Yeah, I’m somewhat similar (though male, and much younger).
My views on things haven’t necessarily changed. It’s just that the Overton window has shifted so much that, well, apparently maintaining those same beliefs makes me a “right wing bigot”…
Specifically believing that race-based reparations are unfair, that place names should remain in English, that drag queens should not read to children in public libraries, that there are only two genders, and that “personal pronouns” make you look like a fool…
None of this shit was particularly mainstream a decade/15 years ago. I didn’t support it then, and I certainly don’t now.
Yet all of my woke “friends”, naturally, pretend they do, and that they always have, for that matter…
It is rather odd how these "pronoun" things became an overnight success story along with having multiple fake genders.
In the four years between my high school and college graduation, it feels like the people and culture I knew disappeared and just got replaced by skinwalkers.
I think it comes down to a large section of the population not actually being people or even really sentient. They're just animals reacting to stimuli rather than actually possessing any capacity for cognition. They got bombarded by social media stimuli pushing all this weird shit and reacted to it accordingly. They never had any thoughts or positions of their own to begin with, no reasoned stances or conclusions that they had arrived at by thinking about things.
I think it comes down to a large section of the population not actually being people or even really sentient. They're just animals reacting to stimuli rather than actually possessing any capacity for cognition.
At this point I'm not sure that I would call them people, since they don't appear to have souls. This isn't even a religious thing for me. I've interacted with dozens, perhaps hundreds of them, and when I look into their eyes, I don't see an intelligent, curious being. I see a herd animal, who would rather let their offspring be eaten by lions than take the risk of standing their ground, who flees with the other buffalo when the herd moves.
It's been one of the most disturbing realizations I've had over the last decade.
Yeah, I’m somewhat similar (though male, and much younger).
My views on things haven’t necessarily changed. It’s just that the Overton window has shifted so much that, well, apparently maintaining those same beliefs makes me a “right wing bigot”…
Specifically believing that race-based reparations are unfair, that place names should remain in English, that drag queens should not read to children in public libraries, that there are only two genders, and that “personal pronouns” make you look like a fool…
None of this shit was particularly mainstream a decade/15 years ago. I didn’t support it then, and I certainly don’t now.
Yet all of my woke “friends”, naturally, pretend they do, and that they always have, for that matter…
It’s rather sad.
It is rather odd how these "pronoun" things became an overnight success story along with having multiple fake genders.
In the four years between my high school and college graduation, it feels like the people and culture I knew disappeared and just got replaced by skinwalkers.
I think it comes down to a large section of the population not actually being people or even really sentient. They're just animals reacting to stimuli rather than actually possessing any capacity for cognition. They got bombarded by social media stimuli pushing all this weird shit and reacted to it accordingly. They never had any thoughts or positions of their own to begin with, no reasoned stances or conclusions that they had arrived at by thinking about things.
At this point I'm not sure that I would call them people, since they don't appear to have souls. This isn't even a religious thing for me. I've interacted with dozens, perhaps hundreds of them, and when I look into their eyes, I don't see an intelligent, curious being. I see a herd animal, who would rather let their offspring be eaten by lions than take the risk of standing their ground, who flees with the other buffalo when the herd moves.
It's been one of the most disturbing realizations I've had over the last decade.