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In my view these are all the result of a simple fact: people do not feel they belong to the society around them. They do not have the social relations or social support when they need it. They are isolated. Tribeless.
White supremacy is a toxic and divisive belief that cannot serve a country like the US.
We've let the Bohemians dictate Social Norms, this has to stop. Literally dictate, most pronounced through Social media and new Corporate Rules.
Over 2 days, 34 people died in mass shootings.
Over the same time, around 250 people Xed themselves - with enough decency not to take anyone else with them.
In my view these are all the result of a simple fact: people do not feel they belong to the society around them. They do not have the social relations or social support when they need it. They are isolated. Tribeless.
Can't watch CNN at all, it's 24/7 identity politics. "black vs white", "trannies are oppressed by cis gendereds", "americans vs immigrants", you name it... its' non stop liberal propaganda, and it does affect people. They just went all "anti white" shame and it really backfired, just created tribalism. Rich fucks who run that media thought they could control people by shame, instead they created chaos.
People are implicitly stressed by social disharmony and reacting in different ways. They didn't feel such needs in 1950.
Get Pedophilia to be just another "Sexual Preference", with the perps protected by the law, rather than the law protecting the victims.
That will be a red line, and there will be an interesting struggle between the Childless Kreative Klass and those with Children.
They make the assertion that our culture began a decline in 1965 in all areas and in effect a cultural collapse that continues to this day. In just five years '65-'70 we began an entrenched drug culture, no-fault divorce, young people shacking up instead of marrying, "relationships" instead of romance, huge increases in sexual promiscuity, abolition of stigmas associated with single motherhood, the proliferation of new STD's in addition to the old standby's of syphilis and gonorrhea and eventually AIDS, etc. All these things are still in existence today. https://www.amazon.com/New-Evil-Understanding-Emergence-Violent/dp/1633885321/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
This is already in progress with the trans activists and gay activists. The trans bathroom/locker room issue is the best example, where Obama tried to make it a law that dudes can join your daughters in the shower as long as they identify as female that day. Fuck a bunch of that! The push back from parents is already growing intense, and I would estimate around 85% of American are NOT ok with this. The rest are perverts and the hopelessly brainwashed useful idiots.
- suicides, depressions keep increasing, as is the use of drugs.
- the most frequent answer to "how many friends do you have?" is 0.
- frequent mass shootings, apparently often by extremists of various confessions.
- frayed political discourse, highlighted by the Trump circus.
- collapsing relations between genders: feminism, red pill, MGTOW, men boinking hoes.
- anger everywhere: feminists mad at men, strident socialists mad at the rest of society, old conservative farts mad at everything on the left.
All these appear to be independent idiosyncrasies of modern society. Not just the US. Europe is pretty bad too.
In my view these are all the result of a simple fact: people do not feel they belong to the society around them. They do not have the social relations or social support when they need it. They are isolated. Tribeless.
The way the current system works makes it difficult to maintain such relations:
- Live away from your family. The roles of your parents and relatives in your life basically stops when you move to the university.
- Spend most of your time at work. The corporate environment is mind numbing and soul crushing. Detached from any identifiable human motivations.
- come home and crash in front of a Hollywood artificial adrenaline shot or some decerebrating TV.
So the background is already very difficult.
But maybe the worst part is called "the fight against tribalism".
Tribalism is identified as "out group vs in group" and rightly recognized as a virulent source of human conflict.
However it is also the source of:
- belonging (to the group)
- security (helping each other)
- purpose (working for something greater than oneself)
- meaning (narratives)
- social relations.
Tribes can be religious, churches, political (as seen on this forum), nationalistic, sport teams, companies, families, etc.... Most human beings should be part of several "tribes".
But our dear elite is doing everything it can to destroy any trace of tribalism.
Because you see, tribalism is making trade difficult (if you asking what's in for you). Mass immigration is impossible if you have strong tribalism because this is perceived as an intrusion.
Our dear elite sees the world as one humanity made of isolated, tribeless human beings. This is why a movie like "First man" will not show the American flag. This would flatter a national identity (that's bad) and make it harder to sell it in other countries (which have their own healthier tribalism). So we should be welcoming of all. We shouldn't discriminate - ever. i.e. we shouldn't differentiate between people in your group and out of your group. We should not make any foreigners feel bad by being proud of our national identity.
The problem is that human beings psychological well being will always be very limited without tribes.
The problem of this is that countries exist only because of their inner tribalism. Armies are made of soldiers ready to die for their countries, if they believe they belong there. If they believe the other men in the tribe will also be ready to do the same for them. Is that true today? Security for human beings has always been synonymous with being part of a strong tribe of people sharing your beliefs and values.
The problem is if you remove tribes, then people will find new ones, based on random groups on the Internet, and with random, often toxic, narratives. SJW, Antivax, MGTOW, white nationalism, etc, etc....This is exactly the game Putin's propaganda is doing: supporting all divisive tribes in the West. And we are far more vulnerable to that we can imagine. People find relations, and meaning, investing themselves in what are essentially cults.
The recent cases of shooting are by people feeling alienated from the society around them and reaching the conclusion there is no path in front of them but aggression. Look closely: they are all the same. And this is just one facet of the problem.
The problem, finally, is that other countries are not disarming their own tribalisms. Europe for example is far more vulnerable to larger more vibrant tribes like Islam than they imagine.
The entire thing is a very sad case of misunderstanding of what humanity is.