I don't think the madness will necessarily be pushed back, so much as it will consume itself, and the purpose of gender roles and familial contracts will re-establish as a matter of course in a much less pleasant environment.
Back when they announced Kevin Smith was going to be doing a He-Man reboot for Netflix, I was mildly interested
I get he has geek cred, but I'm not really sure why he's held in the esteem that he is. I enjoyed his early stuff, but I think everything after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has been varying degrees of boring and/or insufferable.
Probably correct. Not that I condone capital punishment for minor offences, but I'm not sure that 10 deaths vs. 10,000 man-years of imprisonment or slavery is a more immoral position.
NK is a pretty strange animal, though. Enforcing strictness in one area wouldn't translate well unless there was a psychological establishment of compliance cultivated over generations. It's use is to view one potential extreme, not to emulate. Still, it's worth studying.
Say 10 "Hail capitalism and individualism," and you'll be forgiven for your sins.
Gotta admit, I chuckled.
I wish we could spend energy formulating a government that better accommodates a decent and free society. We form rigid systems that exist on firm ideological lines, but their rigidity is precisely why none of them are worth a shit. Flies in the face of the rule of law. Progressivism thinks that the law should be flexible to accommodate changing needs of the people, but this seems to be pretty much in direct opposition to what's actually called for. Half of people are below the average IQ. Aristocracy existed for a reason, but the aristocracy itself can't be trusted with with the demos' interests. The Republic is a great concept, but it's still inadequate. Bit of a stream of consciousness, but ultimately, a government needs to be able to accommodate a peoples will, but never at the cost of its health. Tough nut.
Not to say that it's not important spending energy fighting what's fucking us up right now, but the alternative wouldn't exactly be great after a bit of time to establish, either. The alternatives always seem diametric, which is easy from an emotional standpoint, but not necessarily correct.
We need a xenomorph government.
I mean, there was a time, anyway...
Part optimism, part human nature, I suppose. Pendulum theory would probably work better as a double or multi pendulum theory, since there are so many factors that bring chaos to the reaction that a simple pendulum can't adequately express how the reaction will play out. It will change course, but the how far and and at what velocity is difficult to say.
I also wouldn't look at it as a left/right thing. It's more of perceived problem/proposed solution thing, with a strong emotional component. The greater the perception of the problem, the more open people become to varied solutions, manifesting in some form of populism or another. Harnessing that brewing populism towards your ideology's proposed solutions is what is probably most important in determining how things play out, but it's still going to be chaotic.
Historically, I think you get it right in the general observation of patterns of extremism and reaction. Trying to look at minutiae of historical events won't tell you much about a completely different context.
As an aside, I also don't look at the Overton Window being fixed in size. Sometimes, what's called movement is really expansion or contraction.
I want to be excited, but Bethesda has been pretty trash since Oblivion. FO:NV was pretty good (not actually Beth), Skyrim was a joke without serious overhaul mods to give it RPG systems again. FO4 suffered the same issue, but at least they made a better FPS out of it than FO3.
One way of looking at it. Hopefully it leads to white families and white children as they look for protection again.