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Meme Magic: Ridicule

The best memes spread because they speak the truth, and the truth leads to freedom

The joke is quietly shared and spread; the people know that they are not alone

Ridicule is a zero-sum game, destructive to one of the parties involved

Ridicule can tear down faster than the other side can rebuild

An indicator that a regime is ripe for a ridicule attack is when that regime passes laws and issues decrees to ban public insults against those holding political power.

FB, twatter …

Ridicule serves several purposes:

• Ridicule raises morale at home.

• Ridicule strips the enemy/adversary of his mystique and prestige.

• Ridicule erodes the enemy’s claim to justice.

• Ridicule eliminates the enemy’s image of invincibility.

• Directed properly at an enemy, ridicule can be a fate worse than death.

Ridicule is vital because:

• It sticks

• The target can’t refute it.

• It is almost impossible to repress, even if driven underground.

• It spreads on its own and multiplies naturally.

• It gets better with each re-telling.

• It boosts morale at home.

• Our enemy shows far greater intolerance to ridicule than we.

• Ridicule divides the enemy, damages its morale, and makes it less attractive to supporters and prospective recruits.

• The ridicule-armed warrior need not fix a physical sight on the target. Ridicule will find its own way to the targeted individual. To the enemy, being ridiculed means losing respect. It means losing influence. It means losing followers and repelling potential new backers.

• To the enemy, ridicule can be worse than death. At least many enemies find death to be a supernatural martyrdom. Ridicule is much worse: destruction without martyrdom: A fate worse than death. And they have to live with it.

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https://www.iwp.edu/docLib/20060209_RidiculeasaWeapon2.2.1.pdf

Every joke is a tiny revolution.

Whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny.

- George Orwell

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas.

And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge the truth.

- John Cleese

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled because laughter is the rust that corrodes every thing

- Milan Kundera, The Joke

The fifth rule: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule.

Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

— Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear Scorn.

- Martin Luther

The devil … the proud spirit … cannot endure to be mocked.

- Sir Thomas More