We often mock normies for being hypocrite when they are virtue signaling in order to feel more moral or just simply superior to us.
The thing is virtue signaling, like most self persuasion mechanism, certainly has an influence on the person doing it. But first thing first : what is virtue signaling ?
Virtue signaling is certainly a method to appear morally superior in a given social circle, wether rather vast or not. In this social circles, you have the virtuous signaler, and you have the receptors of the signal. In fact, you could reduce the social circle to the one person that is the one virtue signalling, for the person virtue signalling is also using her own perception of self to shift on a moral scale that is already a social construction : using how she would like to perceive herself in order to make others perceive it that way.
Now consider this. You wake up everyday, and some chill friend is here to tell you every once in a while that you are clever and socially superior to others. That would feel good, and at some point you would begin to believe it. And, at some point, if you were facing a morally challenging dilemma, you would have to act accordingly to this socially constructed perception of yourself : that is basically what religions has been enforcing to shape a moral self perception into the immoral masses for two millenium.
Now replace religion / yes man friend by basically yourself.
You want to look good towards other people, so by birtue signalling you state a certain standards publicly, a standard that will somehow "oblige" you to act accordingly, when needed.
Does it mean that virtue signalling makes you a better person ? Well, not guenuinly, but it could somehow shape a normie mind into a socially acceptable thoughts producing machine.
Rather than a good person, I think it will enforce a neurotypical way of thinking by always asking yourself : how would the normie crowd react to what I say I'd do ? It's a form of social controle, just like the police, except it takes place right inside your fucking head.
How to heal the normies from this obvious perversion of the mind ? is the question we should all be asking by now.
The thing is virtue signaling, like most self persuasion mechanism, certainly has an influence on the person doing it. But first thing first : what is virtue signaling ?
Virtue signaling is certainly a method to appear morally superior in a given social circle, wether rather vast or not. In this social circles, you have the virtuous signaler, and you have the receptors of the signal. In fact, you could reduce the social circle to the one person that is the one virtue signalling, for the person virtue signalling is also using her own perception of self to shift on a moral scale that is already a social construction : using how she would like to perceive herself in order to make others perceive it that way.
Now consider this. You wake up everyday, and some chill friend is here to tell you every once in a while that you are clever and socially superior to others. That would feel good, and at some point you would begin to believe it. And, at some point, if you were facing a morally challenging dilemma, you would have to act accordingly to this socially constructed perception of yourself : that is basically what religions has been enforcing to shape a moral self perception into the immoral masses for two millenium.
Now replace religion / yes man friend by basically yourself.
You want to look good towards other people, so by birtue signalling you state a certain standards publicly, a standard that will somehow "oblige" you to act accordingly, when needed.
Does it mean that virtue signalling makes you a better person ? Well, not guenuinly, but it could somehow shape a normie mind into a socially acceptable thoughts producing machine.
Rather than a good person, I think it will enforce a neurotypical way of thinking by always asking yourself : how would the normie crowd react to what I say I'd do ? It's a form of social controle, just like the police, except it takes place right inside your fucking head.
How to heal the normies from this obvious perversion of the mind ? is the question we should all be asking by now.
