Tl;dr is the culture war is important & fun, but don't care about it
too much. Get the main bits, but don't prioritize it over improving your life.
I've thought about this a lot over many lonely bowls of cereal.*
I have two problems with the culture war. Most are addressed to the younger crowd. The first is over-prioritization & everyone will get this. The second is being realistic about time-preference. Both can be summarized as, "Understand the Culture War, but don't spend too much time on it."
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Addressing the first point, the Culture War itself is not a Psy-Op. There are serious repercussions to going thru life unaware of the things we discuss here. It's like walking thru a minefield, & the stuff we discuss is a mine detector to help you dodge traps.
Marrying a feminist wife, slow govt overreach, unchecked immigration, various financial topics, vaxx injuries. All these are potentially life or country destroying.
Now, what IS a psy-op is the over-prioritization of "culture war" stuff instead of directly improving your life. Media incentives (both alt & legacy) are to brand each issue as the MOST IMPORTANT thing. Media incentives are to be entertaining as hell. Media incentives are to get you outraged at the latest clown happening & waste tons of energy commenting about it. Media incentives are to create personal branding so you have "heroes" & "villains" on both sides. What Soylo Soyanopolous says has NO BEARING on your life.
Once you learn the big picture, further time is entertainment. This is fine, but if you continue to feel urgency & it keeps you away from "real life" things, then you're being psy-opped. Because, trust me, there is very little urgency, but everyday your life is ticking away.
Again, this is mostly addressed to the younger crowd, but a lot of youngsters on our side think that continuing to consume the same content = improving their lives & they end up wasting tons of time. Normies tend to dodge this trap because when they watch TV or whatever, they understand it's entertainment. This brings me to...
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The second point is about realizing that culture war issues take years to play out. Look at the bolded list. Most of these things takes years to realize you've made a mistake. If they hit, they hit hard, but until that time you'll never know.
And that's a HUGE difference between us & the Left. We're cautious about dangers down the road. We're cautious about slippery slopes. But lefties are concerned about what's here right now. This makes them easy to manipulate. You just give them accolades for following the narrative & their scales are Accolades/social acceptance on one side, & Literally Nothing on the other side because they can't see potential issues down the line. It's such an easy sell.
The problem is we tend to fall for the reverse of this issue. We know there are big dangers with the above list, but we forget these take years to play out. So we focus on them as if they're imminent dangers. Thinking they're imminent dangers, we get pissed & confused that normies/lefties don't see things our way. We need to remember that these issues are not imminent OR obvious, & this makes it really hard for others to care. Not being imminent is sort of a good thing, because it gives us time to improve our lives.
I mean, "If you marry a feminist wife, your daughters might slut it up in college & you'll be sorry." Yo, this takes like 20+ years to play out.
- Divorce gets processed as maybe 10 years later = forever = never years away.
- Immigration can ransack a country, but it might take half a decade. In the meantime, Normie Normington doesn't want to be viewed as racist.
- Inflation can wreck your purchasing power, but it won't do it tomorrow.**
- Even mask mandates --> vaxx pass took 1 year+ to play out. We said masks were a slippery slope to something, but Normie thinks, "It's just a mask" because he can't see past his nose.
It's just recognizing a boiling pot. That's 95% of it. You might care. I might care. But normies/lefties
who don't even see the pot will choose the instant gratification every time. When we understand we're looking at completely different timeframes, we'll be more accepting that it's hard to change people's views. Accepting this, we won't get too bothered. Not getting too bothered, we'll put more energy into our own life instead. And then when these issues
finally come due, hopefully we'll be ready. Edit: Basically it's important, but not urgent. Wait, isn't that the same as point 1? No more 3am posting
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Quick 3rd gripe is the whole culture war acts as a distraction from how messed up our money is. Banks print money out of think air & lend it to you with interest. Everything rests on this fact. The left is gay & generally wrong about everything, but while the two sides are busy fighting each other, bankers are picking everybody's pockets. They don't like the left or the right. They just need people to fight. If our money was not based on debt, I'd probably be laughing at memes in my moonbase (Van Allen belt yea yea).
*I do Frosted Flakes first, eat that, then follow with Rice Krispies so the sugary milk makes em taste like the marshmallow squares.
**A reversal of the Triffin Dilemma would result in quick hyperinflation. America's top export is Dollars. This is stated as 'running a trade deficit.' This means cheap goods, but a crapton of dollars overseas. If another currency gains dominance as a reserve or trade currency, you'll see a ton of dollars come back from abroad in a scramble to buy up assets + USD won't subsidize as much consumer goods = stuff gets expensive.
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