Narrative Warfare: Fork, Replace, Win

I'm going to follow on a post I read at Vox Populi today, which in turn followed a statement by Davis Aurini. I'm going on these two points. Respectively, from Aurini and from Vox Day:

Rather than trying to distribute the ideas – and handing them over to the Obsessives and Extremists who turn them into a farce – we need to own them. We need to implement them.

We must go out there and create.

And

The truth is that the SJWs are creating more opportunities for us than we can reasonably pursue. The trick is to identify the institutional weakness and hit it hard. For example, one thing I've learned about the comic industry is that the artists are often not paid royalties, just a flat per-page rate. So, one thing we are going to do to ensure that we eventually secure the best talent over time is, in addition to the flat fee, pay royalties for an extended period of time on our comic book sales, just as we do on our regular book sales.

You can't start at the top, but you can come up with a plan to get there eventually. The Castalia House team goes over every print book carefully; if you compare our earliest print editions to the latest ones, you can see that we're continually trying to improve the product. Creation is a dynamic process, and so the more you focus on improvement, the more you will gradually improve, until one day people suddenly blink and say, "Hey, you know, that's actually rather good."

It's no longer enough to just complain. To make this useful, to actually win, you have to Fork And Replace.

This is why there's been such a push to form new ventures in SF/F publishing such as Castalia House, Superversive prcess, and Silver Empire. That's why Alt-Hero is going to become huge presently (watch out for the Freestartr campaign). That's why the Old-School Renaissance arose in tabletop RPGs. Indie videogame developers are legion.

Take a look at the enemies of Civilization. They achieved their power in this manner; they forked their target, establishing a parallel structure that they deliberately intended to develop into an outright replacement for the institution that they targeted. Then they did just that; it's why governments resist things like organized crime syndicates- they're forked shadow governments intended to parallel them and (in time) replace them.

We've got to be like the Internet: interpret SocJus bullshit as damage, route around it, and choke it off from the network for our own good. Which means that, while all of the new publishers, developers, artists, even capital-raisers (Freestartr), are nice we have to go for the big load-bearing pillars: banking and Internet access

We need our own banks, payment processors, domain registrars, and other parallel institutions that the enemy currently controls and has no shame in making into chokeholds intended to compel compliance to those outside the cult. We need to be no less shameless in the employment and promotion of our own side, in preferring our own first and foremost over others, especially when it comes to the vitals of economics. They've done just that to us, at our catastrophic cost, and will continue to club us to death with our own altruism and idealism until we are extinct or we drink the demon's blood and become one of them.

Because that's the cost of "peace" with them. Total submission to them and the Narrative. In other words:

Not. Acceptable.

We fork what they corrupted. We build in parallel to it. We replace what their cancer killed. Then we win once they collapse.

Fork. Replace. Win.

And stop whining about doing it dirty. Victory needs no justification. Defeat allows none. Conquest justifies.