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>The sexual revolution and its dreadful distortion of human sexuality. Please explain what you mean by this. >So what happens with the waning of religious ide

>The sexual revolution and its dreadful distortion of human sexuality. Please explain what you mean by this. >So what happens with the waning of religious identity? Various dehumanizing ideologies start to look attractive. This explains both the appeal of the sexual, racial, and ecological ideologies that have become popular recently. These ideologies promise identity and social belonging, perhaps even an alleged higher purpose, which is to say they offer false and flimsy identities, ones that have political utility for those who control them. Two things--firstly, are you suggesting that religion is not a dehumanizing ideology? Moreover are you also suggesting that it also doesn't have political utility? I think both of these are demonstrably false given a brief look at history. Secondly, you talk about the "appeal" of sexual and racial identities in recent times, and you seem to refer to these identities as "false and flimsy," can you explain what you mean here? Because it just comes off like you're arguing that anyone who doesn't identify as a cis-white heterosexual has a false sense of self.

huarahuara 3y ago
Not that account, but its obvious a settler society such as America has little unity compared to other societies such as Mestizo or East Asian Societies. A lack of religion, social harmony and cohesion, as well as a typical "American" upbringing leaves many feeling alone and without purpose or family. Combined with the growth of the internet, and you have many people who take up horrid ideologies typically at the far ends of the spectrum to fill the void of not having a loving family or a stable friend group. Its even worse now that the Russians have funded both the NRA and the BLM movement to radicalize both ends of the spectrum. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/765037952/senate-report-reveals-nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016 https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/765037952/senate-report-revea... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144436/ https://www.axios.com/2020/06/10/russian-interference-2020-election-racial-injustice https://www.axios.com/2020/06/10/russian-interference-2020-e... you fell for the Russian Identity politics campaign
- jplusequalt 3y ago
  Identity politics have existed longer than Putin and the internet. People have been fighting for the right to be themselves for a long long time. Also I'd posit that the typical "American upbringing" does little to make you feel a part of in-groups created by traditional American ideals.

huarahuara 3y ago

Not that account, but its obvious a settler society such as America has little unity compared to other societies such as Mestizo or East Asian Societies. A lack of religion, social harmony and cohesion, as well as a typical "American" upbringing leaves many feeling alone and without purpose or family. Combined with the growth of the internet, and you have many people who take up horrid ideologies typically at the far ends of the spectrum to fill the void of not having a loving family or a stable friend group. Its even worse now that the Russians have funded both the NRA and the BLM movement to radicalize both ends of the spectrum. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/765037952/senate-report-reveals-nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016 https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/765037952/senate-report-revea... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144436/ https://www.axios.com/2020/06/10/russian-interference-2020-election-racial-injustice https://www.axios.com/2020/06/10/russian-interference-2020-e... you fell for the Russian Identity politics campaign

jplusequalt 3y ago
Identity politics have existed longer than Putin and the internet. People have been fighting for the right to be themselves for a long long time. Also I'd posit that the typical "American upbringing" does little to make you feel a part of in-groups created by traditional American ideals.