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A good read from el gato malo - what a difference a generation makes? ==== if you’d like to understand why the generations above you have so little respect (and increasingly so little tolerance) for your cohort, it’s simple: everything we made was optional and opt in. interesting people did interesting things and if you liked them, you got on board. and that was cool. and if you didn’t, you didn’t. and that was cool too. but you and yours took the awesome stuff we built for you and you politicized it all. you turned it from the ask of “accept me?” upon which our culture was based to an institutionalized demand of “accept me!” backed by the force and institutions of the state and of mass media and indoctrinated into curriculums and cancel culture. you have not pushed boundaries, you have captured institutions. and that’s not art. it’s soviet. what’s the difference between commerce and theft? consent. ... this issue and gen X’s distaste for what you and those you courted became was never about identity or phobia. it was about choice. it was about liberty and free expression including the right not to care or to disapprove. that which may not be criticized is not rebellion. it’s orwellian. and, in no small irony, back in 1984, we did not do this. ====

cultural consent and experiential inversion

why the rebels of gen X find the "artists" of gen Y so intolerable

Trump is fallible, attention-seeking, desiring praise and appreciation, etc. I also think he has done - or is trying - to do more for Americans than any president since Reagan. And I believe he is encountering opposition at every turn...even within his own party...because it is a Uniparty that does NOT care for its constituents. They only want job security so they can follow the Pelosi path to (insider trading) riches. Or, someone has pictures of them doing things outside the law...

El gato malo does not write to condone violence or intolerance. So I find this is a worthy read to ponder. ==== and past a point, “the good ones” stop being worth the price. i hate it. you want ahmed al-ahmed in your country. seems like a helluva stand up guy. but if the price of him is “these other two” the calculus rapidly goes sour. if you had a wasp’s nest on your deck and you kept getting stung when you went outside, would you say “well, not all the wasps in this nest have stung me, let’s give them a chance?” maybe once. maybe twice. probably none if you have any sense, wasps being wasps, but regardless: past a point, wasp’s nest is a wasp’s nest, and you cannot have it near where you live. ... an attack was foiled this weekend in bavaria. the plan was to ram vehicles into a christmas market killing as many people as possible. this was planned in and encouraged by the local mosque. so, you tell me, is this “islamophobia?” because from where i sit, it’s the christmas markets that all need (seemingly with justification) crash barriers to protect them and yet the mosques are all wide open and safe. if this were prejudice and predation against muslims, it would be the other way around, no? christmas would be safe and prayer rugs at risk. is it “phobic” to fear something that keeps attacking you? ====

if not invasion, what?

calling things by their names