"It is the purpose that drives us" Agent Smith
By destroying all the mechanism and systems that emanated purpose for individuals the West cut its own throat. What did it destroy?
In essence, this is the path we walked. "Social Justice" "Political Correctness" "Communism" "Socialism," and other words describe a "Cleaver" used on the soft meat of western culture. The first wound, the school system, infiltrated by people determined to destroy. Let Dolores Umbridge tell you how it is.
If you eliminate all the meaning that people get from all the structures enumerated earlier, you set people on the path to depression. And what is the depressed state? Immobility, inaction, numbness, and surrender. If you want to crush a people, this sounds like the perfect state of mind.
Remember your last strategy game? The battle was lost if the troops had bad "Morale." When people become hopeless when they see no purpose in pursuing the current goal or they have no goal to begin with, they crumble and stop resisting the outside world.
In the West, meaning was carved out relentlessly for at least 100 years. Christianity was mocked and ridiculed as a useless set of ideas and archetypes. I did this too. By latching on to the irrational part of religion, we discarded all the right stuff without analysis. A rookie mistake, one should be very careful in toppling done the core system that created western civilization in the last 2000 years. Maybe there is more meaning there that we can't comprehend right now.
Let Jordan Peterson tell a few things about meaning.
We have discarded nationalism, again because like anything in this world it has a bad side. Compliance and total allegiance that resulted in world war is one big bad side. No one took the time after the second world war to note that if you want to dispense with the nation state, an uglier total global state will appear without the meaning of beeing part of a community of like-minded people. Nation states are about our group of similar ethnic people or more importantly "idea similar" group (The US in the past) against other groups. Competing with others in trade and innovation as the good side and war and domination as the bad side. It also gives you choice. If you don't like one group you can move, in the new global superstate, there is no place to move to. Mars maybe.
Comunity is at the small level. Do you know your neighbors? Do you talk to them, help them, feel comfortable and trust them? if you do you live in a community if you don't, you are isolated. There is meaning in small communities. Everyone can do something that is appreciated by members. You can help out, share stuff, speak about troubles and feel safe. If something happens, you are not alone.
Familly is the core unit. You can count on them for anything; they will do all that they can to help you and stay together. Now imagine if you manage to destroy the concept of family in people's minds. You do that by weaponizing feminism. Make women hate men and vice-versa. Keep them separated, get them to compete and not complement each other. Isolate the individual completely.
Without religion, a country or a community and not even a family, a person is left without purpose and afraid.
In the end, after all has been taken, the solution is given. Stuff your mouth with food, stuff your mind with movies, distract yourself with anything you want, just keep going to work and pay taxes. At the end devoid of meaning and purpose this is all you are, a domestic tax animal and you have no reason to resist.
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