At this point, everyone knows I'm hugely into books.
It's just so depressing how even book people are about nothing more than intentionally creating this self-perpetuating "community" of anxiety.
You can't go to any freaking book-related online space without people asking for permission to not finish a book. "Is it okay to DNF?????"
Same with doing shit to your own books. Do not write into them, do not open them too much or the spine will crack. Get a panic attack because two fucking photons touched the book and how it will be DAMAGED.
"I am having a panic attack because maybe I didn't get all the references in this book."
The same with every hobby. Cooking? You are not environmentally friendly enough, you are not authentic enough, this is wrong, that is wrong.
Hell, I am kiiinda thinking about a Switch, I looked at Animal Crossing and people are freaking the fuck out at others for not playing the game "right". Others are having depression because their islands are not aesthetic enough.
How did the internet turn everyone so fucking neurotic over the things we were supposed to do as FUN? And I am not even just talking about SJW things, but every community is about "doing it the right way" even though it doesn't matter and there doesn't exist a right way?
The Floyd thing blew up so fast, so far and wide, that it became very clear the left was merely waiting on a starter pistol event to go full “revolution”. That’s just how their ideology is structured; wait for a flashpoint, any flashpoint, and then rush your agenda through as many doors as you can. Same thing happened with gamergate. All of these converged communities and institutions are just waiting for the opportunity to toss all the wrongthinkers to the curb/in the gulag.
Think about this relationship. We’re locked into a democracy with people who are actively striving to flip the table and will use any provocation, no matter how questionable, as an excuse to destroy and remake society. That’s not a union. That’s a hostage situation.
They think they're in an existential war for survival.
You think you're in a debate club.
FIGHT.
That observation deserves a meme!
It's not my line--I can't remember who originally said it.
But I loved it so much that I kept it around.
Completely agree