I put "conversations" in scare quotes because I'm obviously not referring to actual conversations. I don't know what word I should use to describe what I'm talking about, but I'm using this one since I've often seen it used in this context. What I actually mean is some dumb controversy that by rights no one should give a fuck about becomes a hot topic in the media/on social media, and then some retard journalist announces that there's a "conversation" happening around the topic or that the topic has "entered the national conversation". Sometimes it's obviously astroturfed (anything having to do with masculinity is a prime example of this) but it often legitimately goes viral thanks to the general population's room temperature IQ. Just to give an idea of what I'm talking about, here are some particularly vapid examples:
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The leggings "conversation" that popped up several times over the last decade in various forms.
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A few years back some social media addicted losers questioned if a gift some celebrity bought her granddaughter was age appropriate, and retards in the media decided to report on the "controversy" since "it's between her and the parents so we should leave it alone" was too sane of a stance.
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There was apparently a retarded crew vs ankle socks debate that I didn't know or care to know about until my local radio station's idiot host announced that Gen Z "resolved it" and that he was disappointed that his side "lost". For a dude in his 30's or 40s he takes this crap awfully seriously.
I know I should just file this under "stupid normie shit", but don't people have anything more interesting to focus on? Why does anyone give a fuck about any of this? I at least understand the obsession with political stuff since it actually affects people's lives (or it will if the commies get their way). But leggings? Socks? I was going to ask why our culture is so fucking vapid, but I know it's because we let women and their stupid drama poison it. The whole thing needs to be burned to the ground.
Yes, also that's the thing, they don't have anything to do so they huddle around each other and gaggle like a bunch of geese rather than do anything with themselves and they're entertained by it. The average normie work day especially if they don't have kids to concern themselves with revolves around waking up, going to their boring office job at 9:00am, then they'll clock out at 5:00pm and then they had back home to watch Netflix.
Maybe if they're feeling adventurous on a weekend they'll go to a nightclub with their friends and go on a binge drinking session. Some of the absolute slags out there will do it every fucking weekend which is why so many western women look like they've aged 20 years by the time they hit their 30's because they were embracing the office worker party lifestyle in their 20's. You go to the UK and you'll see it in major cities, they're usually women and university students getting drunk and stumbling out of night clubs barely wearing anything.
That's it, that's all they got, in the UK if they're a middle/upper class leftist they might go on holiday once a year and then brag about it on Instagram and take as many photographs as possible. They'll also go to Glastonbury when it's on which is very much a place for middle class leftists to gather in mass numbers away from the peasants so they can sniff their own farts.
TLDR: Normies are incredibly boring so they have to embrace astroturfed political causes in order to feel like their lives have some kind of meaning and they're not the insufferable worker drones that they are