I think most prefer a license to abuse rather than fight power. You make it okay to bully someone and suddenly everyone is strapping on their finest oppression boots. Besides, if they're all vaxed, they're automatically on the pro-vax side and have to either ostracise the unvaxed or recognise themselves as the uncool kids.
I'm still surprised how kids weren't more rebelious..? I mean kids would throw massive tantrums because they can't wear tiny skirts or hats and yet they all obediently follow the mask rule?
Because the TV, movies, and video games aren't telling them to defy that one.
Media subverts everything it doesn't like with messaging, so of course it tells girls to defy societal norms and they should want to dress like sluts. Of course it tells boys to be simps interpret their value in terms of what they give to women.
I'm not surprised. They're drilled into blind obedience daily, are actively kept from positive role models for individualism, and their parents are too weak to provide one themselves.
Humans are typically very malleable as children, most obediently conform to the society they're exposed to, the ones who don't are the noble minority. Every dictatorship in history has proven it.
It's also why when rebellion is in it occasional cool phase that the most vigorous discussion inevitably revolves around who are just posers. Because only some of them are sticking it to the man because they want to, they rest are just sticking it to the man because they were told that's what they have to do to be cool.
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” ~ Aldous Huxley
I think most prefer a license to abuse rather than fight power. You make it okay to bully someone and suddenly everyone is strapping on their finest oppression boots. Besides, if they're all vaxed, they're automatically on the pro-vax side and have to either ostracise the unvaxed or recognise themselves as the uncool kids.
I'm still surprised how kids weren't more rebelious..? I mean kids would throw massive tantrums because they can't wear tiny skirts or hats and yet they all obediently follow the mask rule?
All you need to do is tell them that those nasty grown-up conservatives don't want them doing it.
Because the TV, movies, and video games aren't telling them to defy that one.
Media subverts everything it doesn't like with messaging, so of course it tells girls to defy societal norms and they should want to dress like sluts. Of course it tells boys to be simps interpret their value in terms of what they give to women.
I'm not surprised. They're drilled into blind obedience daily, are actively kept from positive role models for individualism, and their parents are too weak to provide one themselves.
Humans are typically very malleable as children, most obediently conform to the society they're exposed to, the ones who don't are the noble minority. Every dictatorship in history has proven it.
It's also why when rebellion is in it occasional cool phase that the most vigorous discussion inevitably revolves around who are just posers. Because only some of them are sticking it to the man because they want to, they rest are just sticking it to the man because they were told that's what they have to do to be cool.
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” ~ Aldous Huxley