "evil elites" want us all to own nothing, live in pods, and eat bugs. 

This kind of content fits perfectly into the masochist fantasies of many on the Dissident Right, who merely want to see themselves as weak, disempowered insects, totally at the mercy of a malevolent elite. This is either to excuse their own failures, lack of ambition, nihilism, or sense of impending personal doom through aging, illness, and death. 

Through such memes they can clutch their pearls and be triggered, while also "crab bucketing" their more upbeat friends -- i.e. attempting to drag them down into their own blackpilling. They definitely don't do this because they want to change the world or fight back, although occasionally they will make a pretense that they do.

The falsity of the "live in pods eat bugs" meme pushers can be easily demonstrated, however, because the kind of person who posts this kind of meme will also be the exact same one telling you that Covid is a man-made virus that was released on the World by the same "evil globalists" that want you to live in pods and eat bugs (actually it was the Chinese!). They will also inform you that those same elites want to vaccinate everyone so as to kill most of them and/or render them sterile, in order to depopulate the planet.  

I am not even going to bother saying whether the bug n' pod types are right or wrong in anything they say or meme. Instead I am just going to point to the glaring logical fallacy in their cluster of black pills. 

We are being asked to believe that the "evil elites" are promoting the pod lifestyle by creating a virus that literally forces people to work from home, something that will allow them increasing freedom in where they choose to live, LOL. 

Already we are seeing the result of this on property prices in the UK, with cheaper and more spacious properties in remoter areas rising at a faster rate than small, cramped city properties.

Rural house prices in England and Wales are increasing twice as fast as in cities, triggering a fresh affordability crisis for young people, with hot spots flaring up across the country from Lincolnshire to Lancashire as people seek more space post-pandemic.

Prices are rising 14.2% a year in countryside locations on average compared with less than 7% in urban areas, figures analysed by Hamptons estate agency for the Guardian show. 

Also, how is all that depopulation by vaccine going to promote the pod lifestyle? After all it's going to be pretty hard to persuade the remaining population to live in tiny pods when actual cities have been depopulated and are full of empty properties. 

Either our supposedly omnipotent "evil elites" want highly centralised and densely populated pod cities full of bug eaters, or they want depopulation and dispersal. They can't want both. Or maybe "evil elites" and bug n' pod memes are just code for "I'm a masochist, spank me, spank me!"

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Colin Liddell was the Chief Editor of Affirmative Right and is the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here.