Thread by @17cShyteposter

Under a progressive information-state, it's vitally important to erase the immediate past

Otherwise it would be deeply confusing to everyone in that state why my dad, his brothers, and all their friends used to take guns to school in their cars, without a single school shooting

These aren't the bygone days of yore we're talking about, like it's the Founding Fathers. It's my *dad*. He's still alive, I could call him up right now

These events aren't caused by guns. They're caused by something else. That we appear to have no interest in understanding

Stuff like this would have been far far more confusing to my parents, because it was so culturally alien despite them all owning guns all over the place

Therefore the cause is not the guns, but the culture: but the culture can't possibly be examined and replaced. Just the guns

A culture that—if we're just being empiricists here, scientists, the foundation of our society—apparently now regularly drives people to commit acts of mass violence that were just unthinkable when my parents were kids

You would think there would be some curiosity about that

Entire fields of study should be dedicated to rigorous understanding of this.

Demographics, yes of course. But it also requires the cultural amnesia that it didn't used to be this way. When you erase the collective memory of what's normal, you get to reshape what is normal

Crazy, then, that despite this ability to induce cultural amnesia, in service of outlawing guns, gun rights have only gotten *stronger* over the last 30 years

It should have logically been the opposite

So maybe there's some scientific correlation, between erasing people's culture, that they naturally fit within, and inducing the level of alienation that leads to unnatural events like this.

I'm not a scientist. But if I was, this is what I'd want to study. It's only rational.