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The LovePill Manifesto

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The LovePill Manifesto
Manifesto
AuthorGRITCULT
Length341 words
Retweets21
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The LovePill Manifesto is a manifesto by GritCult. GritCult's answer to online cynicism: take the lovepill. Love, he argues, is the real resource shortage, and spreading it is the ultimate rebellion.

Summary

The manifesto describes the internet as a cold dark forest of strangers, info hazards and irony, and modern life as a loop between screens of different sizes. Against that nihilism the lovepill is offered as a cosmic alarm clock, a change of frequency.

Its boldest claim is diagnostic: the fertility crisis is a symptom of a deeper love crisis. Love is said to make a person lucky, optimistic and open to abundance, and utopia is redefined as a group of people rather than a place. It is the clearest statement of the optimism behind his posts against blackpilled doom.

Key lines

Where hate is the new currency, spreading love is the ultimate act of rebellion.
Utopia isn't a place, it is a group of people
The real resource shortage in the world right now, is love.
Take the LovePill or remain numb.

Themes

  • love against cynicism
  • screens and isolation
  • the love crisis behind the fertility crisis
  • optimism as rebellion

See also