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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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.