Black Pills for the Blackpillers: How Things Can Get So Much Worse

So the midterms went worse than probably anyone could have ever expected. A sentiment among many, expressed by someone who I am mutuals with and rather like, @silencedoesgood is that electoral politics are now entirely over, and that a solution is now to balkanize in a rural area and form your own independent communities.

I've encountered and spoken with many with similar ideas, often referred to as Localism. This is not necessarily what Silence Dogood believes, but the basic idea articulated by many goes that interacting with existing power structures is an impossibility, that they are tainted and captured, that attempting to do so inevitably leads to one being warped and captured by the system itself.

The argument is then that the only solution is therefore to exit everything, cease interacting with electoral politics, and to just build more homogeneous, local communities of your own isolated from everything else. While this may seem like something centered on doom and gloom, I actually find it to be wildly optimistic to the point of complete delusion.

Often, this is accompanied by the idea that there will come an inevitable collapse, and once this occurs, those who were outside…