Thread by @Aristos_Revenge

I think we're in the middle of the greatest epistemic re-sorting/unraveling of our lives right now. Shiloh Hendrix, Karmelo Anthony, Tariffs, the Civil Rights Act, White Guilt, TFR, WW2, it all ties together.

The death of boomer neuromythology: 🧵

There's been a lot of collected momentum over the last decade of people in the west realizing that things are *really* not ok, that the world doesn't work as it should. One of the most perturbing are many sets of punitive, unfair, illogical double standards.

Which is what the Shiloh Hendrix incident is really about, a refutation of one of those double standards. Don't focus too much on the event itself, the point is not to justify a mom calling some black kid the gamer word, it's not about what type of person she is or is not either.

What it's really about is symbolically refuting the double standards for how behavior is treated depending on the race of the person. And while the most topical mirror to relate from is the murder of Austin Metcalf, we could go on and on. Molly Tibbetts, Cannon Hinnant, etc.

The fact of the matter is that there is more shock and outrage at what Shiloh did than what Karmelo Anthony did. The idea that a white person calling a black person a slur is worth more outrage than a black person murdering a white person for petty reasons needs to end.

That doesn't make sense. The N word isn't magic. It's not some killing word from Dune. And no, black people, whites don't deserve to be *killed* for using it in anger, just like Austin Metcalf didn't deserve to get stabbed for telling Karmelo Anthony not to steal from their tent.

But the wider problem here is that we have several of these deranged, illogical, and punitively enforced double standards. It is inhuman. It is cruel. It has to stop.

And this ride will only get wilder, because the boomers are dying. The neuromythology of one of the largest cohorts ever born during one of the most prosperous times in human history is powerful, but it's now beginning to fade. Their zeitgeist holds this all up.

And the cruellest filter of all on middle class whites has been that you have to understand how to lie to yourself and accept all these double standards as innately true when they are not, if you want access to resources.

The psychological impact of lying to yourself is obvious.

For millennials in particular it's epistemically brutal. The 90's "colorblindness" we were trained to believe was fact, really wasn't. It's pretty obvious at this point that broadly, blacks didn't lose any of their past animosities.

So the only people successfully taught not to see color were whites, which was less of a problem when we had a firm grip on society, like a secular dictator running things in an arab nation. It keeps the Sunni and Shia from killing each other.

But DEI, the "Competency Crisis", mass migration etc, weakened the center to the point where it can no longer hold.

We're no longer prosperous or peaceful enough for people to ignore these problems anymore, you can get away with a lot of inefficiency when you have a surplus.

The racial issue in America is not the reason these problems exist, however. It is a *real* problem, but one cultivated and turned into a cudgel, a punitive instrument of control over the most productive part of the population.

What we're actually starting to notice now, however, is that they're being relied on far too much to conceal the incompetence of the inheritors of our system. They're stretching the limits of belief in these systems. Anything that is a threat is "racist" "sexist" "fascist"

The problem for them is that it's way harder to actually *believe* everything is racist/sexist/fascist than it is to just open your eyes and see all these problems manifesting in our society, right before our eyes.

And now a critical mass of people are seeing the punitive system

The good faith of normal people has been used and abused for decades now, with most of them not realizing it. I think enough people are seeing it and have just stopped giving a shit. The real problems are more obvious than the cudgel being waved in our faces now. "ok I'm racist"

Enough people now want things to make sense more than we want the moral approval of the schoolmarms.

If things make sense, we can develop logical paths to fixing our problems. The deranged double standards and psychological warfare must end. You can't "fix" emotive insanity.

There's so many tendrils of this system we've been living inside for over half a century. I only got to talking about one part of it, but every base is covered.. Religion, Politics, Work, Race, Sex, the only option is to cut the gordian knot and steelman forward.

To rattle off a few things without writing too much further here, but we're in the era where people from 20-60 years old are realizing that when Rosa Parks got on that bus her husband followed it *in their car* because it was a deliberate act.

She had trained at the Highlander Folk School, basically a cadre course for civil rights activists.

Most people know by now MLK Jr was a philandering sex pest and hip deep with the communists.

We're renegotiating tariffs because the deals that had people tariffing us at 40 percent and us tariffing them at 0 percent are no longer relevant, it's all based on outdated, legacy, deprecated sweetheart deals for intangible things that aren't on the books and most of them are no longer relevant.

Usually this or that posture on a diplomatic issue taken in exchange, maybe a favor to the CIA, kicking a Soviet company out of a country as a favor to us, any number of things. It's like the inverse of paying for a subscription on an old service you don't use anymore. Sometimes you go ahead and re-evaluate and cancel a bunch of them or decide what's worth keeping. Year Zero for trade deals was/is a great idea.

LIBOR sunsetted for SOFR, and now the Eurobanks are going to be in a lot of trouble. The mechanisms we used to generate currency to help them rebuild after WW2 were letting them front run us on our own dollar for ages, letting them effectively set the interest rates to a degree.

Near-shoring and reshoring is an absolute necessity. We saw during COVID what happens when your whole supply chain is overseas, and in the hands of a rival no less? It also deprives people of good jobs, making it a race to the bottom with cutthroat competition for laptop jobs, or a bunch of people struggling in the service sector. Service economies fucking suck, and that's why we're gonna start making things again.

We didn't fight WW2 to fight fascism or because of the holocaust or whatever. We entered the war against the wishes of the population after enticing pearl harbor into happening via a trade war with Japan. (Google the Hull Note and the McCollum Memo) We did this so we could transition to a wartime economy to get out of the great depression faster, and because a lot of our own moneyed elites had deep investment in the outcome of continental europe.

So if we didn't fight WW2 for those reasons, we should start looking at those events as history and not mythology. "Fightin the nazis!" has been used as an epistemic reason to always hit the brakes on conservative/right wing politics in the US when the two aren't remotely related. It's why the GOP has been the party of "We're liberal but please go a little slower" for my entire life. That changes too.

Hell I forgot to even include the problems with contemporary american religion and the gender wars

so many problems we need to fix

@DKnobPolishme But I'd like to clarify that I did specify that our elites had vested interests in continental europe as a major motivating factor, and not merely financial ones. I would include the British factor into that.