The most slutty, feminist, addicted, financially/mentally unstable women I know went home during peak COVID.
They're *over it*; don't want their phones blown up, or to go 'out', hate social media. They LOVE TLOU/Walking Dead, are getting into 'simple living' & 'country things'.
They are talking about the modern world, from bars, clubs, and booze, to social media technology and being overly accessible, like Ted Kaczynski and Pentti Linkola talked about it. They are spending time with their grandparents. They are saying sex positivity was bullshit.
I dont take them at their word, because none seem to have admitted the engine of our enslavement to the technological hellscape economy was its orientation towards the career and consumer desires of liberated, unmarried, childless, sexually free women of now three generations
But the slow-living, put the phone away, send a letter to friends, cook yourself dinner, dont buy so much crap, cities and dating apps are evil memes have all arrived in the consciousness of young women, utterly damaged goods as they may be. They will percolate down to children.
Young girls and boys look up to COOL chicks and BAD dudes (read this in the Thomas777 voice), not their parents, when finding footing as tweens/teenyboppers/adolescents.
They want to be JUST like Big Sister and Big Brother. If you had younger siblings, you know what I mean.
What exists, via the same demon-phone-technology is an opportunity to outcompete System propaganda for those minds; damaged late Millennials + early Zoomers, the devastated & rootless looking for some way out. If we don't supply it, the System will. It will co-opt everything.
homesteading will turn into banishment
rejecting consumerism will turn into a accepting austerity
eating healthy and being strong will turn into becoming dependent on system nutrients and meal schedules
rather than buying up land and growing our own food modesty, POD AND BUGS
The temporarily embarassed millionaire mentality of DTC lifestyle "it's okay I'm broke, im young and cool and live in a city, interest rates on credit cards are low" millennials will be SO easily shunted into becoming something like childless serfs—if they aren't already
And yet what we could do is create pathways for them to be—if still damaged and scarred and GUILTY and SHAMEFUL participants in the Infinity Days of Sodom orgy that is 21st Century Occidental Liberalism—escapees from it as well. Escapees who exhibit better lives for youth to see.
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@mollistan@0x49fa98@sherylsandberg I personally think that most men who marry DO indeed marry older women. Because very few women attain the age of 45 having never been married;
However, think about the year you got married vs. 2016's numbers of unmarried women in their 30s. The paradigm you lived is ending;
@mollistan@0x49fa98@sherylsandberg Essentially, the extent to which women sleep around while delaying marriage for education, earning, and experiences and the number of women who do, has reached record highs
This is totally unprecedented (and a huge market for Lululemon!)
Most anti-natalism (particularly from TRADS!) is the position that women should get married and have children—but not waste more than even ONE day of their youth on their husband than necessary to exercise fertility.
@0x49fa98 Secular feminists emphasize that women should be banging lots of dudes, then find a nice pliant provider— @sherylsandberg of Facebook put it this way in Lean In:
@0x49fa98@sherylsandberg Traditional Conservatives, like @DennisPrager assert that the 70% of no fault divorces initiated by women (Dennis, that's just like those 'elective abortions', btw—the woman wasn't abused in anyway, but she was...unhaaappy!) are no biggie!
Before @getswype fires me for always being on mute camera off in standup, let's talk about how Swype will enable the pseudonymous economy and Exit from legacy institutional control of your life.
Today when a business employs you, you are almost certainly a W-2 employee or 1099 contractor. Your real name, your emergency contacts (i.e. your spouse, your parents, your siblings), your face, phone number, home address—all of these are reported or become highly discoverable,
Furthermore, these things are now linked to you for people who are not even your employer. Anyone online who discovers this info can also find your employer with a little digging.
In the Before Times, we had phonebooks but did we have roving bands of cancellation fanatics?
The leverage the State—the one that failed on covid, the financial crisis, student debt, housing policy, infrastructure, endless foreign wars—has over you, is your life is enumerated in its currency; your labor, assets, transactions.
This is a shadow form of citizenship.
There are people from the EU who, if here on holiday for instance, can swipe their bank cards and pay US merchants dollars. There's a conversion from euros to dollars, bc the numbering systems depend on 'purchasing power parity' and govt buying and selling in FX markets.
A European who does equivalent labor for equivalent effort to an American historically has found that he does about 1.15 to 1.50x better in terms of prices. He might be significantly underpaid in total terms, though.
But his economic life, his holdings of 'wealth', are euros.
On snapchat's map, or via firsthand Afghan accounts we can see Kabul is peaceful and Afghan daily life goes on—only the airport was chaotic *bc of US promises to 'evac' everyone*
similarly, on
January 6th, most of DC, and the US writ large, was just business as usual. You can go back and see your credit card activity or texts or work emails and see what you were up to, lol. Outside of a few LARPers 'saving democracy' (some in the know, some useful idiots)—calm
Simply;
No one was ever going to 'overthrow the US govt' by breaking into a random Congressional office and tossing papers around. That's now how #Insurrection works. The US is 300MM+ people over 4 MM sq miles. It has a military with nukes lol. What a totally moronic proposal!
Decentralization of finance (including reduced reliance on the inflated US dollar), exit from the media-polity's fixation on the circus-politics of wokes via DAOs/pseudonymity, more homesteading, less renting, personal farming & manufacturing
While it's not strictly true that "America is just an idea" (cf. Ilhan Omar lol), the notion that Americans are a nation which embody an *archetype* is compelling
It's more than Faustian, it's something even more;