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18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020

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The Disk: The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex

The disk stands for the distributed idea suppression complex. Not all ideas are good and so idea suppression is very frequently understood as an important concept when we're talking about something like bigotry or violent ideology. Of course we want to suppress certain ideas but these are not the ideas that are principally important inside of the disk. What was originally a function intended to ensure quality control of the narrative became an instrument for something else.

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