Reminder that "irony" is, historically traced, pretty much the case of "being out of favor of the gods."
There is almost no irony in the Sumerian myths, or the Vedas, and only starting to emerge in the Homeric epics, or in the Germanic Beowulf etc
The Greeks certainly did, they had a grasp of it in Homeric times, and as they reassembled themselves, the Classical Greeks perfected it: to the point where the Romans created the first ironic novel, the Satyricon
In the "Dark Ages," irony was then dead for centuries
Even the irony of Beowulf was Greek in nature, an ironic falling out with the gods, until a fully unironic hero emerged to kill the demons of chaos. The banishment of dragons and monsters.
This persisted for centuries until the writing of Don Quijote, a man literally "tilting at windmills," widely considered the first modern novel: the ironic story of a ridiculous fool
As in, a man at war with illusions; the gods are long dead, it's ironic he tilts at them
Shakespeare perfected dramatic irony just after, that's why he's the GOAT. He was able to somehow reproduce the Greco-Roman era of great men fighting against gods/destiny, in a much later era
The last mythopoeic author until maybe Tolkien
"Irony" has thus become a smaller and smaller concept over time, like Bakhtin said, first a struggle of mortals against the gods, then as we abandoned gods, against... well, increasingly smaller and smaller stakes
Which is to say nothing, which is where we are now
Which is why all writing is now "irony," a nothingness, a Gawker-land of 95% ironic attacks against the last small bastions of the gods, which they hate
When everything divine has been thrown away, all that's left is human mockery. Modern "irony" is the device of the inhuman.
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Well it turns out the extreme risks of globalist liberal democracy is that it results in the gradual extermination of the very people capable of maintaining it.
Note how fertility rates crater every time civil rights are widely expanded. Global-liberalism destroys human ability.
The first three graphs show dysgenic fertility. They're all modern, global-liberalism in action.
The last one shows eugenic fertility during the Middle Ages: along with a transition period in the Industrial Revolution where the reproduction of human ability became flat
"Eugenics" is of course a hate-word, so let's replace it with a kind-word: "sustainable"
So what we see here is that cosmopolitan global liberal whatever is a non-sustainable devourer of human capital
Which means that the longer it persists, the worse the collapse will become
With another round of BLM riots kicking off, just keep it in perspective that the odds of an unarmed black person being unjustly killed by police is now down to roughly 1 in 100,000
Over the course of a *lifetime*
To put it in perspective, the number of unarmed black people killed in bad police shootings each year is the same as the number of Americans killed by snakes (5)
More perspective: if you're a white South African farmer, you have a 10% chance of being murdered in your lifetime
You know how people use the phrase "struck by lightning" as paraphrase for "something that basically never happens"
According to weather.gov, an unarmed black person is exactly as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as they are by police.
Since the prizes awarded by these institutions are 100% fake, this means the institutions are 100% fake as well: and yet as @toad_spotted describes in this piece, the supposedly brightest people in our society are increasingly subservient to them
Hence fake elites
It's no coincidence that "the admissions office are presumed true and righteous altogether": since the prizes they offer aren't real, their judgment on who deserves a seat at the table can be 100% arbitrary
As long as people keep buying into the delusion it will only get worse
There's a freaky parallel here where once scientific progress banishes the demons of Malthus, relaxing selection pressures to almost nothing, the resulting void immediately conjures up new social demons to recreate the genetic grinder we thought we were escaping
Note for instance how it's no longer "safe" to have just 1 kid, because of the large chance he/she will be reversed into she/he, or made a eunuch drone in the hive-city, extincting your genetic line. Reason says you should have several
The new demons aren't material, but psychic
And so far, the *psychic* demons are turning out to be far more dangerous to humanity's future capital than all of the demons of droughts, famines, plagues, wars, and cave bears ever were
The bind that liberalism has put itself in is very simple. It promises a level playing field, but when you actually play the game, it keeps resulting in unequal outcomes between different groups
"Reasonable people" should conclude that something is fundamentally wrong with it
Wokeness buys liberalism's basic promise—all groups are equal in ability, and we will treat them fairly—then watches as the system keeps spitting out "unfair" disparities
From this perspective, it is perfectly reasonable and logical to then say "Well this system is just a lie"
There's no escape hatch here. If you're a liberal, and you keep seeing big disparities in outcome between races or genders or etc, logic insists you should become Woke to correct this
You're only quibbling about the best Woke policies. Not that Wokeness is itself wrong
Here's a simple test of the non-woke left's defenses against the woke.
Differences in outcome between men and women, and people of different races, are very clear. Look at crime rates, for instance. What explains these differences?
You don't exactly have to be Bobby Fischer to think through the next 2-3 moves here
Poverty, right? Material outcomes? Well if everyone is equal, what causes some groups to continually lag behind in material outcomes?
What explanation exists besides systemic racism?
Cultural differences? All right, well if the dominant culture privileges itself, shutting other cultures out of the wealth that is necessary to access resources, become educated, and succeed, how is that not just another form of systemic racism by the ruling white culture?