I am a Gen Xer. Recently I was sitting, drinking my coffee and thinking, and I said to myself: 'My whole life, I believed lies and wasted my time telling them to others'. I was so disgusted, wishing my life away doing the: 'If only I had known better' routine. I am not one of those high minded, arrogant Libertarians who ALWAYS knew better, know better now and always will know better. I now have the experience of my intellectual failures to draw upon for future wisdom. I will never get bogged down in horseshit arguments, questioning what normal behavior is, ever again. The standards for normal behavior, normal morals and normal customs existed prior to the Nuremberg Trial Regime. Anyone who does not believe in what should be normal is just a waste of my time and I will not expend energy on their friendship.
Being a not very normal person myself, and seeing the value in some abnormality, man were those arguments seductive when I was younger.
Only as I'm getting older and worrying about the future do I realize: a baseline expectation of normalcy is the foundation of everything. What abnormality is tolerated should be contained and restricted to appropriate time and place, and then kept close watch over, because "anything goes" is clearly not a workable plan. Not only does it lead to the foundations that even us weirdos depend on being eroded over time, and not only does it often mutate into something intolerable if allowed to flourish unchecked, but normalizing the abnormal also undermines the value that tolerating it can sometimes create.
I think many people are waking up to this and acting accordingly. Until a small cadre of elites rises up to organize these people, however, the best that can be done is to make yourself bulletproof. Get out of cities, find employment that can’t be canceled on the whims of DEI shit and find your tribe. All things we should be doing regardless of who has the power.
I think, given who the enemies are, the first two questions are much more difficult to answer than they should be.
Career choice should be simple, at least in framing: "am I good at this, does it make enough money to support me, and is it likely to continue to be in demand long-term". But the enemy infests most careers that people could answer "yes, yes and yes" to, because they know the value of those jobs and it makes them a strong source of power.
Similarly "where is a safe place to raise my family" should be about things like crime statistics, local economy, and environment. But now we have to worry about state and national politics, and what regions are in the crosshairs for infiltration, more than the fundamentals, because infestation will change those fundamentals in the time it takes your kids to grow up.
So knowing who the enemy is and what their goals and methods are is critical to answering the most basic questions about your long term plans. If you can't get that or can't accept it, you will get every other question wrong.
I am a Gen Xer. Recently I was sitting, drinking my coffee and thinking, and I said to myself: 'My whole life, I believed lies and wasted my time telling them to others'. I was so disgusted, wishing my life away doing the: 'If only I had known better' routine. I am not one of those high minded, arrogant Libertarians who ALWAYS knew better, know better now and always will know better. I now have the experience of my intellectual failures to draw upon for future wisdom. I will never get bogged down in horseshit arguments, questioning what normal behavior is, ever again. The standards for normal behavior, normal morals and normal customs existed prior to the Nuremberg Trial Regime. Anyone who does not believe in what should be normal is just a waste of my time and I will not expend energy on their friendship.
Being a not very normal person myself, and seeing the value in some abnormality, man were those arguments seductive when I was younger.
Only as I'm getting older and worrying about the future do I realize: a baseline expectation of normalcy is the foundation of everything. What abnormality is tolerated should be contained and restricted to appropriate time and place, and then kept close watch over, because "anything goes" is clearly not a workable plan. Not only does it lead to the foundations that even us weirdos depend on being eroded over time, and not only does it often mutate into something intolerable if allowed to flourish unchecked, but normalizing the abnormal also undermines the value that tolerating it can sometimes create.
I think many people are waking up to this and acting accordingly. Until a small cadre of elites rises up to organize these people, however, the best that can be done is to make yourself bulletproof. Get out of cities, find employment that can’t be canceled on the whims of DEI shit and find your tribe. All things we should be doing regardless of who has the power.
Preach.
I think, given who the enemies are, the first two questions are much more difficult to answer than they should be.
Career choice should be simple, at least in framing: "am I good at this, does it make enough money to support me, and is it likely to continue to be in demand long-term". But the enemy infests most careers that people could answer "yes, yes and yes" to, because they know the value of those jobs and it makes them a strong source of power.
Similarly "where is a safe place to raise my family" should be about things like crime statistics, local economy, and environment. But now we have to worry about state and national politics, and what regions are in the crosshairs for infiltration, more than the fundamentals, because infestation will change those fundamentals in the time it takes your kids to grow up.
So knowing who the enemy is and what their goals and methods are is critical to answering the most basic questions about your long term plans. If you can't get that or can't accept it, you will get every other question wrong.