I was volunteering in a high school and there was a crisis help line poster on the wall.
Except it was phrased as a way for kids to get help keeping things from their parents. Kids walk past, and subliminally read, that a dozen or so times a day and parents wonder what's wrong.
I was just watching a video the other day about how the most effective way to influence people is social imprinting. People want to do things that other people are doing. If you show that an activity is common, more people will start doing it - it doesn't matter if your message is positive or negative.
The way memory holing was used to rehabilitate Jimmy Carter's public image. Easily the worst president of the last seven decades and yet he's idolized.
The greatest flaw of the millennial generation is their appalling lack of perspective. If something happened before they were ten years old, no it didn't.
Nah, Carter was worse. He actually believed this shit and actually did stuff. Biden isn't president, he's a hollow shell for the people propping him up.
If Biden is just a puppet, then that is actually proof that he is worse. The President is supposed to believe their own rhetoric and do stuff to implement it. That is the entire reason they are voted into office in the first place.
greatest flaw of the millennial generation is their appalling lack of perspective
Flaws of the average person from any generation are a consequence of what came before them, simply because of their upbringing being different whether it be politics or technology or rearing from parents.
Greatest generation dropped the ball by resetting geopolitics
Silent Gen can't/couldn't let go of the past or former glories
Boomers are spoiled narcissists that benefitted from Western economies getting hallowed out yet acting like the youngins are the issue.
Gen X'ers became jaded and probably doomer-pilled to the point they couldn't help move the needle back
Millennials are intolerant extremists thanks to all the agitprop bombardment in media and Internet
Post-Millenials/Zoomers are degenerate narcissists seeped in anti-humor memes
Post-Zoomies can't (won't be able to) think past their iPads
From my perspective, and having been raised by basically anti Boomers, I disagree with some of this.
Nobody made the Boomers the way they are. They were raised right. Their parents took them to church, taught them useful skills, gave them a foundation to build on.
Instead they collectively bought in the lies of good times and muh equal, and chose to become lotus eaters.
My opinion I made above won't make sense to, or be agreed upon by, everyone because I'm someone who was born on the edge between generations. Our kind get screwed out of opportunities by both ends (like my parents did), so my outlook on the concept of "generational gaps" is negative.
It probably defeats the point of my argument but I don't like the defined ranges for each "generation". There's similarities among those in the ranges but it's not representative of every single person in that hard line range. It's only really become a part anthropology because the Industrial Revolution caused rapid changes in technology that affected culture to the point that people 20 years later aren't psychologically the same as those before them. Prior, things evolved so slowly you could have three or four generations of people be pretty much the same.
Instead they collectively bought in the lies of good times and muh equal, and chose to become lotus eaters
Seeing young girls go bat shit insane and clueless normies either be puzzled by it or not notice it at all. They say the state of a nation can be approximated by the state of the women of said nation... Well, America (and the West/ Anglosphere in general) are all kinds of fucked then.
Likewise I remember when, as a kid, we had to dress nicely for church. Now everyone goes in to "worship" in sweats, yoga pants and other crap. Outside of the stricter, more traditional churches.
Remember when the left claimed homos were all well dressed and clean? The whole queer eye bull shit? Boy, that turned out to be a blatant lie pretty quickly.
Too bad white women followed suit and are now dirty as can be.
Only one or two out in the wild? The majority of females age 11-30 seem to be wearing yogapants where I am, looking as if they're naked but bodypainted from the waist down. It's absolutely fucked.
Last year I saw a group of girls in their mid-teens out walking in the middle of the day, one of them in a top which clearly exhibited she was braless, with pierced nipples. Yoga pants are on the 'subtle' end of the rot but it's all part of the same matrix. Women are dressing, and dressing their children, in ways that have completely magicked out of existence the concepts of female shame and male heterosexual drive.
Several years ago I saw a pair of girls in a store with matching yoga pants. I thought that the writing across the ass was from the local high school. Nah, the pants were from the local middle school.
Likewise women are allowed to get away with more and more to an insane degree; such as the girl that stabbed her boyfriend to death because she smoked weed, but will serve 0 jail time.
Casey Anthony very obviously killing her child so she could get back to partying is an older one.
Churches started going to fucking shit as soon as their leaders were too cowardly to address gluttony and accepted obesity in their churchgoers. You turn a blind eye to one sin, you let the rest follow.
Too many specific examples to name but the general thing that always seems subtle but which highlights the rot is how every year people supposedly combating this rot start to promote the very rot as if it were a good thing simply because it's less rotten than where the rot has progressed to now.
To give a specific example of this: leftists might suggest the SCOTUS needs to change because they're too "conservative". Leftists might suggest 5 liberals to replace the "conservatives" and their suggestions might be 5 White men. "Conservatives" would then suggest they're actually more "progressive" than liberals because they have "conservative" women and black men on the Supreme Court. In reality, a real conservative should not want any black men or women on the Supreme Court.
You see subtle instances of this all the time. The pendulum swings liberal and then conservatives adopt these liberal values. Then as the liberals continue along, the conservatives start promoting the same liberal values but the ones that liberal promoted 10, 20 or 30 years prior. Then when a real conservative pops up and actually promotes true conservatism these "conservatives" attack the real conservatives the same way in which liberals would have attacked the "conservatives". In effect, many modern "conservatives" are just liberals that are 10, 20 or 30 years behind and you see this subtle rot progress each and every year with some new example.
One thing that stood out to me back in the 1990s was Lethal Weapon 3. They had Rene Russo's character depicted as being just as physically capable as the men. The scene was played off with a bit of comedy but still straight-laced enough that the audience was supposed to believe she was capable of manhandling men.
This was one of those mainstream, big-budget action films for men that was trying to convince that same audience that women were just as strong and physically capable as men.
Some might think it's a silly example, as your example is far more direct and a lot more hazardous to the health of a nation, but it was the subtlety of the inclusion that led to it being the slippery slope that eventually eroded away male entertainment spaces.
It was the synergistic landslide that worked hand-in-hand with municipal policies in Anglosphere nations that opened the doorway for "gender equity" initiatives, and eventually parliamentary, judicial, and legislative drift toward Conservatives constantly ceding ground on policies while simultaneously saying "...at least it isn't as Left/Liberal as the initial policy".
It all started with brainwashing people with the little things, so that they could eventually brainwash people to accept the big things; a wedge to distort the collective's perception of reality so that they could convince collective to accept anything, including calling concessions a "victory".
Speaking of movies and a recent one with some subtle rot. I tried watching that newish James Bond that came out and literally stopped it and shut it off when Bond was acting like a simp for a single mother. I mean, to me that's not subtle but to a lot of clueless people, that's subtle. Subliminal messaging teaching a new generation of men that simping for single mothers is a good "manly" thing cause Bond does it. What a joke. I'm sure to anyone aware of things watching Legal Weapon 3, they'd have immediately picked up on the rot but it was definitely subtle to the NPCs.
Yes, for people who know, it's not subtle at all. But what's so dangerous is the amount of young people who do believe things like the new Bond is subtle, but that's because of how much propaganda and predictive programming they're being fed at every single vector of their existence.
I haven't watched that latest Bond (probably never will, even though I'm a pretty big fan and occasionally rewatch the classics when I'm in the mood) but I know exactly what you're talking about: Using male icons to push ideological rot.
It's the same as when they try to get someone they consider alpha to say, "bodycount doesn't matter", or "race doesn't matter", or "the past doesn't matter" (the last of which is ironic, given how much they use the past as a bludgeon for foisting oppression Olympics upon the malleable masses).
But yes, you're absolutely right that the next generation (or the current youth generation) will continue to grow up with subliminal messaging everywhere and it will be quite pervasive, much more-so than generations past, but still not as bad as the more conspicuous forms of propaganda like Ghostbusters 2016 or Forspoken, or whatever other mainstream Leftist slop they try to feed people. It goes back to your point about Conservatives conceding to the lesser of Liberal ideas and calling it a win; we see it frequently now within the cultural realm of people accepting the messaging because "at least it's not as bad as X" (I've seen quite a few people use this excuse for the new Dune films on message boards and video comments; haven't watched them myself but I'm pretty sure it's not unlike your Bond example).
It’s because the far left is pushing so far left that they are dragging the political scale behind them. 20 years ago my views would be pretty moderate but because the scales changed I am now a “far right extremist”
Leftist ideology is underpinned by egalitarianism. That is the fundamental core belief of leftism that pervades all other leftist ideology.
Actual conservatism's main fundamental core belief is elitism. The very opposite of egalitarianism.
If you are not elitist then you are in fact liberal and it's just a question of which era of liberalism you are. Perhaps you're a 1960s liberal or a 1990s liberal but you're a liberal nonrtheless.
Leftist ideology is underpinned by collectivism and authoritarianism, not egalitarianism. You spout their own horseshit propaganda they teach to children as if it's fact, with ZERO understanding of what makes political ideologies.
I would argue you have a very narrow view of political ideologies. Outside of basically a very small select MAGA group of peoples, the idea that left-wing is authoritarianism and right-wing is libertarianism is not the norm. I'll also have you note the root word liber from liberal in libertarianism. Authoritarianism is in fact conservatism. Aristotle who wrote Politics was not a liberal by a long-shot and he advocated for staunch authoritarianism seeing the State as the ultimate good.
I completely understand your belief and I'm not insulting you. I just think you need to expand your horizons a little...
Let me quote one of the founding fathers for you:
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” ― Benjamin Franklin
You see, Mr. Franklin understood something you do not. When authority is wielded by good people you have a good result. When authority is welded by bad people you have a bad result. Authority is not bad in itself but rather it is the people who are either good or evil not the authority they wield. Mr. Franklin was saying that liberty is something only good people deserve because only good people would use their freedom in a good way. If you give too much freedom to evil people then evil flourishes thus in order to curtail evil you need authority over evil.
The problem with leftism is not that they want authority. The problem with leftism is that they are evil. The reason leftists are evil is because they are egalitarians in a reality that can never be this ideal. When good people want authority to combat evil that is a good thing.
Literally horseshoe theory "right wing is just left wing but different color" stupidity, straight out of public school propaganda farms. Absolutely wrong.
You can objectively classify political ideology by one scale - control. The extreme right is anarchist. Extreme left is authoritarian. No right wing movement has ever been authoritarian and no authoritarian movement has ever been right wing.
Recent Spiderman game did this. Players complained about the Mary Jane sections (because they want to play as Spiderman in a Spiderman game, duh); and so the sequel had Mary Jane sections again where she was even more overpowered.
This sort of thing keeps getting more brazen to the point that even normalfags are calling it out. Even on Reddit I see posts making fun of Mary Jane being a stupidly overpowered character.
Also recently we have the Fallout show where the creators have made it very clear that they're out to push propaganda and NOT please the fans.
On the surface, it seems like they're just telling people that kindness is something everyone can do, even if you're retarded.
However, this is a ratchet mechanism progressives will use when they think they have things going their way, because it shuts down arguments. When they think something needs to change, they revel in "having uncomfortable conversations" but when you start to hear them talk about "kindness" it's because they're in charge.
On top of that, "kindness" is pointless it you're useless. How are you going to be kind to a homeless guy if you can't feed yourself? Tell him to "Have a nice day?" His day is going to be shit, and he already knows it, don't be a patronizing dick.
In a world where you can be anything, get a fucking job.
When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles
At work today I mentioned in passing that it was the Ides of March when Caesar was assassinated. One of the Zoomers I work with, aged maybe 20, had no idea who Julius Caesar was. This is no diversity hire: he's a white kid.
The rot, fundamentally, is made possible by ignorance, and we've created entire generations of people who just. don't. know anything.
During this year's Super Bowl halftime show, Alicia Keys was off key for one big note and they went back and fixed it in the recordings on Youtube later.
Institutional? I honestly don't follow them too much anymore. Onion removed shit? I stopped visiting years ago. Before they caught TDS they had long since stopped being funny.
Now, individuals is where I see it most poignantly. Grown men at work who would never be confused for anything other than a man putting "he/him" in his email signature. People recording TikToks at a funeral. Long time friend I haven't seen in forever asking if I turned into a "conspiracy nut" because I don't have an Alexa device. "Yeah, but I just want to play the FF7 remake games anyway," says another. Brother shrugging at the decay in school with respect to his son with a "I don't like it but I can't stop it" resignation. Father in law obsessed with YouTube videos about Ukraine killing Russians so they're obviously winning. Client talking about how good people shouldn't care about their privacy being violated.
The death of spirit, death of truth, death of respecting other humans' individuality...
The black pill is depressing enough as it is, but pushing through those dark realizations is just a matter of exposure and understanding the rational. Seeing people near me slotting in to their spots on the WEF bingo card has been hitting me unexpectedly hard.
Not so subtle but the demoralisation in normies. It's not actually too hard to get people to notice, but try it out. See how talking about problems makes people become depressed and want to change topics. The learned helplessness is worrying.
Yea, I think a majority of the "vote blue no matter who" crowd goes along with "i don't like talking about politics, they are all corrupt" because tv tells them "republicans only help millionaires, democrats help poor people". They literally think cnn/cbs/abc means they are getting a diversity of opinions. And they don't have time to research anything or desire to learn anything because funko-pops/kardashians/marvel movies etc.
It was a nice day so I walked to the grocery store with a backpack.
At the exit, there wasn't a designated spot for cart returns and no cart boys.
All the carts are organized at the front entrance and there's a narrow corridor with a guard rail in between the two which I presume is some sort of cart chute.
I returned my shopping cart to the chute so it wasn't blocking the exit.
I immediately turn around and there's some jogger on crutches staring at me and blocking my exit. I ask him if he would like my cart and he mutters something unintelligible.
I then work out that he wants to walk down the cart chute and my cart is blocking his path.
I move the cart and leave it so it's haphazardly in the vestibule.
He starts limping along the cart chute and doesn't say thank you.
I watch him traverse the length of the chute and immediately exit out the entrance of the store.
He had me move the cart when he literally could've traveled two feet to his right and walk along the outside of the store to his destination.
While not specifically due to "rot" (as per the OP's intentions), the most obvious example of Western civilizational collapse/corruption is the anti-White agenda becoming more open and brazen (since White people built and maintain Western civilization). There are numerous ways this is expressing itself, and accelerating, but the worst offense, that's getting progressively louder, is the non-white criminals who commit crimes against White people, even up to murder, are now openly acquitted of their crimes, because they're non-white, and they hurt White people. This isn't a one off thing, either. Examples of this are happening more and more. We're only in the middle stages of the Kalergi plan genocide of White people. This is going to keep getting worse.
I feel like the real world is actually healing, and it's unironically thanks to VR chat. most of the degenerates are deciding to live in The Matrix rather than the real world, and honestly the real world is better for it.
the only thing in the real world I've noticed has gotten way worse is drugs and homelessness. everyone who can't afford a VR headset are instead frying their brains on cartel cocktails.
All the trump content from pre2016, and every primary source material of what he effectively did during his presidency from 2016 to 2020. You can’t find it. It’s all been replaced by leftist propaganda.
I was volunteering in a high school and there was a crisis help line poster on the wall.
Except it was phrased as a way for kids to get help keeping things from their parents. Kids walk past, and subliminally read, that a dozen or so times a day and parents wonder what's wrong.
I was just watching a video the other day about how the most effective way to influence people is social imprinting. People want to do things that other people are doing. If you show that an activity is common, more people will start doing it - it doesn't matter if your message is positive or negative.
And that's why the entertainment industry has been putting gays in everything for decades.
The way memory holing was used to rehabilitate Jimmy Carter's public image. Easily the worst president of the last seven decades and yet he's idolized.
The greatest flaw of the millennial generation is their appalling lack of perspective. If something happened before they were ten years old, no it didn't.
Hey that's not fair! I mean, Obama, Bush, Bush the sequel... We've had a pretty bad run.
None of those assholes gave away the Panama Canal.
Not any more as of 2020.
Or 1988, or 1992, or 2000, or 2008...
Nah, Carter was worse. He actually believed this shit and actually did stuff. Biden isn't president, he's a hollow shell for the people propping him up.
If Biden is just a puppet, then that is actually proof that he is worse. The President is supposed to believe their own rhetoric and do stuff to implement it. That is the entire reason they are voted into office in the first place.
Flaws of the average person from any generation are a consequence of what came before them, simply because of their upbringing being different whether it be politics or technology or rearing from parents.
From my perspective, and having been raised by basically anti Boomers, I disagree with some of this.
Nobody made the Boomers the way they are. They were raised right. Their parents took them to church, taught them useful skills, gave them a foundation to build on.
Instead they collectively bought in the lies of good times and muh equal, and chose to become lotus eaters.
My opinion I made above won't make sense to, or be agreed upon by, everyone because I'm someone who was born on the edge between generations. Our kind get screwed out of opportunities by both ends (like my parents did), so my outlook on the concept of "generational gaps" is negative.
It probably defeats the point of my argument but I don't like the defined ranges for each "generation". There's similarities among those in the ranges but it's not representative of every single person in that hard line range. It's only really become a part anthropology because the Industrial Revolution caused rapid changes in technology that affected culture to the point that people 20 years later aren't psychologically the same as those before them. Prior, things evolved so slowly you could have three or four generations of people be pretty much the same.
Good times make weak men
I was under ten when the Berlin wall fell. It had no meaning to me until I had relatives come to visit.
If something happened yesterday, it didn't happen if their objective needs it to have not happened.
Unless it can be used as a cudgel against my enemies to get what I want, then it happened and it might have happened even more than it did in reality.
Seeing young girls go bat shit insane and clueless normies either be puzzled by it or not notice it at all. They say the state of a nation can be approximated by the state of the women of said nation... Well, America (and the West/ Anglosphere in general) are all kinds of fucked then.
Likewise I remember when, as a kid, we had to dress nicely for church. Now everyone goes in to "worship" in sweats, yoga pants and other crap. Outside of the stricter, more traditional churches.
I'm willing to bet the slob churches are also those that follow cock-in-assiness is next to godliness.
Remember when the left claimed homos were all well dressed and clean? The whole queer eye bull shit? Boy, that turned out to be a blatant lie pretty quickly.
Too bad white women followed suit and are now dirty as can be.
Only one or two out in the wild? The majority of females age 11-30 seem to be wearing yogapants where I am, looking as if they're naked but bodypainted from the waist down. It's absolutely fucked.
Last year I saw a group of girls in their mid-teens out walking in the middle of the day, one of them in a top which clearly exhibited she was braless, with pierced nipples. Yoga pants are on the 'subtle' end of the rot but it's all part of the same matrix. Women are dressing, and dressing their children, in ways that have completely magicked out of existence the concepts of female shame and male heterosexual drive.
Yeah, any church that recognizes gays isn’t a church you want to go to.
Several years ago I saw a pair of girls in a store with matching yoga pants. I thought that the writing across the ass was from the local high school. Nah, the pants were from the local middle school.
Likewise women are allowed to get away with more and more to an insane degree; such as the girl that stabbed her boyfriend to death because she smoked weed, but will serve 0 jail time.
Casey Anthony very obviously killing her child so she could get back to partying is an older one.
Churches started going to fucking shit as soon as their leaders were too cowardly to address gluttony and accepted obesity in their churchgoers. You turn a blind eye to one sin, you let the rest follow.
That came long after "divorce is great". Once pleasures were placed over sacrifice, the 'X' was placed on sense.
Too many specific examples to name but the general thing that always seems subtle but which highlights the rot is how every year people supposedly combating this rot start to promote the very rot as if it were a good thing simply because it's less rotten than where the rot has progressed to now.
To give a specific example of this: leftists might suggest the SCOTUS needs to change because they're too "conservative". Leftists might suggest 5 liberals to replace the "conservatives" and their suggestions might be 5 White men. "Conservatives" would then suggest they're actually more "progressive" than liberals because they have "conservative" women and black men on the Supreme Court. In reality, a real conservative should not want any black men or women on the Supreme Court.
You see subtle instances of this all the time. The pendulum swings liberal and then conservatives adopt these liberal values. Then as the liberals continue along, the conservatives start promoting the same liberal values but the ones that liberal promoted 10, 20 or 30 years prior. Then when a real conservative pops up and actually promotes true conservatism these "conservatives" attack the real conservatives the same way in which liberals would have attacked the "conservatives". In effect, many modern "conservatives" are just liberals that are 10, 20 or 30 years behind and you see this subtle rot progress each and every year with some new example.
This is a really good example.
One thing that stood out to me back in the 1990s was Lethal Weapon 3. They had Rene Russo's character depicted as being just as physically capable as the men. The scene was played off with a bit of comedy but still straight-laced enough that the audience was supposed to believe she was capable of manhandling men.
This was one of those mainstream, big-budget action films for men that was trying to convince that same audience that women were just as strong and physically capable as men.
Some might think it's a silly example, as your example is far more direct and a lot more hazardous to the health of a nation, but it was the subtlety of the inclusion that led to it being the slippery slope that eventually eroded away male entertainment spaces.
It was the synergistic landslide that worked hand-in-hand with municipal policies in Anglosphere nations that opened the doorway for "gender equity" initiatives, and eventually parliamentary, judicial, and legislative drift toward Conservatives constantly ceding ground on policies while simultaneously saying "...at least it isn't as Left/Liberal as the initial policy".
It all started with brainwashing people with the little things, so that they could eventually brainwash people to accept the big things; a wedge to distort the collective's perception of reality so that they could convince collective to accept anything, including calling concessions a "victory".
Speaking of movies and a recent one with some subtle rot. I tried watching that newish James Bond that came out and literally stopped it and shut it off when Bond was acting like a simp for a single mother. I mean, to me that's not subtle but to a lot of clueless people, that's subtle. Subliminal messaging teaching a new generation of men that simping for single mothers is a good "manly" thing cause Bond does it. What a joke. I'm sure to anyone aware of things watching Legal Weapon 3, they'd have immediately picked up on the rot but it was definitely subtle to the NPCs.
Yes, for people who know, it's not subtle at all. But what's so dangerous is the amount of young people who do believe things like the new Bond is subtle, but that's because of how much propaganda and predictive programming they're being fed at every single vector of their existence.
I haven't watched that latest Bond (probably never will, even though I'm a pretty big fan and occasionally rewatch the classics when I'm in the mood) but I know exactly what you're talking about: Using male icons to push ideological rot.
It's the same as when they try to get someone they consider alpha to say, "bodycount doesn't matter", or "race doesn't matter", or "the past doesn't matter" (the last of which is ironic, given how much they use the past as a bludgeon for foisting oppression Olympics upon the malleable masses).
But yes, you're absolutely right that the next generation (or the current youth generation) will continue to grow up with subliminal messaging everywhere and it will be quite pervasive, much more-so than generations past, but still not as bad as the more conspicuous forms of propaganda like Ghostbusters 2016 or Forspoken, or whatever other mainstream Leftist slop they try to feed people. It goes back to your point about Conservatives conceding to the lesser of Liberal ideas and calling it a win; we see it frequently now within the cultural realm of people accepting the messaging because "at least it's not as bad as X" (I've seen quite a few people use this excuse for the new Dune films on message boards and video comments; haven't watched them myself but I'm pretty sure it's not unlike your Bond example).
Really sad times ahead.
It’s because the far left is pushing so far left that they are dragging the political scale behind them. 20 years ago my views would be pretty moderate but because the scales changed I am now a “far right extremist”
And disregarding Clarence Thomas, one of the few good SC justices
Worthless retard take
Thanks for just proving my point? Is that what you intended to do?
You claim you aren't a leftist in your post and yet echo their ideology exactly. You are not a "real conservative". You are a faggot wehraboo.
Leftist ideology is underpinned by egalitarianism. That is the fundamental core belief of leftism that pervades all other leftist ideology.
Actual conservatism's main fundamental core belief is elitism. The very opposite of egalitarianism.
If you are not elitist then you are in fact liberal and it's just a question of which era of liberalism you are. Perhaps you're a 1960s liberal or a 1990s liberal but you're a liberal nonrtheless.
Leftist ideology is underpinned by collectivism and authoritarianism, not egalitarianism. You spout their own horseshit propaganda they teach to children as if it's fact, with ZERO understanding of what makes political ideologies.
I would argue you have a very narrow view of political ideologies. Outside of basically a very small select MAGA group of peoples, the idea that left-wing is authoritarianism and right-wing is libertarianism is not the norm. I'll also have you note the root word liber from liberal in libertarianism. Authoritarianism is in fact conservatism. Aristotle who wrote Politics was not a liberal by a long-shot and he advocated for staunch authoritarianism seeing the State as the ultimate good.
I completely understand your belief and I'm not insulting you. I just think you need to expand your horizons a little...
Let me quote one of the founding fathers for you:
You see, Mr. Franklin understood something you do not. When authority is wielded by good people you have a good result. When authority is welded by bad people you have a bad result. Authority is not bad in itself but rather it is the people who are either good or evil not the authority they wield. Mr. Franklin was saying that liberty is something only good people deserve because only good people would use their freedom in a good way. If you give too much freedom to evil people then evil flourishes thus in order to curtail evil you need authority over evil.
The problem with leftism is not that they want authority. The problem with leftism is that they are evil. The reason leftists are evil is because they are egalitarians in a reality that can never be this ideal. When good people want authority to combat evil that is a good thing.
Literally horseshoe theory "right wing is just left wing but different color" stupidity, straight out of public school propaganda farms. Absolutely wrong.
You can objectively classify political ideology by one scale - control. The extreme right is anarchist. Extreme left is authoritarian. No right wing movement has ever been authoritarian and no authoritarian movement has ever been right wing.
People that think tropes = bad, having nothing to say when the race/ gender of the parties involved in the trope swap or otherwise change.
White Men being pigeonholed into joke characters (NOT comedic relief characters) or villains
Refusal to allow non-white or women characters to overcome any legitimate hardship
Offensive comedy only allowed to be offensive in one direction
Increasingly passive-aggressive language being used by companies and organizations
Industries turning from apathetic to outright antagonistic and hostile towards their customer base.
Videogames don't cause violence but do cause these other activities
Tropes and stereotypes exist for a reason. Much like face eating leopards, that will eat your face, there's a reason you don't french big cats.
There are no bad leopards, only bad owners!!!!!
Leopards are a nanny cat.
I would much sooner trust a leopard than a pitbull lmao.
Recent Spiderman game did this. Players complained about the Mary Jane sections (because they want to play as Spiderman in a Spiderman game, duh); and so the sequel had Mary Jane sections again where she was even more overpowered.
This sort of thing keeps getting more brazen to the point that even normalfags are calling it out. Even on Reddit I see posts making fun of Mary Jane being a stupidly overpowered character.
Also recently we have the Fallout show where the creators have made it very clear that they're out to push propaganda and NOT please the fans.
Claimed that it was impossible. Just didn't say why it would be impossible: ESG and Amazon.
"In a world where you can be anything, be kind"
On the surface, it seems like they're just telling people that kindness is something everyone can do, even if you're retarded.
However, this is a ratchet mechanism progressives will use when they think they have things going their way, because it shuts down arguments. When they think something needs to change, they revel in "having uncomfortable conversations" but when you start to hear them talk about "kindness" it's because they're in charge.
On top of that, "kindness" is pointless it you're useless. How are you going to be kind to a homeless guy if you can't feed yourself? Tell him to "Have a nice day?" His day is going to be shit, and he already knows it, don't be a patronizing dick.
In a world where you can be anything, get a fucking job.
When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles
At work today I mentioned in passing that it was the Ides of March when Caesar was assassinated. One of the Zoomers I work with, aged maybe 20, had no idea who Julius Caesar was. This is no diversity hire: he's a white kid.
The rot, fundamentally, is made possible by ignorance, and we've created entire generations of people who just. don't. know anything.
During this year's Super Bowl halftime show, Alicia Keys was off key for one big note and they went back and fixed it in the recordings on Youtube later.
I loved their video about Call of Duty taking an actual 2 years to beat.
Institutional? I honestly don't follow them too much anymore. Onion removed shit? I stopped visiting years ago. Before they caught TDS they had long since stopped being funny.
Now, individuals is where I see it most poignantly. Grown men at work who would never be confused for anything other than a man putting "he/him" in his email signature. People recording TikToks at a funeral. Long time friend I haven't seen in forever asking if I turned into a "conspiracy nut" because I don't have an Alexa device. "Yeah, but I just want to play the FF7 remake games anyway," says another. Brother shrugging at the decay in school with respect to his son with a "I don't like it but I can't stop it" resignation. Father in law obsessed with YouTube videos about Ukraine killing Russians so they're obviously winning. Client talking about how good people shouldn't care about their privacy being violated.
The death of spirit, death of truth, death of respecting other humans' individuality...
The black pill is depressing enough as it is, but pushing through those dark realizations is just a matter of exposure and understanding the rational. Seeing people near me slotting in to their spots on the WEF bingo card has been hitting me unexpectedly hard.
The villain in Home Alone is named Marv Merchants. This has been retconned on multiple websites to "Marv Murchins."
Here's the actor who played Marv, Daniel Stern, using the correct spelling:
https://m.facebook.com/RealDanielStern/videos/1520326934933434/?comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22O%22%7D
Is this a Jewish thing?
Whatever it is, it's genuinely freaking weird that they're suddenly trying to censor the name of a cartoonish movie villain from 34 years ago.
Not so subtle but the demoralisation in normies. It's not actually too hard to get people to notice, but try it out. See how talking about problems makes people become depressed and want to change topics. The learned helplessness is worrying.
Yea, I think a majority of the "vote blue no matter who" crowd goes along with "i don't like talking about politics, they are all corrupt" because tv tells them "republicans only help millionaires, democrats help poor people". They literally think cnn/cbs/abc means they are getting a diversity of opinions. And they don't have time to research anything or desire to learn anything because funko-pops/kardashians/marvel movies etc.
It was a nice day so I walked to the grocery store with a backpack.
At the exit, there wasn't a designated spot for cart returns and no cart boys.
All the carts are organized at the front entrance and there's a narrow corridor with a guard rail in between the two which I presume is some sort of cart chute.
I returned my shopping cart to the chute so it wasn't blocking the exit.
I immediately turn around and there's some jogger on crutches staring at me and blocking my exit. I ask him if he would like my cart and he mutters something unintelligible.
I then work out that he wants to walk down the cart chute and my cart is blocking his path.
I move the cart and leave it so it's haphazardly in the vestibule.
He starts limping along the cart chute and doesn't say thank you.
I watch him traverse the length of the chute and immediately exit out the entrance of the store.
He had me move the cart when he literally could've traveled two feet to his right and walk along the outside of the store to his destination.
While not specifically due to "rot" (as per the OP's intentions), the most obvious example of Western civilizational collapse/corruption is the anti-White agenda becoming more open and brazen (since White people built and maintain Western civilization). There are numerous ways this is expressing itself, and accelerating, but the worst offense, that's getting progressively louder, is the non-white criminals who commit crimes against White people, even up to murder, are now openly acquitted of their crimes, because they're non-white, and they hurt White people. This isn't a one off thing, either. Examples of this are happening more and more. We're only in the middle stages of the Kalergi plan genocide of White people. This is going to keep getting worse.
I feel like the real world is actually healing, and it's unironically thanks to VR chat. most of the degenerates are deciding to live in The Matrix rather than the real world, and honestly the real world is better for it.
the only thing in the real world I've noticed has gotten way worse is drugs and homelessness. everyone who can't afford a VR headset are instead frying their brains on cartel cocktails.
All the trump content from pre2016, and every primary source material of what he effectively did during his presidency from 2016 to 2020. You can’t find it. It’s all been replaced by leftist propaganda.