I think the MAGA movement is going to have to change its name to the MANK movement.
Make America North Korea
Rather than red hats, they can have grey.
I am like an old man shouting at kids walking past my house for no reason. So suffice to say, I am not a fan of modern late night talk shows from the US (or anywhere) as I find them all too loud, without enough substance. However, as far as the US seems to be concerned, comedy is apparently the only area where political discourse takes place, especially criticism, and it has been happening that way for many years. The comedians and their writers have been lambasting politicians for decades, no matter what side they are on.
Until now.
Other than the desire for humanity to be better, I don't have a dog in the race on any of this, but I do find it ironic how supposed free-speech advocates celebrate the stifling of free speech. With Stephen Colbert and now Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air, the average American should really be questioning what they want their country to be, because it is increasingly looking like a military dictatorship.
The UN report said that "Over the past 10 years the government has exercised near total control over people, leaving them unable to make their own decisions" - be they economic, social or political. The report added that improvements in surveillance technology had helped make this possible.
One escapee told researchers these government crackdowns were intended "to block people's eyes and ears. It is a form of control aimed at eliminating even the smallest signs of dissatisfaction or complaint,"
I get it. People love to identify with some kind of political position, be it left or right, red or blue, green or black. People love to be on the winning team and point scoring against the enemy, whomever their particular enemies may be on any particular day. I get it. People love to see the people they don't like, the people who believe differently than they, the people who make them feel uncomfortable, punished. But seriously - is this how you want to identify yourself? No matter what side you are on.
It is pathetic.
Grow the fuck up.
And yeah, these various talk shows are doing it for the ratings, as all the media does it, because that is how they get viewership and sell their adverts and make their money. All the news channels are the same, and the newspapers and the social media platforms. It is all about creating division in order to generate views.
Last night a friend visited (They are from the US) and he was talking about how much of a mess the world is currently and mentioned how the term "conservative" is misunderstood. And I fully agree. Because conservative means to conserve, and in order to conserve something, you have to have something worth conserving. As ownership goes down and people feel less responsibility to their community because they have less stake in it, we are shifting into a position where the only thing people are looking to conserve, is their chosen identity. And the identity they are choosing has nothing to do with their behaviour, but with their imagination.
While people put a lot of labels on themselves and each other, it is interesting to consider that the "left" are seen as liberals and the "right" as conservatives, when neither are true. When people are forced to adhere to some kind of made up labelling system for identity, those enforcing are trying to conserve their belief system. When people are trying to conserve freedom of speech by silencing those who speak what they don't want to hear, well... are they insane?
Yes - it is all insanity.
As I was saying to my friend last night, the problem is that because people have less ownership in the game, less skin, all that they have to protect is their idea of themselves. This means that they are looking to score points against their enemies, with the irony being that no one is keeping score. Because as they scream into the void, they are their own referee on whether it is a point or not. If they feel they have scored a point, they cheer themselves, even though no one else is actually paying attention, because everyone else is screaming into the same void.
A black hole of miserable people talking to themselves.
That is what the conversation is now, because it certainly isn't discourse. Discourse implies two or more people having a discussion, but the vast majority of the conversational content created on social media goes unseen, unread, and unreplied to. Only a tiny fraction of the accounts on X get a reply to a comment they make. But there are all the people feeling they successfully scored points for their team.
The only points being scored is the money being made by people who value ownership.
When people are conserving their identity, what they are actually doing is lifting their own ego to utmost importance and saying that it is their own personal dictator. No matter what happens in the world, no matter which needs arise and what kinds of behaviours are required, the ego has to be preserved.
I can't change, the world has to change to accommodate me.
But each individual ego is so rigid, so unbending, so conservative that it can't tolerate a place where other diverse egos exist. Which is why we keep disconnecting and separating ourselves. The narcissism of small differences taken to the extreme.
If your sense of self depends on everyone else acknowledging and accepting you the way you believe yourself to be, in a way that you believe they should treat you, you are in for a bad time. Yet, that is what we have created as a norm in society today, where we expect that we should never feel bad, never be challenged, and only hear and see what is pleasant to our particular eyes.
Like fucking mini dictators.
How about Make Humanity Great Again, because we have become a fucking pathetic species.
Taraz
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