the post about the Ghost Stories dub got me thinking, many of the people who are super woke today , yet when it was popular to be edgy in the past they were super edgy and politically incorrect. How many people are woke just because its popular to be woke now?
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Yes and it's a terrifying rabbit hole to go down, that the public at large are EXTREMELY susceptible to a crowd mentality that the can do horrific actions because 'it's popular and everyone else is doing it'
You don't even have to go back a century to see that in history, this woke shit is just the current western form of that, the only reason it's getting more backlash quickly is because it directly inconveniences people nowadays.
Coming to this realization was the final step in my rejection of liberal democracy, much less anything to its left. The masses ('normies' or 'NPCs' if you will) functionally have no agency and can only ever be directed by the few, as it has always been: these days electoralism and the press exist to give them the illusion that they have choices and are their own masters when if anything, their enslavement is more total than even under the worst and cruelest kings in history. The likes of Qin Shi Huang, Caracalla, Al-Hakim and Tamerlane can only dream of the modern surveillance state and enormous self-ruling bureaucracies, while even Lenin and Stalin would be taken aback by the stupidity of the modern populace and how they are so eager to debase themselves that mothers would line up to castrate their children & submit them to the 'affections' of drag queens.
How can a prisoner be persuaded to break his or her shackles when they don't even know that they've been chained up, and that if they were, those shackles are actually totally necessary and a Good Thing™? As for the wardens of this 'prison', history proves that the ones who promise their prisoners freedom if only they'd help in taking over the entire prison are invariably the most depraved and sadistic of them all.
Here's a fun/horrific game you can play to illustrate this:
With this knowledge, look at fictional dystopian or authoritarian societies, your Equalibrium, Psycho-pass, logan's run or the recent godless world anime with it's 'end of life' policy.
Now tell me, barring technology or resources required to set up the establishment structure, how many are feasible?
Canada proves anything to do with promoting, and increasingly mandating, euthanasia - always a key to any good Malthusian dystopia - will work just great. The Anglosphere as a whole is a fine testament to the viability of totalitarian anarcho-tyranny of any stripe to the point that if you were to describe the absolute state of 21st century Australian, Canadian, New Zealander or British degeneracy, law enforcement and finances to someone from those countries in 1953 or probably even 1993 (at least in Canada) they'd think you were writing a dystopia so histrionic and unhinged as to be 100% unrealistic.
I dont remember what ancient philosopher said it, but a quote I always keep in mind is ,"The average person isnt fit to be anything but a slave, my objection is there isnt a man alive fit to be their master."
People misunderstand what democracy is good at. Democracy is good making people think that they have a say, which keeps them from revolting. That's why it's successful. As a decision making mechanism, it's mid.
I think that also explains why lgbt numbers are high in young ppl
Why do you think a lot of commie takeovers kill the elderly first, they thanks to experience know how shit will play out so try to nip that in the bud. It's why Japan is still relatively sane still and on a flipside It's how Somaliland is a stable country and Somalia isn't.
That’s why when I saw last Jedi alarm bells went off when they said “destroy the past” over and over
People opportunistically agree with people they feel like will reward them. If you work at a company that's woke because of Blackstone bucks, it pays to be woke.
That is what makes somebody an NPC. It happens especially to women and weak men to follow groupthink. They don't care what is actually true, just what is safe to say is true in front of others.
That's why having control over the news, entertainment, and media, is very powerful. You can shape those unconscious biases and direct people based on what they think everybody is doing and what is safe to believe.
I would say there is a good correlation between the your topic and the number of people who wanted nothing to do with “nerd stuff” in the past but now are all of a sudden into gaming and stuff now that it is trendy
I think most of them fit into this category. It could be as high as 95%.
Which I guess is better than if they were all true believers, but only if things eventually swing the other direction.
They don't just do it because it's popular but also because it offers them excuses and protection for their faults and hedonism. It's the new religion of the weak and craven.
There's a guy I knew back in college. Fat tub of shit. Constant panic attacks. No spine. Habitual college student who was using his multiple degree pursuit to keep his parents off his back about the concept of having a real job. As far left as you can get. Guy virtue signaled daily on every topic you can imagine. Also begged for money every other month for his personal problems. Kept a pet autistic girlfriend as live-in. Then when that wasn't worth enough woke points, he dumped her and got a transgender person as a girlfriend. Went so far as to get her last name legally changed to his but they didn't marry because he was milking disability benefits for his mental condition.
Guy actually somehow manages to turn himself around. Loses weight. Uses the massive woke social media following he gathered to launch a business. Suddenly, not virtue signaling so much. Suddenly, he's willing to have republican friends. Suddenly he's dumped his transgender girlfriend the minute a normal attractive white woman took an interest in him.
Now he looks decent, has positive cash flow, prospects, and a GF that isn't sloppy seconds on man meat in a female cosplay. Now he doesn't have to pantomime wokeness constantly. What a funny correlation, that.
He's still towing the liberal line. He just went from antifa level crazy to John Stewart post retirement level crazy.
Duh. Woke is a cult of the hyper-social. Which is why it affects women so heavily.
Teens are probably doing it to be cool but older people are just brainwashed. I have a co-worker that was telling me the other day how crazy it was that DeSantis was banning books and destroying education. I asked her what books were being banned, she had no idea it was gay porn shit. She also had no idea about the leftist push to ban actual real books that don't match the narrative. Just shows how misguided the average normie is.
Oh god, don't fucking tell me that people are still pushing that bullshit about the Ghost Stories dub. That it "did poorly in Japan and was given to another studio to do whatever they wanted to turn a profit" and not just a filler show made to take up a time slot that some idiot used as his personal fuck piece?
Keep in mind that the same person behind that dub, Ste7en (yes, he's that much of a fucking tool) Foster, also admitted to changing a character to non-binary.
Thanks. I was meaning to post that video in the thread but I couldn't remember where it was and I needed to ask the guy who showed me.
Yes, and it's a sin indistinguishable from the true believers. The mechanism to prevent trend chasers from following this kind of shit is to punish both the same way.
Yeah? That was my assumption for years. It's a trendy bullshitty thing. After the Bush administration essentially led the Republican party off a cliff and pissed off as many Americans as possible, the Democratic gained a huge surge in popularity, even if they were pulling some of the same shit that Republicans had been doing.
It's the result of feminist indoctrination of at least the last 30 years.
There’s a reason these people are called sheep. They just blindly follow what “everyone else” is doing and never stray far from the herd. It’s a survival instinct that they’d never risk ignoring.