Alright may as well talk about it, the recent Archcast brought this to light but everything from trans pushes to how people apply social media to the real world this is something that's been on my mind a lot.
We should have in our heads a clear distinction between what is fiction and what is reality. Reality is the empirical, from our senses, experience and anaylsis of the environment. Fiction is the opposite, it be based on aspects of reality but isn't required and should have little to no consequences on reality.
We've always had issues with the two with superstitions and mysticism but usually they were either because of lack of knowledge or to remember real world dangers (a tale of a monster attacking if you build there is a warning tsunamis hit this area)
But now it's gone nuts. We have a media encouraging delusions on sex, right and left saying drawings are immoral yet the left say that teaching kids about sex positions is fine and that a woman can beat up a man twice her size.
If I were to pin point when the acceleration pedal was pushed down on this, I'd say it's when normies hit the Internet. They were used to every communication being with an actual person that when they got on the Internet, they didn't understand the etiquette that you can be whatever you want here. They have never caught onto that distinction and it's why we see so many pushes to remove anonymity.
Then there's the lolicon 'debate', it's more a canary in the coal mine for us all than a hill not to die on. Look at everything that happened to it first, payment processors refusing service, refusal to allow content despite meeting tos, criminalisation in some countries of a drawing. This started with fictional content but has bled so easily into speech laws, the fictional was the thin edge of the wedge to then target the real.
I'll stop here to not go too long tldr; The West at large has lost a lot of it's ability to tell fiction from reality and it's led to the mass adoptions of delusions along with using fictional content to target the real world
I would counter-point, they know reality, they just don't care or accept it because they have the collective mindset of children. No one has forced them to grow up and the comfortable living in the west has only served to coddle them further. Until these people face absolute hopelessness, reality will never be a drug they ascribe to.
I would agree with this slightly but argue that at least they still don't understand the Internet by this example
Onlyfans and adult streaming sites
Women go on there, make money showing off their bodies and then wonder why no man wants to date them because that was something they did online.
They don't understand that while you can be anonymous on the Internet, what they effectively did was dox themselves so they lost all that anonymity and face the same repercussions as being known as that easy chick in college. It's also why they were mad at virtual stream girls as THEY understood the Internet of you need a barrier between you and everyone else to maintain anonymity.
That is product of the Peter Pan syndrome. They are still living in the mindset of having 'Daddy' pay for everything. That is the problem with the modern person, but especially most women. They believe there are no consequences once you achieve the goal of money coming in. The easiest way to do it is the best.
Unfortunately, at this point, when they do come crashing down, they still won't face reality and will find something else to blame their fortunes upon. The window to learn has passed, it's a continued child-like mindset for the rest of their lives.
As I've said many times, we are going to get a sudden increase of bitter 40 year old women with no meaningful relationships very soon thanks to this mindset