Smile and be goulish

In the horror film Smile (2022) there is an entity that causes people to unalive themselves and once you see someone unalive themselves you are also destined to unalive yourself. The entity crawls inside and takes over the individual, and seeing it makes you become it. 

Recently Zohran Mamdani attended a memorial for the victims of September 11th. Over 100,000 people, many of whom were the families of the victims petitioned him not to come, seeing his affiliation with the same religion that motivated the attackers. He decided to go anyway and then while the victims were crying about their dead loved ones he was seen smiling along side Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Normally I go out of my way to not allow anything to get to me but this time I must admit I was slightly miffed. 

I would never go to a funeral or memorial against the wishes of the victims nor smile during the ceremony while they cried. It is tempting to view Zohrhan as a ghoulish monster without a conscience, but I think it's deeper than that, I think he views the victim's families as less than human, that this view of them as less than human motivated his actions or at least indifference, and that this view leaked through the facade. I also think to view him as less than human is potentially a mistake. 

In the horror movie Smile, to see the monster is to become the monster, and I have a hypothesis that this is how becoming a ghoul works. 

To see another person as less than human is to become less than human yourself. So what causes you to see them as less than human? Why it is their ghoulish behavior which in turn is motivated by them seeing others as less than human.

So it is a chain of inhumanity. And the chain passes from one human to the next like a disease, and it passes through the eyes like the monster in Smile. Someone sees others acting in cruel and inhuman ways, concludes that they are not fully human, and then begins to learn to dehumanize others. Eventually they become the monster who does cruel and inhuman things. The disease literally passes from one person to the next through the eyes.

Once you allow yourself to see another human as less than human you become a ghoul, or at least you start down the path of becoming one. It may take some time for you to get there, you may never actually commit a murder yourself but if you're ever given power you will definitely be dangerous to others. Most people within human tendencies will never become monsters, but only because they never get power.

Mamdani's smile at a memorial signifies the mask dropping a little bit for the ghoulish side of his personality to show through. At some point academic liberals begin to see whites as less than human and at the point they themselves became less than human. Ghoulishness is like a virus, a disease that is transmitted from one to the next and you get infected by this virus by seeing other people acting with cruelty. You are then unable to reconcile how they can be human while acting inhuman so you conclude that they are not fully human. Once you conclude a segment of the population is inhuman you have now become inhuman. Ghoulishness is the Smile Demon transmitting itself from one mind to the next. This may also explain why so many leftists are unable to understand what is said to them, why they practice deliberate misunderstanding. On some intuitive level they grasp that to understand inhumanity is to become inhumanity. The suicidal empathy and refusal to understand is a defensive strategy to prevent from becoming inhuman, and yet so many of them are still inhumane, and the movement as a whole has become inhumane towards white people and especially white men. 

Riddles in the dark, as Tolkien would say. Don't get infected with the Smile virus. But also don't cooperate with other people who are infected, even if they are on your team, and if you absolutely must cooperate with them use them and broom them the instant they cease to be useful. But does using someone as a means to an end make you inhuman? The liberal stands athwart history yelling "stop being racist!"  And then then becomes racist towards whites. The battle to be human is never ending isn't it. 

And this brings us to another conclusion. There may indeed be a genetic predisposition to becoming inhuman, but this is not a predisposition to inhumanity itself but to gullibility. At some point the ghoul was tricked into viewing a segment of the population as less than human. Transcending this inhumane tendency means adopting systems that marginalize the reproduction of people gullible enough to view others as less than human. Wait a minute, is that how liberals and minorities came to view white as replaceable? Wait a minute again, is trying to replace a race of people not profoundly inhuman? Even if you don't succeed at replacing them the mere desire and attempt is an intensely inhuman practice. This seems like a conundrum but maybe it's just a game theory. You must cooperate only with cooperators, punish defectors and be willing to change who you cooperate with instantly on a moment's notice. If anyone can get infected by the demon of inhumanity, then one can never judge any race as either safe or dangerous. You will not solve inhumanity by bringing in other races. (But you will multiply the number of potential failure points) You can only solve it, if solving is such a thing, by addressing it directly. I guess? And since this is a game theory problem, you want to keep the number of different factions to a minimum and I guess that means no immigration. More racial factions won't make people more compassionate, but only make a cooperate-cooperate equilibrium harder to achieve. What are you cooperating towards? You are cooperating towards not viewing each other as subhuman.