The people you care about are literally too stupid and self-absorbed to even understand your point! Let alone that they have been misled for ... what? Two generations? Three? Normies don't care. That is what makes them normies.
You can't force them to care. Not without concentration camps and death squads. The worst agitators amongst them are literally Stalin's Useful Idiots, and they would be the first up against the wall come the revolution that they crave. It doesn't matter if it is a socialist revolution or a Race revolution or an actual civil war. No one wants these trouble-makers after the fact.
I don't dismiss human agency! I just point out that most people don't want any. Small groups of highly motivated people, in the right place and at the right time, have literally changed the world. It is the only thing that ever has.
The closest I have come to seeing a society wide awareness of these emerging social pressures (critical theory bullshit) are the post Soviet countries. East Germany, etc. I have had conversations with East Germans who are pretty damn aware of the way these things go. The call to fairness, the urging people to "do what is right". Followed by the strong man who promises to sort it all out; then the secret police and the knives in the night. They know where this slick rhetoric leads, and they have taught their kids.
It is the human condition that sheep are common and independent goats are rare. It is literally baked into us on a biological level, and it has allowed us, as a species, to build cities. To rise above villages of (about) 200 people and to record knowledge in our own words that we can hand down to teach the following generations. However while science gives us tools, it is humans who put them to use. We are seeing the old ruling class (now globalists) get their hands on Big Data and the entirety of the press. It is a tool that could do so much good, but ... well. You know. Instead it is being used to peddle post-modern critical theory bullshit in which Step 1 is to burn down civilization and step 2 is Utopia.
I would very much like there to be a way to wake up normies. I really would! But I don't hate them for being normies. I have tried to convince clever, motivated people with every reason to reach understanding. They just start to think of me as anti-social, racist and generally unhinged. Facts literally don't matter to their feelings, and they don't like the way these (cited, verifiable) facts make them feel; so they ignore them.
Even avowed anti-globalists with a history of protesting globalist bullshit still don't have an understanding of basic economics, nor the Law of Unintended Consequences when it comes to social programs. Feminism is the dominant political paradigm and there is nothing I can say to change that. Not for a single person. I have tried! I am no longer invited to Christmas parties, I have literally lost friends!
There are people who understand, who can see my points. They have either started from a very conservatives upbringing (not much found in the English speaking world) or they have gone on their own journey of discovery. It is certainly the reason I hang out here. There are heaps of Tools, but we (mostly) got on this wild ride together.
So I must accept my limitations. I must accept the world as it is, or I will go mad. When I receive new facts, I must incorporate them into my internal model of the world.
And yeah, my Magic 8 Ball tells me that things are going to get tough. Fortunately I live a long, long way from a city with a million people in it. I have useful skills and friends and a family that gives a shit (even if they won't listen).
But I don't despise normies. I don't even despise the functionally stupid, which is probably about 35% of the population. I hope that the stimulus will lead to an appropriate response that is less than catastrophic; But I must accept that their feelings don't care about my facts. Even just to hold a job and feed my kids, I must accept that.
Gizortnik, take heart. When the future arrives, it will not be evenly distributed. It will start somewhere and spread to elsewhere as people and ideas move.
Socialisms is inherently unstable. Fascism less so (see PR China) but even then no regime has been all encompassing. Even China will snuff itself out thanks to their meddling with demographics.
There are too many advantages of actual education and actual national institutions. They will return. Just ... possibly not in the forms that we have come to love, and possibly not in our lifetimes. I just try to focus on my kids and building my future one day at a time.
But please, stop trying to paint me as a damn psychopath. You know me better than that.
Gizortnik,
The people you care about are literally too stupid and self-absorbed to even understand your point! Let alone that they have been misled for ... what? Two generations? Three? Normies don't care. That is what makes them normies.
You can't force them to care. Not without concentration camps and death squads. The worst agitators amongst them are literally Stalin's Useful Idiots, and they would be the first up against the wall come the revolution that they crave. It doesn't matter if it is a socialist revolution or a Race revolution or an actual civil war. No one wants these trouble-makers after the fact.
I don't dismiss human agency! I just point out that most people don't want any. Small groups of highly motivated people, in the right place and at the right time, have literally changed the world. It is the only thing that ever has.
The closest I have come to seeing a society wide awareness of these emerging social pressures (critical theory bullshit) are the post Soviet countries. East Germany, etc. I have had conversations with East Germans who are pretty damn aware of the way these things go. The call to fairness, the urging people to "do what is right". Followed by the strong man who promises to sort it all out; then the secret police and the knives in the night. They know where this slick rhetoric leads, and they have taught their kids.
It is the human condition that sheep are common and independent goats are rare. It is literally baked into us on a biological level, and it has allowed us, as a species, to build cities. To rise above villages of (about) 200 people and to record knowledge in our own words that we can hand down to teach the following generations. However while science gives us tools, it is humans who put them to use. We are seeing the old ruling class (now globalists) get their hands on Big Data and the entirety of the press. It is a tool that could do so much good, but ... well. You know. Instead it is being used to peddle post-modern critical theory bullshit in which Step 1 is to burn down civilization and step 2 is Utopia.
I would very much like there to be a way to wake up normies. I really would! But I don't hate them for being normies. I have tried to convince clever, motivated people with every reason to reach understanding. They just start to think of me as anti-social, racist and generally unhinged. Facts literally don't matter to their feelings, and they don't like the way these (cited, verifiable) facts make them feel; so they ignore them.
Even avowed anti-globalists with a history of protesting globalist bullshit still don't have an understanding of basic economics, nor the Law of Unintended Consequences when it comes to social programs. Feminism is the dominant political paradigm and there is nothing I can say to change that. Not for a single person. I have tried! I am no longer invited to Christmas parties, I have literally lost friends!
There are people who understand, who can see my points. They have either started from a very conservatives upbringing (not much found in the English speaking world) or they have gone on their own journey of discovery. It is certainly the reason I hang out here. There are heaps of Tools, but we (mostly) got on this wild ride together.
So I must accept my limitations. I must accept the world as it is, or I will go mad. When I receive new facts, I must incorporate them into my internal model of the world.
And yeah, my Magic 8 Ball tells me that things are going to get tough. Fortunately I live a long, long way from a city with a million people in it. I have useful skills and friends and a family that gives a shit (even if they won't listen).
But I don't despise normies. I don't even despise the functionally stupid, which is probably about 35% of the population. I hope that the stimulus will lead to an appropriate response that is less than catastrophic; But I must accept that their feelings don't care about my facts. Even just to hold a job and feed my kids, I must accept that.
Gizortnik, take heart. When the future arrives, it will not be evenly distributed. It will start somewhere and spread to elsewhere as people and ideas move.
Socialisms is inherently unstable. Fascism less so (see PR China) but even then no regime has been all encompassing. Even China will snuff itself out thanks to their meddling with demographics.
There are too many advantages of actual education and actual national institutions. They will return. Just ... possibly not in the forms that we have come to love, and possibly not in our lifetimes. I just try to focus on my kids and building my future one day at a time.
But please, stop trying to paint me as a damn psychopath. You know me better than that.