I'm not young, and my health is not good, so I think I will live another 10 years (or maybe a little more) at best, and it pains me that almost, almost everywhere I look, I see degenerate things which attack our culture, our life, you know the drill.
What do you think, will I-we see a turning back to normal life, or is this just a hopeless dream?
Thanks in advance, and I wish every user of kotakuinaction2.win a happy, healthy 2022!
Yes.
Lots of black-pills here, but I reject them because they don't match reality.
When the economy collapses, which won't be too much longer, it's going to cause a major collapse of the entire Social Justice industry. As it becomes clear that the right and center are openly and avidly opposed to all the current Social Justice over-reach, the racket won't be able to sustain itself in HR and PR. Lots of people are going to lose their jobs.
I anticipate that, in response to the collapsing world economy, we will see the rise of a few more American folkway religions and the beginning of a proper 4th Great Awakening, and likely a re-rise of Christendom by some adapted form.
In response, the Left will likely abandon secularism and embrace what is currently understood as "Liberation Theology". George Floyd will literally be canonized in this pseudo-religion.
The abandonment of that position will cause a Preference Cascade in the mainstream, which will probably push a lot of normies to a more religious right-wing trend, and the tent of the political right will grow to adopt some.
Liberation Theology won't exactly be the most popular thing in the world, but it will have plenty of rabid adherence. What you'll have, probably by 2030-2040 is the west divided between a kind of Rightwing Neo-Protestantism and a schism induced Reactionary Catholicism, in cultural conflict with Liberation Theology which will engulf most of the Progressive Christian doctrines and a portion of institutional Catholocism.
I think you've got a solid analysis of the left's direction. Liberation Theology and the solidification of "Woke" into a secular religion seems very possible. In a lot of ways, it's the inevitable result of the earlier Liberal Super-Protestantism and Universalism of the 20th century: a religion robbed of its cultural root-- Christianity without an understanding of Christ.
What I am not sure is how big that 'tent on the right' has to be. Perversely, I think the core element of the right's rebirth must be quite narrow if it's to succeed.
If we get a 4th Great Awakening, the majority of Christian churches have been at least partially converged-- so even if a preference cascade in rejection of wokists/liberation theology causes a societal movement to the right, the odds of the nexus of that mass movement being corrupted by some flavor of neo-marxist social-justice nonsense will be high.
A narrower range of followers, with a strong gatekeeping mechanism, might actually allow the development of an appropriate spiritual response to the woke... but I worry that the usual cultural actors will be looking to Scofield any actual Awakening.
I don't really know either. That's gonna be up for debate. I can only assume that since "right" really means nothing more than "not Left", that tent is going to be pretty big. However, who actually sets the principles behind this right-wing Neo-Protestantism is still up in the air. I'm serious when I say that I may live to see a day where Jordan Peterson is canonized.
Yeah, I should look into DM-ing more D&D games