Lily Tang Williams always says the same thing, what we see is very similar to how the cultural revolution started. Some of her relatives in China still celebrate Mao.
I used to wonder that. After the last few years, I don't any more. It has become abundantly clear to me that 90% of humans are NPCs and will simply obey the programming of whoever they perceive as the most powerful in their circle of influence. If it's not the parents, it's almost unerringly either the government or the media, and right now the government is the media.
And some people wonder how members of the Red Guard could murder their parents for Mao's glorious revolution.
Lily Tang Williams always says the same thing, what we see is very similar to how the cultural revolution started. Some of her relatives in China still celebrate Mao.
Millennial and zoomer leftist activists are much dumber and far, far crueler than the Red Guards ever could have imagined being.
I used to wonder that. After the last few years, I don't any more. It has become abundantly clear to me that 90% of humans are NPCs and will simply obey the programming of whoever they perceive as the most powerful in their circle of influence. If it's not the parents, it's almost unerringly either the government or the media, and right now the government is the media.
That's really what it comes down to. Such a messed up kid that they take disputes with their family to reddit to farm karma and seek validation.