Are you on the younger side? I was born in the 80s and raised in the 90s by normal parents and I think it might've been one of the best times in human history to be reared and educated. The internet was in its infancy when I started going on it, and none of the divisive strife was happening. Music had top charting songs in every possible genre, TV and movies were about entertaining not indoctrinating, and people were for the most part in the West judged on an individual level not for their group traits. Cancel culture didn't exist. Multiculturalism almost looked like it could work. There were only two genders. Gay people were tolerated but not forced down your throat.
True, I think the internet and social media was the impetus in getting it from academia into the pop culture. Sad as the internet started off with so much promise.
It was the advent of smartphones and social media that ended gatekeeping on the Internet and made it so any bum, sociopath, idiot, and actual or emotional child could make themselves heard and nobody would know they were mentally ill. I'm not exaggerating: if you were to draw a graph of social media, with people as nodes and directed lines showing who influences who, the core social influencers are crazy or stupid people who have just learned how to make "mic drop" statements. Those same people would otherwise be nobodies. The famous people that everyone knows are just vapidly parroting those weirdos.
Probably why I comment, along with my contrarianism.
Was raised to be colorblind, and mostly was. Never judged people individually, but never liked African art, whether it was big titty fat ass traditional sculpture, gaudy color schemes, or inner city music. Still don't judge people individually, and still don't like African art. I'm just not colorblind anymore.
It mostly changed when I got older, and the whole Zimmerman thing happened. It wasn't so much the incident, as the way blacks rallied around an individual because of his blackness, rather than the circumstances around the incident. This got me looking into UCRs a bit, and I was rather shocked at just how massive the black/white disparity was. Then we got to Mike Brown, and blacks rallied the same way, even though the evidence was even more damning towards this particular Nuffin. Racial solidarity was apparently a powerful force, and beyond such trivialities as fact.
By this point, I started to realize just how indoctrinated I had been. The differences are real, and stark. I thought for a long time fatherlessness and culture were the base issue, but studies on genetic disparities in IQ and impulse control between racial backgrounds (even twin studies with unrelated environmental factors) were showing a different picture.
In some ways, I commend what they tried to indoctrinate me with, because it was effective. The lies and omissions were the only hope for a multiracial society. But a system that relies solely on lies and omission is an immoral one.
I could have been a doped up wreck on fucking ADD pills, but my mother got me out of it.
Funny thing, I had a positive opinion of women because of her, but seeing their actions against our humanity tanked it harder than the Wall Street Crash.
Was pretty apolitical and normie up until the Iraq war began when I was in high school and Colon Powell holding yellow cake uranium less than a foot from his head got me thinking we were fed bullshit so I started talking to friends since my school was actually diverse, we had quite a few kids from Syria and Lebanon who's parent's fled the Islamic uprising in the 80s and the Israeli invasion in 82 and they were showing me what REALLY goes on there and I read up on how the CIA dicked around in Iran during their revolt and it backfired so hard it turned them into an Islamic state. Never trusted the government after that and was mostly accurate in figuring out when a world event was forced or organic like Arab spring and Ukraine being CIA ops. Then Obama started his shit which doubly confirmed that neither party is to be trusted and 99.9% of politicians are scum.
In certain ways the system is why I am who I am today.
Back when I was religious when the atheists were telling me "you shouldn't let people tell you to be ashamed for basic parts of the human condition" I've simply extended that line of reasoning to things like race, gender, ethnicity and tribe -- all of which are pretty innate to the human condition.
Back when Jon Stewart was telling us "the media creates narratives it tries to get you to buy into" I've simply extended that basic pattern matching to see all the ways the media is creating narratives to push globo-homo.
I'm sure the leftists responsible for convincing me of these things wouldn't like the direction I've taken their arguments, but I can't help but chuckle a bit whenever I think about it.
Are you on the younger side? I was born in the 80s and raised in the 90s by normal parents and I think it might've been one of the best times in human history to be reared and educated. The internet was in its infancy when I started going on it, and none of the divisive strife was happening. Music had top charting songs in every possible genre, TV and movies were about entertaining not indoctrinating, and people were for the most part in the West judged on an individual level not for their group traits. Cancel culture didn't exist. Multiculturalism almost looked like it could work. There were only two genders. Gay people were tolerated but not forced down your throat.
Damn... the 2020s fucking suck.
i wish we actually had gatekept them.
True, I think the internet and social media was the impetus in getting it from academia into the pop culture. Sad as the internet started off with so much promise.
It was the advent of smartphones and social media that ended gatekeeping on the Internet and made it so any bum, sociopath, idiot, and actual or emotional child could make themselves heard and nobody would know they were mentally ill. I'm not exaggerating: if you were to draw a graph of social media, with people as nodes and directed lines showing who influences who, the core social influencers are crazy or stupid people who have just learned how to make "mic drop" statements. Those same people would otherwise be nobodies. The famous people that everyone knows are just vapidly parroting those weirdos.
Probably why I comment, along with my contrarianism.
Was raised to be colorblind, and mostly was. Never judged people individually, but never liked African art, whether it was big titty fat ass traditional sculpture, gaudy color schemes, or inner city music. Still don't judge people individually, and still don't like African art. I'm just not colorblind anymore.
It mostly changed when I got older, and the whole Zimmerman thing happened. It wasn't so much the incident, as the way blacks rallied around an individual because of his blackness, rather than the circumstances around the incident. This got me looking into UCRs a bit, and I was rather shocked at just how massive the black/white disparity was. Then we got to Mike Brown, and blacks rallied the same way, even though the evidence was even more damning towards this particular Nuffin. Racial solidarity was apparently a powerful force, and beyond such trivialities as fact.
By this point, I started to realize just how indoctrinated I had been. The differences are real, and stark. I thought for a long time fatherlessness and culture were the base issue, but studies on genetic disparities in IQ and impulse control between racial backgrounds (even twin studies with unrelated environmental factors) were showing a different picture.
In some ways, I commend what they tried to indoctrinate me with, because it was effective. The lies and omissions were the only hope for a multiracial society. But a system that relies solely on lies and omission is an immoral one.
The system raised me to think White Nationalism was evil. It took a while but I finally got over that.
I could have been a doped up wreck on fucking ADD pills, but my mother got me out of it.
Funny thing, I had a positive opinion of women because of her, but seeing their actions against our humanity tanked it harder than the Wall Street Crash.
Part of me wonders if every generation gets their own 'version' of this
Haha same here. I remember child me interrogating a teacher who insisted that America wasn't a melting pot, it's a "salad bowl".
That was an art class where we were supposed to be coloring the color wheel and making things out of clay.
The melting pot idea was just brainwashing too but it felt more innocent and optimistic. The best you can do with multiculturalism.
I was born in the late 60s.
This simply isn't the world we were sold.
Was pretty apolitical and normie up until the Iraq war began when I was in high school and Colon Powell holding yellow cake uranium less than a foot from his head got me thinking we were fed bullshit so I started talking to friends since my school was actually diverse, we had quite a few kids from Syria and Lebanon who's parent's fled the Islamic uprising in the 80s and the Israeli invasion in 82 and they were showing me what REALLY goes on there and I read up on how the CIA dicked around in Iran during their revolt and it backfired so hard it turned them into an Islamic state. Never trusted the government after that and was mostly accurate in figuring out when a world event was forced or organic like Arab spring and Ukraine being CIA ops. Then Obama started his shit which doubly confirmed that neither party is to be trusted and 99.9% of politicians are scum.
In certain ways the system is why I am who I am today.
Back when I was religious when the atheists were telling me "you shouldn't let people tell you to be ashamed for basic parts of the human condition" I've simply extended that line of reasoning to things like race, gender, ethnicity and tribe -- all of which are pretty innate to the human condition.
Back when Jon Stewart was telling us "the media creates narratives it tries to get you to buy into" I've simply extended that basic pattern matching to see all the ways the media is creating narratives to push globo-homo.
I'm sure the leftists responsible for convincing me of these things wouldn't like the direction I've taken their arguments, but I can't help but chuckle a bit whenever I think about it.