Like, I appreciate that the Overton Window shifts, but there’s no way this shit is organic…
It’s everywhere, now. Not just college campuses. Not just the internet. Not just cable news. In urban Australia, it is almost literally inescapable (unless you never turn on the TV, never use a streaming service, never read the news, and practically never leave your suburb).
It’s… Bizarre. And people have become afraid to speak out, or question it.
Hell, I even know some of my own family members (and family friends) have started to “adopt” political positions fundamentally at odds to the beliefs they claimed to hold, less than a decade ago… So much so that it takes getting them in a one-on-one, face to face situation to admit they secretly don’t believe what they pretend to, when around the rest of the family, or that they secretly don’t believe that the endless boosters and masks will “protect” them from this virus that everyone around me claims to still fear…
It’s… I don’t think I’ve ever seen society be this… Conformist, and cowed, and fundamentally… “Degenerate”.
Honestly, from where I sit, it feels like the loudmouth activists have won, and “we”/normies have fundamentally lost.
It’s fucking disillusioning AF. Just look at any “documentary” that covers how things have “changed” in the last 2-3 decades. I promise you, you’ll see the trend…
Something’s gotta give. Society can only bend so far left before it a) breaks, or b) snaps back.
More and more this feels like the last days of Athens/Rome/Constantinople. I very much doubt we have the technology and wherewithal to prevent a similar collapse.
Stay sane, y’all. I’m not sure how much longer I can keep pushing back, for what that’s worth…
Thinking about this further: there must be a point on the (highly biased, of course) HDI wherein a country becomes like this. Because virtually every single “woke” country is highly “developed”, with extremely low birth rates…
That’s about the only things they have in common, though. Non-majority black, moderate to high latitude, post-industrial (lol, postmodern more like), rich, and highly “developed”…
Fun times…
I’ve often considered going somewhere like Poland or Uruguay for these exact reasons. Though Uruguay at least will be just the same, in a few years…
I look at it the way I view World War I. The reality was the empires were shrinking, and all they had was each other's land. So, they waited for a reason to have a giant war to take over the other empires.
Now look at today. Almost every reason why many things exist are shrinking, but the people in those news stations, schools, and printers need a reason to keep going. They are rallying to take over each other, and use whatever political excuse they have to do so. It has nothing to do with LGBT racism or sexism, and more to do with keeping power.
Around 2006 when we entered the great recession, I saw how all of the companies and business platforms being destroyed were for older out moded ideas. The entire era is those businesses trying to stay in power, and take over their own replacements.
Journalism doesn't need a station, a newspaper anymore. They were a major wing of thought control. A lot of money and political power went into it to control the narrative. With all that being destroyed, the power is also destroyed. Those with that power still want to weld it, so they make up wars, rumours of war, and plagues to control the populace. This gives them power through the methods they desire.
As more and more old ideas are entered into this era of disruption, we see them join in on the big scare tactics.