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…
History begins when humans start maintaining a historical record. You are suggesting that the last impact destroyed the existing historical artifacts, and despite humans starting to create new cultural artifacts soon after, none of those cultural artifacts recorded the fact that their previous cultural artifacts had just been destroyed.
And all of this is despite the more plausible explanation - that people simply hadn't started creating historical artifacts before that point - is backed up by the fact that such cultures have continued to exist all the way up to European colonisation.
90% of humans live within a few miles of a coastline. Catastrophic changes in weather/water levels/etc are going to do a number on any “historical artifacts” that make it through the firestorm from the impact.
Literally almost every civilizations foundational myth includes these claims of “we are the remnants of a once great power, what was left after calamity”. Greeks, Egyptians, Indians (both feather and dot), and so on. The “world flood” myth is another omnipresent one. Just because you call them “myth” doesn’t mean those cultures didn’t call them “historical record”.