Culture today celebrates mental illness, experiencing trauma (not OVERCOMING trauma, but experiencing it), and generally weakness/discrimination/lack of success/suffering.
Not to get overly philosophical, but it has many similarities to the case of the Hegelian dialectic. (This is very broad strokes, and very generalized.)
First comes the idea, thesis. Think Western civilization. Think of European and American civilization as largely created by strong, European, men (and of course women too). Think the founding fathers, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and other strong and masculine heroes from the early days of America.
Next comes the reaction, the antithesis. The reaction defines itself in opposition to the thesis. Where the thesis is masculine, stoic, and strong, the anti-thesis is feminine (or anti-masculine), emotional, and delights in physical emotional weakness.
Whatever the thesis is, the antithesis is not.
I do not at all mean to make this as an anti-women argument, or as a pro-white nationalist argument, or anything along those lines. I'm making the point that the forces that are winning the culture war today largely define themselves strictly as the opposite of their enemy. And they define their enemy as white and more generally as whiteness and masculinity.
This is a good analysis. You can see this clearly with TDS. The Left has defined itself as the opposite of Trump, and this has led to bizarre and unprecedented hypocrisy. Whether it's people trash talking big pharma and the CIA for decades or trashing the "Trump vaccine" just last year, those same people have now adopted and fully ego-invested stances that are 180 degrees removed from their own "staunchly held beliefs" of 6-12 months ago.
The problem we're having is pretty simple: Western Civilization was built on a lot of objectively good ideas, and the only antithesis for such ideas is, well, evil. How do you "synthesize" with something that brings nothing good to the table?
And insofar as it's a white or male thing, I think we're simply dealing with a coalition of the dregs. The anti-white delegation and the anti-male delegation are not ideologically aligned, but they can establish a working relationship based on their shared opposition to Western Civilization.
I think I just inadvertently reverse engineered intersectionalism.
Culture today celebrates mental illness, experiencing trauma (not OVERCOMING trauma, but experiencing it), and generally weakness/discrimination/lack of success/suffering.
Not to get overly philosophical, but it has many similarities to the case of the Hegelian dialectic. (This is very broad strokes, and very generalized.)
First comes the idea, thesis. Think Western civilization. Think of European and American civilization as largely created by strong, European, men (and of course women too). Think the founding fathers, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and other strong and masculine heroes from the early days of America.
Next comes the reaction, the antithesis. The reaction defines itself in opposition to the thesis. Where the thesis is masculine, stoic, and strong, the anti-thesis is feminine (or anti-masculine), emotional, and delights in physical emotional weakness.
Whatever the thesis is, the antithesis is not.
I do not at all mean to make this as an anti-women argument, or as a pro-white nationalist argument, or anything along those lines. I'm making the point that the forces that are winning the culture war today largely define themselves strictly as the opposite of their enemy. And they define their enemy as white and more generally as whiteness and masculinity.
This is a good analysis. You can see this clearly with TDS. The Left has defined itself as the opposite of Trump, and this has led to bizarre and unprecedented hypocrisy. Whether it's people trash talking big pharma and the CIA for decades or trashing the "Trump vaccine" just last year, those same people have now adopted and fully ego-invested stances that are 180 degrees removed from their own "staunchly held beliefs" of 6-12 months ago.
The problem we're having is pretty simple: Western Civilization was built on a lot of objectively good ideas, and the only antithesis for such ideas is, well, evil. How do you "synthesize" with something that brings nothing good to the table?
And insofar as it's a white or male thing, I think we're simply dealing with a coalition of the dregs. The anti-white delegation and the anti-male delegation are not ideologically aligned, but they can establish a working relationship based on their shared opposition to Western Civilization.
I think I just inadvertently reverse engineered intersectionalism.