Nothing particularly insightful, but… It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that this phenom is becoming more common…
Like, I’ve had some really bad stuff happen this week, because I let the wrong person into my life (again), but beyond that… Even just “going out into the world” can be so fucking hostile, it’s really no surprise people retreat like that…
“Social dysfunction” isn’t as obvious where I am as it might be elsewhere. Certainly, you don’t really see it, but have a conversation with the wrong person, or even just sit and observe long enough, and it becomes readily apparent that we’ve become a wider society of petty hostility and just general… Unpleasantness.
Places like NYC, Sydney and arguably Tokyo were always like this, but it’s largely “leaked” far beyond that now. Everyone feels like they’re out to get each other, or at each other’s throats, and that if you don’t play along with the odd beliefs of the person you are talking to? They might just decide to do something really nasty…
A 95-year old with dementia was tasered to death in a nursing home in Sydney a week ago (“She was carrying a knife!”). Just yesterday, a huge fire engulfed a massive historic building in Sydney, and no one put it out, until it was a raging inferno enough to destroy the entire thing (the circumstances of all that are very weird)…
Then there has been escalating brawls and attacks on police in several QLD cities this week.
It all feels… Increasingly hostile. And this is in Australia… “Commie shithole” aside, some of these things are quite unheard of…
So… Filtering this down into “ordinary interactions”, where people have become so hypersensitive and hostile about every disagreement, every little thing… It’s no wonder, honestly, that some young men have decided “Fuck this, why the fuck should I even bother anymore?”
I know I feel that way about “friendship” at this point, so for me, that’s pretty damn understandable…
Just my 10c.
As much as I've gotten better at withholding my disdain for the Collective, I still seethe at the elements of Control. But it's less a result of the elitist control itself and more the fact that they're abusing their charge. The puppets submit to puppeteering by their nature, it's just not nice seeing them vandalised.
I often think of Slavoj Zizek's short breakdown of They Live, along these lines. There's little I agree with him on these days and he can't resist pigeonholing the movie as a classic of 'the left', but his analysis of why the fight scene lasts so long rings true. People will actively resist and fight against 'putting the glasses on', because their deluded existence is the more comfortable one. Even the knowledge on some level that they're deluded can't easily overturn this.
No problem, if it seems like wisdom to at least one other person then that's something. On blackpill detox, I have vague ideas of tying together everything that helped me and repackaging it in some form, at some date, but it's hard to know where to start because it varies so much on everybody's respective starting point. So rather than blather in circles, for now I cop out and tend to go back to 'know thyself'.