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…
Something that I recently realized is that a lot of normies have zero clue whatsoever that society is fundamentally changing. They know something is going wrong, but they can't really figure out what it is, and they don't know any details.
For example, my normie-conservative mother-in-law had no idea about drag storytimes or drag kids, even though Desmond is Amazing was so mainstream that he was on Good Morning America a few years ago. She just could not bring herself to believe me about the prevalence of this stuff until I showed her pictures and news articles. Then she became viscerally upset about those poor kids, far moreso than I've ever been. That is when I realized how desensitized that I and the other people here have become. We all understand that this is pure evil that must be stopped, but we see so much of it, that we lose sight of just how incomprehensibly evil this is to older generations.
Basically, they replaced clowns for drag queens.
No one would have batted an eye at a generalized "dressup story time", where the storyteller was dressed in an appropriate manner to whatever was being read. But why does it have to be drag queens?
I know what you mean and don't understand how people get that way. Average house prices has gone up 5 fold in the last 20 years. If that's purely due to inflation (and there's probably some immigration population increase at play), the dollar has lost 80 percent of its buying power in less than a generation.
This has been going on for a hundred years and, as long as you buy anything, can't possibly be missed. How is anyone not mad all the time?
Oh, some of them know. I brought up my dismay about the state of the world a couple years ago (when everyone was still freaking out) while I was talking with my parents, and my mother basically shrugged and said "The world is changing", as if it's just how it is like the sun rises every morning and we're all just powerless to stop it.
I wonder how far the normies will have to be pushed before they start going "You know, this isn't okay.", like, do they need to rape babies on live TV? Somehow I can still picture that cold indifference even to that.
"A basement full of dead children, I dont care" - Sam Harris