A passage from Carl Sagan's book written 25 years ago
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25 years ago it was only one minor worry among many. People ignored it, and we are today living the consequences.
However I think the bigger threat our parents failed to recognize in time was the Internet linking the globe. (specifically social media and cheap mobile devices). Instant worldwide communication of whatever random thoughts people had to everyone else destroyed the communications firewall that prevented mind viruses and negative culture from spreading too fast.
PC culture starting dying with the advent of the Web. We should have taken the opportunity to spread American exceptionalism to the rest of the world. Instead Americans dumbed down their interactions with others in order not to offend sensibilities and to be friendly global citizens, and imported their watered down rights, lack of individualism, and bad policies into American society. The generation coming up now has no love of free speech, and people who escaped communist regimes now find that authoritarianism is creeping up in the last place they expected it would.
The USA exported the values of Equality and Universal Democracy to the rest of the world. You might call this Exceptionalism, I call it a war crime. Progressives need to learn to stop forcing their bullshit values onto everyone else and leave other cultures alone to solve their problems as they see fit.
Totally agree. Nearly every single multicultural rape and murder in the past sixty years can be directly blamed on the exportation of America's "allow yourself to be conquered in the name of diversity" bullshit, and that's a lot of rape and murder.
If I coated the earth in a magic dust that turned women into mindless automations without any threat assessment capabilities, I would be rightly blamed for all the horrible shit that happens to them when they blindly walk into dangerous situations en masse. But that is quite literally what globalism has done, except instead of a magic dust it's a memetic contagion.