What will be the next big form of woke/red pilled? -

[Pop-Tart]

In ye olden internet of 2007 to about 2012 I when being a smug atheist was the way to show how smarter you were then everyone else. Now a days its regular political wokness, being a race realist/iron guard rexist/tankie/insert thing here.

I have no doubt this shit will spazz out down the line. What will replace it? What will be the new form of being smarter then all?

 

[Hell0]

Traping your self inside of a hyperbolic sleep chamber to escape reality and ascend to nirvana.

 

[Neil]

Divorced and homeless.

Because that's how all of these people are going to end up.

 

[Tranhuviya]

Being JWOKE

 

[eldri]

Probably but I believe an anti-social media sentiment will come. I've noticed the word "lolcow" becoming more prevalent in small realms outside here and /cow/ so it may gain quite the notoriety in the next few years. If so, it could be used as a schoolyard insult to laugh at those around you in real life.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I still think it's funny that two of the world's biggest troons came up with the red pill/blue pill metaphor.

I wonder how they feel about it...

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Whatever it is, we won't like it.

 

[BoatBoy420]

dying

 

[uncleShitHeel]

I don't know. It'll be completely fucking stupid either way.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

At this point with all the "REEE whitey" and the absolute gender-blender in popular and social media I wouldn't be surprised if we swing back to good old fashioned hardcore conservatism.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

It'll be between those who accept our new alien overlords and those who think that first group is crazy, what alien overlords?

 

[Judge Holden]

I find that each new cancerous social trend directly follows on from the previous cancerous social trend in some way.

SJW shit was in part a reaction against the transgressive edgelordy yet still progressive and liberal fedora shit of the immidiate late bush-post bush era (i.e. 2006-2012)
Transgressive edgelordy yet still progressive and liberal fedora shit was a backlash against the "MURICA AND JAYSUS! FREEDOM FRIES! ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME SUPPORTS TURRORISM!" schtick of 2001-2007
"MURICA AND JAYSUS! FREEDOM FRIES! ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME SUPPORTS TURRORISM!" schtick was not just a reaction to 9/11 but also to the clinton era PC movement and the ideas of a more unified and federalised world in the post cold war era. And so on into eternity

It is not merely a shift in political aligment from left to right or right to left, its a shift in tactics and methodology and the level of how absolutely cultish shit is. Say what you like about the fedora era or the weak PC shit of the clinton era, they were nowhere near as aggressively cultish and "IF YOU NOT WITH ME YOU ARE EVIL!" tinged as the SJW shit or the MURICA AND JAYSUS! shit at their nadir.

I think that generally speaking the cycle usually works like this.
a) reasonable progressives become the most popular cause
b) megalomaniacal and cynical and batshit crazy people join up and turn this cause into an autistic cultish shitshow
c) reasonable conservatives steadily become the most popular cause on the back of everyone getting sick of the crazystupid progressive cause
d) reasonable conservatives become the most popular cause
d) megalomaniacal and cynical and batshit crazy people join up and turn THIS cause into an autistic cultish shitshow
e) reasonable progressives steadily become the most popular cause on the back of everyone getting sick of the crazystupid conservative cause

However thanks to 9/11, the fairly chill (but visibly turning towards PC shittery) progressive wave of the late 90s was abruptly shifted to a immediate and sustained crazystupid conservative cause. Had 9/11 not happened its entirely likely that the SJW shit would have emerged during the middle bush era.

Using this metric I think its fairly reasonable to say that we are going to have a good 4-8 years of fairly chill centre right shit, followed by some kind of fundie/fringe political cause crazy train for another few years after that

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

It'll be between those who accept our new alien overlords and those who think that first group is crazy, what alien overlords?

Well the lizard-men, of course.

 

[DrJonesHat]

At this point with all the "REEE whitey" and the absolute gender-blender in popular and social media I wouldn't be surprised if we swing back to good old fashioned hardcore conservatism.

Trump was a reaction to those things. How long it lasts remains to be seen.

 

[uncleShitHeel]

Trump was a reaction to those things. How long it lasts remains to be seen.

It'll likely get worse as idiots double down on either side.

 

[NARPASSWORD]

We blow ourselves up.

 

[Russian Civil War]

We blow ourselves up.

Inshallah.

 

[Dangerhair]

It'll likely get worse as idiots double down on either side.

I think a big part of the problem, at least in the USA, is that both sides are pining for an America that no longer exists and cannot, in the foreseeable future, be recreated: The America that existed between 1945 and 1972.

There were a lot of factors that are responsible for why that time period was so good for so many:

-In 1945, America was at the zenith of its international prestige. The USA helped defeat Hitler and Mussolini, and while all that was going on, stomped Tojo pretty much singlehandedly. Far from being decadent isolationists, America stepped in and saved the free world by smashing fascism west of the Iron Curtain and containing communism behind it.

-America was militarily unassailable. Germany and Japan were utterly defeated. The Soviets didn't discover the atomic bomb until 1948, and had no means of delivering it until the Tu-95 bomber became operational in 1955. The USAF ruled (and rules) the skies. The USN ruled (and rules) the waves with the most, the biggest and best battleships, cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers. Her submarines rule the depths. The USN is also the world's 2nd largest air force. America could go wherever she wanted and nobody could stop her- the Red Navy was a joke and the air force able to defend territory but not project power.

-Oil. In 1939, the USA produced 70% of the world's oil supply and had the world's largest tanker fleet.

-Production capacity. After WW2, newly built or expanded plants began producing civilian goods. The USA was the only major industrialized nation to not be severely impacted by WW2- Canada and Australia were too small to be much competition and were often home to US branch plants. Britain was battered, Germany and Japan devastated. France and Italy relied then on lots of semi-artisianal workshop labour and could never really compete. China was largely undeveloped and the Soviet Union was an economic mess. America had no real competition.

-Labour processes were much less automated and much more labour intensive than they are now and needed a huge unskilled worforce to draw upon.

Long story short, the rest of the world caught up and industrial automation charged forward, but politicians didn't- and don't- know how to deal with it.

 

[uncleShitHeel]

I think a big part of the problem, at least in the USA, is that both sides are pining for an America that no longer exists and cannot, in the foreseeable future, be recreated: The America that existed between 1945 and 1972.

There were a lot of factors that are responsible for why that time period was so good for so many:

-In 1945, America was at the zenith of its international prestige. The USA helped defeat Hitler and Mussolini, and while all that was going on, stomped Tojo pretty much singlehandedly. Far from being decadent isolationists, America stepped in and saved the free world by smashing fascism west of the Iron Curtain and containing communism behind it.

-America was militarily unassailable. Germany and Japan were utterly defeated. The Soviets didn't discover the atomic bomb until 1948, and had no means of delivering it until the Tu-95 bomber became operational in 1955. The USAF ruled (and rules) the skies. The USN ruled (and rules) the waves with the most, the biggest and best battleships, cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers. Her submarines rule the depths. The USN is also the world's 2nd largest air force. America could go wherever she wanted and nobody could stop her- the Red Navy was a joke and the air force able to defend territory but not project power.

-Oil. In 1939, the USA produced 70% of the world's oil supply and had the world's largest tanker fleet.

-Production capacity. After WW2, newly built or expanded plants began producing civilian goods. The USA was the only major industrialized nation to not be severely impacted by WW2- Canada and Australia were too small to be much competition and were often home to US branch plants. Britain was battered, Germany and Japan devastated. France and Italy relied then on lots of semi-artisianal workshop labour and could never really compete. China was largely undeveloped and the Soviet Union was an economic mess. America had no real competition.

-Labour processes were much less automated and much more labour intensive than they are now and needed a huge unskilled worforce to draw upon.

Long story short, the rest of the world caught up and industrial automation charged forward, but politicians didn't- and don't- know how to deal with it.

But how do you account for the fucktards everywhere else.

For my 5cents I live in New Zealand a country that up until about the mid 50's did most of its trade with Mother England and then had the ecconomy mostly kicked into high gear during the 80's.

If anything - the idots my age (aka under 30) don't have an old NZ to pine for other than complaining that student loans weren't a thing.

There also isn't the same level of political divide or same cultural norms here.

I just put it don't to most people having shitty parents and by virtue of being alive are both retarded, narcissistic and can't see further than their own noses into the future.

 

[eldri]

I was thinking about this more after my initial post.

If progressivism (alongside its abuse of postmodern ideas) continues, a logical outcome would be the disapproval of efforts in space exploration. There is some of this rhetoric in small communities, which boils down to comparing space exploration to imperialism and that the monumental dollars spent on it are better suited for humanitarian efforts.