Quote: (04-11-2018 09:02 PM)Kid Twist Wrote:
When things turn from surivival, principle, and logic to "fairness", feelings and yes you guessed it "equality" ... the countdown has begun.
This.
Culture eventually becomes a victim of its own success in times of surplus.
Note that the time that everyone hearkens back to is the 1950s. Why? Because you had the "Greatest Generation" who grew up during the depression and had just fought WWII. Those men came back home and conquered private industry and f*cked the sh*t out of their wives to make the baby-boom. Everyone knew their place and didn't go all snowflake because the needs of greater society were more important than their personal dreams and dark fantasies.
It's the whole Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs thing. Societies that are living a hardscrabble life are closer to how we were optimized to live through evolutionary biology. Tight bands of tribes. We needed to get along even if we hated each other--just for pure survival. That whole way of life persisted in one shape or form throughout most of history until we start entering the pushbutton era of creature-comforts, which has gone into overdrive thanks to the internet, smart-phones, and being able to order or stream anything you want without leaving the house.
Once all your basic needs are met your mind starts fishing around for more nits to pick. That is basically feminism in a nutshell, which is why feminism moves from one crusade to the next, manspreading, mansplaining, manhugging, #metoo, #inclusionriders, etc...
All of that shit goes out the window if, let's say, North Korea managed to Nuke Hawaii or Los Angeles or we got into a hot war with Russia over how we're dealing with Syria.
It's the same reason why the rich start fixating on trivial things like their golf swing or the quality of the caviar at the country-club. To them that's the most important thing in the world, but to anyone who isn't rich, it's petty bullshit. That's where our culture is now in how we decide what's important and what to be outraged about. Everything's relative.
Surplus creates decadence, fosters all the deadly sins, destroys the need for social bonds, and creates a void of meaning that has been filled by SJWs getting triggered to the point of insanity. We've seen this happen in past civilizations. Sodom and Gomorrah and the end of Rome. Humans aren't wired to handle surplus well. We all have addictive personalities just waiting for the right conditions.