samsamsam: I don't think we've hit rock bottom yet, but eventually, things will turn around. We are on an unsustainable path. Personally, I have no idea what the next ten to twenty years will entail. Between all of the insane ideologies and victim groups that are afflicting us now, great economic instability and an erosion of the middle class standard of living, racial/ethnic/religious tension in many areas, and so on, I think the West is in for a rocky road for perhaps the next generation. Throw in wild cards like a war with China or Islamic terrorists letting off a nuke in a major Western city, and it could be mayhem. I may just live to see us begin to come out of it all right at the end of my life.
Here is what I do think though. One hundred years from now, we're going to end up with something that in no way resembles what we have now. Feminism, progressivism and all the rest of that left wing nonsense that can only exist in fat, pampered societies will be gone.
There are pretty much only going to be two possible ways it can go. Either we will descend into full on law of the jungle third world hellholes with warlords (even if they're called politicians and there is still some facade of democracy) and a free for all beneath them. Or, there will be a massive swing to the right with law, order, morality, and so on. That won't necessarily be Western or Judeo-Christian (it might be Islamic, for all we know, or perhaps even Confucian as a real outside chance, or maybe something new will emerge).
As there have always been, there will be pockets where people get their act together and try to strike a balance between complete nihilistic, morally permissive tolerance on the one hand and outright reactionary fundamentalism on the other (though ironically, what we bemoan at the moment is very fundamentalist in another way), and those societies will be the most successful and come to dominate those around them. Yet over five to ten centuries, they will decay, and some guys in 2614 will be bemoaning fat acceptance and shrill women who are dragging the society down...
As for how to react to all of this now, I think the solution is going to increasingly revolve around one of two possibilities. The first will be to create communities of like minded individuals that try to help each other weather the storm. Obviously, such communities will paint massive targets on their backs as the last remaining bastions of an age gone by, yet they may outlive the rest. All of these freaks with their strange sexual identities, and these careerist women simply aren't going to breed in sufficient numbers, and they will be overtaken by everyone else, provided those other people can somehow inoculate their own children against the mind virus of such people.
The second solution is to just up sticks and be the rat deserting a sinking ship. Keep yourself mobile, keep your capital mobile and just get on with your life. There's a whole world out there. There are places that haven't completely gone to shit yet. I know these clowns in the West are doing their utmost to export their insane ideologies to the rest of the world, but there are still plenty of places that aren't even remotely on board with this nonsense (yet). Nobody loves a fat chick in Asia. Take solace in that. These other societies may have the good sense to see the West repeatedly hitting the self-destruct button and say no to all of it.
Here is what I do think though. One hundred years from now, we're going to end up with something that in no way resembles what we have now. Feminism, progressivism and all the rest of that left wing nonsense that can only exist in fat, pampered societies will be gone.
There are pretty much only going to be two possible ways it can go. Either we will descend into full on law of the jungle third world hellholes with warlords (even if they're called politicians and there is still some facade of democracy) and a free for all beneath them. Or, there will be a massive swing to the right with law, order, morality, and so on. That won't necessarily be Western or Judeo-Christian (it might be Islamic, for all we know, or perhaps even Confucian as a real outside chance, or maybe something new will emerge).
As there have always been, there will be pockets where people get their act together and try to strike a balance between complete nihilistic, morally permissive tolerance on the one hand and outright reactionary fundamentalism on the other (though ironically, what we bemoan at the moment is very fundamentalist in another way), and those societies will be the most successful and come to dominate those around them. Yet over five to ten centuries, they will decay, and some guys in 2614 will be bemoaning fat acceptance and shrill women who are dragging the society down...
As for how to react to all of this now, I think the solution is going to increasingly revolve around one of two possibilities. The first will be to create communities of like minded individuals that try to help each other weather the storm. Obviously, such communities will paint massive targets on their backs as the last remaining bastions of an age gone by, yet they may outlive the rest. All of these freaks with their strange sexual identities, and these careerist women simply aren't going to breed in sufficient numbers, and they will be overtaken by everyone else, provided those other people can somehow inoculate their own children against the mind virus of such people.
The second solution is to just up sticks and be the rat deserting a sinking ship. Keep yourself mobile, keep your capital mobile and just get on with your life. There's a whole world out there. There are places that haven't completely gone to shit yet. I know these clowns in the West are doing their utmost to export their insane ideologies to the rest of the world, but there are still plenty of places that aren't even remotely on board with this nonsense (yet). Nobody loves a fat chick in Asia. Take solace in that. These other societies may have the good sense to see the West repeatedly hitting the self-destruct button and say no to all of it.