content: Alternative thoughts on clowns and our connection to them With honkler and the clown world memes, we are critiquing the society, but with the Joaquin Joker memes, we're embracing our identities within it. This post is about the later.  Clowns have always had a connection to creepiness. People have always found them unsettling, and that goes back to court jesters. I think a major source of fear isn't always of something that can harm you, but something horrific that YOU can become. I think zombies and aliens play into that a lot, but the fear of becoming a clown is that you are not just there for entertainment, you are solely the entertainment. They're laughing at you not with you; you ARE the butt of the joke. You didn't write a clever joke, you fell down, bonked your head, and got a pie in the face. Europeans survived so well genetically in the Winter because of in-group preference and trust. The biggest fear we can have is social ostracism, because if you are on your own in the Winter that means death.  Fears are incredibly heritable. It's why we fear werewolves because they remind us of the beasts our ancestors would not be able to see in the night. A group of mice was put in a cage that would spray a citrus smell, and after each time the floor is given a harsh shock. For generations, the mice were never shocked once in their life, and after 5 gens they sprayed the citrus smell for the first time in years and the mice freaked out. They also had a cutout of a hawk fly over the cage and the mice freaked out even though they've never seen one.  Whites have become the butt of the joke "white privilege, white genocide, Easter worshippers etc," you get it. And I think us acknowledging that we have been, are, and likely will be completely fucked is us embracing this identity as the clown. They say the final black pill is a white pill, because now you see the funny side. We still have a desire to be feared, but command no respect amongst other races. They have no respect, they laugh at us. But they DO fear us, and what someone with nothing left to lose and is ostracized is capable of doing. They laugh at the clown, but they fear him. We know we are the clown, the butt of the joke, and now that we do know that, we scare them. Edit: After listening to EMJ talk about monsters of the id I've been thinking about the horror genre and how it can tell us more than any genre because it is based on and relies on fear. Fear is the most powerful emotion, and if you control people's fear in a political sense they will do whatever you tell them. When I talk about horror movies, it's important to focus on the icons. Saw and Sixth Sense are sort of iconic, but only because the screenplays are cleverly written, they don't tap into anything primal. Alien is the fear of rape and unwanted pregnancy, that's why Giger made the xenomorph phallic and you give birth to its baby. Freddy and Jason represent the guilt of irresponsible pre marital sex, and the slashers are the retribution. I haven't heard good stuff on clowns, and since the whole clown meme thing started I'd figure that be a good one to do. I'm also interested in dolls and how they might be more similar to AI horror like Black Mirror than anything. Perhaps dolls are creepy because they are mans attempt to create a surrogate life in an ungodly, unnatural way, and the biproduct is horrific. Black Mirror is scary because by trying to make techno-utopias and artificial life we are trying to play God, and if we forget that we are not God and instead fallen, the result of us trying to be him is pure terror. If anyone gives a shit about this post I'll go more into it. Edit 2: Also I didn't get into Pennywise because it'd be easier to try to understand (((Bob Dylan))) lyrics than King's coked out Jewish fantasies about kids fucking. Clowns are scary, King made the monster look like one, insert Judaism+coke+nonsense, end of story. There, we know everything we need to know about "It"