the public will become numb to all of it — WISDOMfromPO-MO
The left gets busy with social causes, Use the right pronouns or we'll shame you and take away your livelihood. — fishfry
So we focus on pronouns and statues and virtue signaling. — fishfry
I thought John Maynard Keynes did not care about the long term because, his words, "in the long run we are all dead". Makes sense to me. But in any case, is it true that JMK didn't care about the long run ahead? My guess is that some gay and or childless people care little about the long run than some others, just as it is certain that some heterosexual people with many children do not give a rat's ass about the future. If I was speaking at a large education conference and said "some parents have too many children because they don't care about the future" I would expect to get tarred and feathered (and maybe lynched) even though the statement is (to the best of my knowledge) true... — Bitter Crank
American culture is deeply neurotic at the moment. Terrified of its own shadow. The usual suspect is political correctness. But I think there's another reason. Americans have been at war in the Middle East since 9/11 and it's not going well. We've become a torture regime. We are still in Afghanistan and Iraq and several other countries too. We've spent trillions. But it's all with the "volunteer" army. The left gets busy with social causes, Use the right pronouns or we'll shame you and take away your livelihood.
They do that so they don't have to think about what their nation is doing abroad.
I always had that complaint about liberals. Toss them a bone on gay rights and they'll look the other way on torture. And now that the Supreme Court finally (and correctly IMO) put the issue to bed by legalizing gay marriage, the left needs to screech about pronouns and transgender rights. They need smaller and smaller causes as the foreign policy gets worse and worse.
And the right doesn't much care, they love the wars. The few anti-war conservatives get marginalized, like Pat Buchanan, or absorbed by the swamp, like Trump.
So we focus on pronouns and statues and virtue signaling.
Only a coincidence I'm writing this on 9/11, it would be true any day of the year. But today is sixteen years into this collective insanity. We "honor the heroes" and refuse to ask questions about where our government has taken us since that day. Where we've allowed our government to take us. — fishfry
The phone. That is your drug for dopamine and the source for deppression sometimes. We are getting worse at social interactions because we get the same dopamine from our phone as realtime interaction. It's your daily cheatcode to achive things and a loss of your time, soon people will realize how little they have achived compared to people that has done the opposite. They will start feeling oppressed.
Dopamine makes you feel enjoyment, as you want more of.
This could be because of stress, because of less realtime interactions. Maybe social awkwardness. — 12paul123
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