Stages of a moral panic:
- An event, condition, person, group etc. is perceived as a threat to safety, values and interests.
Incels, unwanted attention from unattractive men, misogyny, social media, the "manosphere", smartphones in schools.
- The nature of the threat is amplified by the media (you are here).
Adolescence, news articles, voxpops.
- Social anxiety and concern spreads amongst the public who demand something be done about it (you are transitioning to here)
Campaign groups, activism, lobbying.
- Leaders respond to the social anxiety and concern by suggesting and implementing disproportinate solutions via new policies and laws.
New Online Safety Act, anti-misogyny law, censorship, removal of threat from society.
- The condition disappears, submerges or deteriorates and becomes more visible.
This is one of those occasions where I agree with the premise of "rejected unattractive men and boys are a threat to society," but not for the reasons they think.
We used to have pressure valves for men who think they have nothing to live for, but the Longhouse State has erased all those places where men got to be men and enjoy themselves a bit. Now the pressure has nowhere to go, boys are blamed for society's ills even before they can pick their own bedtime, they are told they have no future because the world is ending, and then they are told to give up their own personal happiness for some ungrateful fatty who will ditch him without so much as a "see ya sucker."
I want to see this powder keg finally blow much in the same way I want to witness a world-ending cataclysmic event; the awe of the destruction will be equaled only to my apprehension about surviving it. News media deliberately misdirecting blame to everyone but the people causing it will only make the boom all the more mesmerizing.
The most damage such men can do is to do nothing and that's what still scares them. They want men mentally abused, self loathing, but still productive and paying taxes into the system that hates them. Working overtime for free on salary to keep the lights on while the women drink free coffee, have meetings that solve nothing, and get promoted for it to tick off DEI checkboxes.
When such men stop playing at the rigged casino, it all falls apart
You don't even have to make it about men. They tried to take all choice away from people's own personal lives, and as a result nobody feels invested in the system.
I think they're hoping to send them to a meat grinder of war so they can wipe their hands of any wrong doing. Failing that, having them as work mules so they can engage in wealth transfer from them to the rest of society. For the Government, preferably behind bars and without a wage.
They're definitely planning WWIII... when you view current events through that lense, things make a lot more sense.