Hard to do, isn’t it? Equally hard to imagine a government that would support such a thing even though it would be logical and contribute in immediate and useful ways to the resolution of this economic collapse through stupidity and inaction.
What happens to the people who spent all day worrying about pronouns before this whole thing? Do they grow balls–wherever they started from–and find courage to face and see the truth? Not at all. They default to fear and obedience.
I think of Bertolucci’s “Il Conformista”, of people who just bounce from here to there, always in fear, always hiding, never seeing, never deciding for themselves.
It’s hard not to conclude that America is ripe for some form of technocratic Fascism. People do not think for themselves. They seemingly have lost the capacity to reason. They follow even idiotic orders blindly, and demand others do the same.
As I posted elsewhere, I think most of America, if some noted expert came on their favorite media outlet and told them the sky was now green, would doubt their eyes, not the expert.
It’s unbelievable. For me, I am pulling inward somewhat. Fuck these people. Not everyone is an idiot, but most people are. Perhaps it has always been so. But we all get ‘educations” now. Why–and of course I know the answer but will ask the question anyway–is it so damned ineffective? Why have our allegedly best and brightest repudiated everything that makes our culture work, and which has done so much to promote global peace and prosperity?
Anyone who condemns sexism, or racism, or discrimination against homosexuals, etc., does so using WESTERN IDEALS. There is no analogue anywhere else. These ideas were created and promulgated by dead white males.
Oi.