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Is it though? or is it the disenfranchised finally are able to have their opinion heard? We also get to see the emperors now and we realise they have no clothes

Is it though? or is it the disenfranchised finally are able to have their opinion heard? We also get to see the emperors now and we realise they have no clothes - they're just like us. My hope is this is a brief period of education of everyone to see each others opinions and something better can come of it. As always there are those at work trying to maintain their positions. For myself I have learnt a lot about the belief systems of other people from the internet. I can only hope others are doing the same, we all have to get along. Edit: I think of it as the great flattening, to coin a term, previous societies were hierarchical with people in charge handing down dogma. There were some dissenters - they were called antisocial at one stage. Now everyone is at the same level, I've had conversations on forums with people who invented tech, wrote books I've read, I could if I was so inclined seek out other fields - everything is open now. This is bound to cause some 'beefing'. End of beef.

4thwaywastrel 7y ago
I don't think the posted conception of the culture war as a "holding pattern of conflict" is incompatible with the idea that it's also a legitimate outpouring of the voice of the disenfranchised. Some might say that we've become stuck in that outpouring, and enamoured with conflict rather than any kind of coherent vision for how to be.
- chadcmulligan 7y ago
  Could be, maybe these conflicts are fundamental to being human and no resolution is possible? This is the new normal?
godDLL 7y ago
Anything that indeed has an 'end of beef' to it might be the battle of the ideologically possessed, a battle of ideas in J. Peterson terms. Because this is the end goal, the consumption and annihilation of other doctrines. But mostly what I gauge out there is indeed IoB. The article is so on-point for me that could just as well have written it myself.

4thwaywastrel 7y ago

I don't think the posted conception of the culture war as a "holding pattern of conflict" is incompatible with the idea that it's also a legitimate outpouring of the voice of the disenfranchised. Some might say that we've become stuck in that outpouring, and enamoured with conflict rather than any kind of coherent vision for how to be.

chadcmulligan 7y ago
Could be, maybe these conflicts are fundamental to being human and no resolution is possible? This is the new normal?

godDLL 7y ago

Anything that indeed has an 'end of beef' to it might be the battle of the ideologically possessed, a battle of ideas in J. Peterson terms. Because this is the end goal, the consumption and annihilation of other doctrines. But mostly what I gauge out there is indeed IoB. The article is so on-point for me that could just as well have written it myself.