There’s a sense in which we are simply watching an inevitable process unfold: the premises we have allowed to spread have inevitable conclusions. As many reach these conclusions and act on them we will discover how many Americans yet oppose the premises.
But the result of this dynamic is that many people of good will are—understandably and not out of cowardice, although there are cowards aplenty these days!—tempted to give up, remain silent, and watch it all unfold. Leave public life, bunker down, move inland, etc., etc.
But it is also true that the outcomes for America are now wildly undetermined, & what is happening demands leadership. In the midst of the deafening silence of cowards & the noise of narcissists, people pine for the right words &—above all—actions to set things right. And fight.
The tension between these two truths is now felt in many souls.
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They’re used to getting away w/deconstructing history & civics, which they’ve done for decades. They don’t like the fact that woke ideology was successfully given a name by @realchrisrufo. Defensive rhetorical move to nominalism (“wut *is* CRT tho”) = rare retreat. Important b/c:
The way this has been purposely done is to conceal radicalism in the wrap of boring buzzwords. This is what commies like Bill Ayers do in education schools. It all comes out of the cocoon a beautiful racist butterfly eventually, but the game is to conceal the insanity.
So pinning a name on a broad theory allows an attack to be made not just on individual (often state sanctioned) racist acts, but upon the roots of that racism, which is tied up into “pedagogy” and a host of other things that push teachers this way. We must keep pushing…
“The crisis of the West consists in the West’s having become uncertain of its purpose. The West was once certain of its purpose—of a purpose in which all men could be united, and hence it had a clear vision of its future as the future of mankind.
We do no longer have that certainty and that clarity. Some among us even despair of the future, and this despair explains many forms of contemporary Western degradation."
—Leo Strauss, 1963 (Introduction, The City and Man)
The obstacle to correcting & preventing gross injustices like what Apple just did to @antoniogm=there’s currently no corrective force—no penalty or punishment—that rises to the level companies like Apple have to really care about.
It will take time. But such incidents need to make these companies bleed out a little more in public opinion with at least half nation and give high octane fuel for partial but real replacements products and services to gain as part of a concerted alternative parallel economy.
Like this should be a national guerrilla ad campaign tied to CTA for specific alternative products and markets:
When all this happened in the 1970s, even mainstream entertainers flirted with patriotism and dissent over and against the incompetent malaise-Borg. The divide has sharpened, yes, and we are in deeper ways worse off now. But make no mistake—real resistance is rising.
It’s not just that if you are concerned you are not alone—you are NOT alone—but it’s that they can’t keep dissent bottled up forever no matter how many fingers of control they try to plug the holes in the dike with. It’s going to start flowing out into the mainstream.
The right is feckless, yes, in the face of the rolling cultural revolution spurred by woke zealots and encouraged by our shameless oligarchs—but people also resent gross incompetence. Trump ain’t President and the 2 Minutes Hate for the Bad Orange Man ain’t gonna cut it no more.
After decades of hearing about “choice” and “stunning & brave” odes to abortion, etc. the sick irony is that women with kids (too many!, too young!) are the ones who take all the slights in our culture from all our major institutions. The real intolerance is clear enough.
And so much inner peace, happiness, & fulfillment on display surrounding all these women w/o kids—affirming the ability & choices of other women to have kids, of course. After all, U.S is in midst of historically low birth rates + older than ever which will cause massive problems
So we should be happy for those able and willing to choose life, no? Instead of believing laughable but convenient lie of a PSYOP about how low birth rates are good, acktually?
We need new models of local community that support families and family formation, remote & local work, & physically encourage actual local/regional political self-government—that old notion is a distant memory. We need new/better as in beautiful but still functional architecture.
What this will take practically is higher political powers/leaders prioritizing the creation of such space/slipstreams here and there instead of going with the flow and doing the usual garbage. Experimentation with new models arising from acknowledgement of the problem.
Will also take communities forming or becoming more intentional by actively congregating and demanding solutions. Doesn’t have to get weird. But will require far more engagement than usual & exercise of more leadership/action that is the norm. Often based around existing networks