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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 19, 2024

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How many of those young men actually believe this? Like pretty clearly feminist dating advice is bullshit- but pretty clearly to adults, which these are not.

This is surely not an isolated example of progressive ideas supposedly benefitting young men by following them.

but pretty clearly to adults, which these are not.

The younger generations spend a massive amount of time on the internet and information spreads extremely quickly. "Incel ideology", if you broaden it to include general red-pill concepts, isn't just an accepted fact of life among the zoomers but such a noticeable piece of their vocabulary that terms like "Mewing", "Sigma" and "Alpha" are frequently thought of as zoomer slang.

Talk to young men and you'll see. They know they're getting a raw deal and nobody cares. I was even surprised at how much more unhinged zoomers are than myself. I still have some internalized ideas of civility even if I know intellectually it doesn't mean anything. They don't.

Now that's not to say that they're all right wing, but there is a very consistent rejection of progressive dogma. Which isn't surprising given it has absolutely no place for men in it.

I was even surprised at how much more unhinged zoomers are than myself. I still have some internalized ideas of civility even if I know intellectually it doesn't mean anything. They don't.

I’m intrigued! Can you provide some anecdotes?

Are you actually surprised? Where were Zoomers even supposed to learn civility?

I will clarify that I didn't mean that exactly. They are not more right wing in my experience. They're just a lot more cynical that I've ever seen even Xers pretend to be.

In particular they don't give the slightest thought to the holy cows that are foundational to the boomer mythology of the Post War Consensus. The millenial reflexively shudders at criticisms of Israel that he knows are dangerous. The zoomer doesn't even know why he should.

The millenial reflexively shudders at criticisms of Israel that he knows are dangerous. The zoomer doesn't even know why he should.

Hmm… is it that the Zoomer truly doesn’t know why the cow was ever sacred, or that he (rightly or wrongly) thinks that Israel has milked the sacred cow dry?

It's probably both, but I like to see the ignorance of the zoomer as the blood of the lamb washing our sins. No grudge lasts forever. You have to not even comprehend the question of which pill to choose to really escape the matrix.

I wouldn’t say I’m surprised, exactly, just morbidly curious to hear examples of unhinged Zoomer incivility.

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