In France, you cannot talk or say anything bad or dissident against Muslims and Islam or you'll get mugged, attacked, harassed or beheaded in the name of prophet Mohammad. In the UK, you cannot say that Muslims are the main problem behind the myriad of sexual assaults and crimes in the country or you'll be branded as a racist bigot and the police will put you to the slammer. In the USA, say anything that shows pride of being white and an American makes you a fascist. In Germany, anything that's right-wing in opinion is illegal and can get you to jail. In Sweden, talk about how the Muslims have destroyed your country inside and outside and your fate is worse than those who raped or murdered.
Have you Westerners lost your will to fight to preserve yourselves? Are really this desentized to the point that you're more worried about what the media will have to say against you if you stand up for yourself and your right to exist? Maybe it's cowardice.
It'd definitely demoralization. I think u/Norenia (and many others') immediate "UHHH! GLOOOWWWWIIIEEE" reaction doesn't help.
Globalization was a mistake.
They hide their cowardice by screaming glowie when being told the truth. It's called coping.
I'm not saying he's wrong. But I seriously don't appreciate being talked down to by someone who clearly hasn't done anything himself either.
Demoralization has something to do with it, but it's definitely not all of it. The way I see it breaking down is like this:
Success: Currently, the United States is basically the best place on the world to live. For all it's problems, pretty much anyone can be self-sustaining at a level that provides more than most people in history. Getting to say, 17-18$/hr is not the most challenging thing ever, even 20$/hr is like a few years and basically one promotion away from the bottom tier or two if you apply yourself even with just a high school education. It's a very safe country. Medical is problematic but also so much better than even 50 years ago it's not even close. If you can have all of those things, then some people just don't give a shit about politics and enjoy their life.
Apathy: From success or demoralization. Either you don't care because as far as you're concerned nothing political really affects you and there's nothing you can really do about it -or- things are so shitty and bad and you're just one person and there's nothing you can do about it. Either way, you don't care.
Self-Determination: In large part decreased, and decreased a lot. A huge majority of people view life as "School > University > Career." That's the path. That's the only one for success, doesn't demand you think about what you truly want that much - just follow that path and you'll be fine. It's the rails they plan their lives by. As a result of this being so common, many people never question it. If you don't ask yourself "Is it really better that I work in an office job until 10PM staring at a screen 5 days a week for a few years looking for a promotion? What else could I do?" It's made things much more NPC like in many regards, and makes people less content as a result. Even when people stop think "What else could I do?" they just mostly think of doing some other job, weigh pros and cons, etc. They don't think things like "How would I prefer to spend my 24hrs?" so they can't even come to solutions that would improve their lives greatly. Like a horse with blinders.
I mean sure, id be happy as a pig in shit to play vidya all day, but that doesnt pay the bills nor does it put my own kids through school. Im half way through a mortgage and your talking as if I could just drop everything and do what i want to make myself happy, I disagree, the sacrifice I make with my time to make my wife and childrens lives better is far more important, thats how I get my fulfilment.
Why do you presume I meant people would chose to spend their 24 hours playing video games? That doesn't add up to me past a certain age.
My meaning was more between choosing a path of "Well, I guess I went to school, and now I'm working this office job where I spend 40 hours staring at a screen under fluorescent lights doing work I don't like, plus an hour and change in transit every day, but I guess that's how it is." vs. all the other options out there. Because there are other options out there. I've got a friend for example who doesn't have the kids but has the mortgage and works part time at a garage + also gets paid for picking up/delivering cars that are being sold long distance - he likes the driving, plus it pays pretty well to drive half way across the country, then back again. It's sure as hell not an office job, yet he's happier than at any office job he's worked.
Not saying office jobs are death, but like Peterson says, mostly people have jobs not careers. You can still provide for your family and find meaning in your work that way, but you can also find work that's more agreeable with you. There's a sense of "If I don't follow the path, rise up the ladder, then it's all awful, nothing else works." And that's blatantly untrue - we're just like horses with blinders in a sense, looking at that one solution, the whole highschool > uni > office thing. There are other options.
Agreed. Eventually there must be forceful pushback in order to defend oneself against attack, but every time anything even approaching that starts to emerge you get the chorus of "glow in the dark". How many strikes must one endure before retaliation is morally permitted?