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The huge ideological change that has occurred in the west in the last 10 years will be a mark in history. When it seemed that we were constantly advancing towa
by young_unixer 6y ago
The huge ideological change that has occurred in the west in the last 10 years will be a mark in history.
When it seemed that we were constantly advancing towards more freedom, something in people's mind snapped, we stopped and then we started walking back in the opposite direction, towards more state control.
How much of this change can be attributed to social media?
- bigbubba 6y agoI'd say 9/11 was part of it, if not the start. And post-9/11 measures being the only 'normal' the youth today have ever known makes it less likely that demand for a return to normal will ever manifest.
- dcow 6y agoI don’t think this has much to do with 9/11. I would recommend reading Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories. There’s a long trail of development that stems back well before the early 2000s.
- chenpengcheng 6y agofreedom is not a trademark of the West. the world one hundred years from now could be very different.
- silicon2401 6y agoThe worst of it is that many of the people pushing for this tragic regression call themselves progressive