When Fictions Become Real: Hyperstitional Memetic Warfare

Channel: Hidden AmuraKa

What if ideas don’t simply live inside human beings? What if human beings are how ideas become alive? In this 55-minute documentary, we trace the machinery behind memetic warfare, hyperstition, egregores, reality tunnels, self-fulfilling prophecy, propaganda, cybernetics, and the strange feedback loops that allow symbols to shape the material world. From William S. Burroughs’ “word virus” and Marshall McLuhan’s media environments to Richard Dawkins’ meme, Robert K. Merton’s self-fulfilling prophecy, Robert Anton Wilson’s reality tunnels, and Nick Land’s hyperstition, this film follows a recurring pattern across occultism, sociology, media theory, and internet culture: symbols spread, mutate, recruit behavior, and eventually begin changing the conditions around them. Flags, money, brands, m

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