We are reentering an Age of Darkness most notable for the death of reason. Symptoms abound. But why?
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- Death of reason - “70% of Republicans believe the election was stolen, [America] a land where fundamentalist religion has poisoned culture and bigotry and hate has rendered politics a fools game.”
- Consolidation of wealth into a few elites and the death of the middle class/ working class - “The wealth of billionaires increased by about 50% during the pandemic. Think about that for a second. The world’s handful of richest people grew unimaginably wealthier while millions of people were dying.”
- Democracy is under assault - “Trumpism in America, Modi’s fanatical religious supremacism in India, Britain’s fervid, idiotic Brexit nationalism, and so on. Even in Canada and Europe, fanatical right wing movements have made significant inroads towards destabilising society.”
- Neo-fascism is flourishing - “The bargain of modernity is not working out very well for working classes. Fascism is about purity of blood, the idea that some people are subhuman, and some superhuman. Below them come the subhumans, whose bloodlines are tainted by violence, laziness, stupidity, and so forth.”
- The world regressed not progressed. - “All our efforts to make a fairer, better, nobler world — they stalled, and went into reverse, and all that happened before the pandemic.”
The Lights of Reason, Truth, and Democracy Are Going Out
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1. We just spent 4 years of people believing trump was an illegitimate president? Stacey Abrams is still running around saying she is the real governor of Georgia. Hillary saying the Russians stole the election. Bush Jr in 2000, although that was the most legitimate of all the concerns.
2. That's just capitalism. As intended
3. Things have been that way throughout civlized history. The lack of nationalism is the outlier here
4. Regular old fascism is the norm. So you would expect most people to return to a neo fascist stance. Most countries are not as liberal as us.
5. This is delusion. Violence rates go down. Huge weath creation. We create more food than the world needs, we just can't get it to the right people. Everything is going in the right direction. Especially if you're an American.
A much more worrying trend than all this is that rich people don't have babies and we're gonna die out/be ruled by senior citizens.
