So it seems to be rampant on Snapchat, the misogyny and right-wing politics. One video had a woman who decided not to have sex or kids with her husband and some person commented how it was typical of a modern woman not to want to make a baby for the family. This user also commented really bigoted stuff with trans and intersex people. It also gives pick me vibes since apparently this commenter was a woman.
The social-forces of the world are competing for dominance, now.
If you’ve ever seen a video of cell-mitosis, after the asters go to the cell’s poles ( for lack of a better name ), they pull-apart the cell’s DNA to those 2 poles.
Something similar is happening with humankind, right now.
At the deepest level, it is simply the division between people who want a return to animal-reacting “grace”, without moral-anxiety/difficult-thinking, vs the people who’re willing to adapt-to addiction-to-understanding & lots of considered-reasoning.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thinking-fast-and-slow is THE book to understand that level of what’s going on.
Above that level is the level of ideologies/prejudices/politics/“religions” fighting for exclusive regional-dominion & world-dominion.
Different platforms are becoming exclusively-1-culture/ideology or exclusively-another, in this level.
By the early 2030’s, countries will have become completely-owned by specific ideologies/prejudices.
It’s not at that level of polarization, yet.
The book “The Big Sort” is about the US’s sorting itself into ideological-polarized counties, with the minorities moving-out, left and right.
The world’s doing the same thing, now, before the total tantrum/pogrom of humankind’s ideological deathmatch, to find out who “wins” the world.
This is species-“puberty” that is unfolding, this century.
The stages of this include the yin-stages, which are about to completely-finish, & the yang-stages, the 1st of which ( Regional Consolidation ) is about to begin, shortly.
Once it does, expect Trump to launch wars of annexation against Canada, Greenland ( he needs Greenland to enforce Canada’s annexation: to sever Canada’s EU-lifeline ), Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, etc, etc, etc.
He’ll simply use the de-naturalization law that he’s got in-place, but hasn’t touched, to legally make all non-Republicans into “illegals”, making them the legal property of ICE, once he’s invoked the Insurrection Act, or whatever equivalent he’s decided to use, for the complete-removal of accountability & limits to his power/dictatorship.
The 2nd yang-stage begins in the early 2030’s, & continues until the food-chain(s) die, which should be decades.
Now that the context for the ideological-rabies you’re seeing is sketched-out, understand that misogyny is THE gateway-drug of fascism.
Religious-fascism ( including christofascism ), secular-fascism, communist-party-fascism ( collective-fascism ), etc.
Cult-of-identity, eradication-of-diversity, eradication of considered-reasoning, authoritarianism, etc, the whole thing, is the mechanism that fascism embodies.
I don’t accept the established-view that it isn’t fascism when a party/group/collective is doing it: if it’s fundamentally the same thing, then fundamentally it’s the same thing: so keep the name the same, & just identify what’s changed/different, instead of pretending that a different “category” of thing is going on, when it’s the same mechanism.
Here is the proof that misogyny is the gateway-drug of fascism: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637#abstract
As psychologist Susan Pinker noted, in Scandinavia, where women have the most freedom to choose their own career, women & men choose drastically different careers from men: usually people-centered.
I’ve spoken with a few former-soviets, & women worked in “male” ( male-culture ) careers, not because they wanted to, but because they weren’t allowed to work in what they wanted to be working in.
So the communist position that lots of female-engineers is “proof” of how good it is, is contradicted by the evidence that Susan Pinker presented, in her book “The Sexual Paradox”.
Anyways, unless people create platforms ( Fediverse, obviously ) which compete against the mainstream-platforms which are being ideologically-highjacked, then that-category-of-platform ( images, videos, twitter-replacement, reddit-replacement, whatever ) won’t exist for people outside of that ideology, shortly: the polarization’s accelerating, & is going to continue accelerating, until absolute-polarization’s locked-in.
That’ll mean balkanization of the Fediverse, fersure, but it’ll mean that unless people get putting-up servers for the types of services which compete with the different platforms that the mainstream-oligarchy owns, then the real communities are going to simply get used to not having that dimension of “space”, soon.
Exactly as Twitter/X got toxic, quick, all of them are going to, shortly, as standing with Palestinians is outright illegal in England, right now, that kind of shit will be normal, globally, & anybody standing-with women in the christofascist territories, is going to be deemed “terrorist”, soon.
Yes, the world is “losing its mind”, & it’s natural, in this division-between-poles process that world-“puberty” is: it’s The Great Filter, which either nearly-no humankind will survive, XOR no humankind will survive ( simply because humankind’s intentional-ignorance is the actual-enemy, & it’s … unbelievably-immense ).
TL;DR, you aren’t wrong, it’s the world losing its mind, in a perfectly-natural process, in which the vast majority of the world fights-off correct-thinking for sake of ideological-reacting, & the tiny-minority stands-with/fights-for correct-reasoning/objectivity/worldview-evolution because growing-up is a fundamental-need.
The remnant of humankind, should there be any, will live into next-century, fundamentally-changed, & so therefore by nature incapable of being the ignorant-ideological-wingnuts that our-generation is.
hth,
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