One of the most tiring things about All This is having to patiently explain to people over and over about all the red-state science hubs that are getting slammed and how their coastal JD Vance style bigotry isn't helping.
There's a lot of horror in this piece, and yet I kept thinking about the text from which you drew so much thought as a "decorative prop " in a commercial property.
"Mosts people are just too brutely stupid to realize they’re no different from the victim standing right next to them—they literally can’t imagine that the same thing might ever happen to them. They even see it as a windfall, a win for them in a zero-sum game, delightedly guzzling the blood from their neighbor’s throats—applauding their layoffs, cheering their deportation, sniggering at their being made to use the “right” bathroom or piously approving their being made to carry their own fathers’ babies to term—not yet apprehending that they’re next." I don't like to think of my fellow citizens as stupid, but I'm seeing this in action already. When it does visit them, inevitably, you can see them work through the stages of grief in real time - stopping at acceptance, and never moving past it to understanding or self-awareness. They just resign themselves to fate and accept it as yet another one of life's kicks in the teeth.
I think the "non-overlapping informational universes" is absolutely spot on. I've found with Twitter that the influx of right-wing positions has radically affected how I see the world. Immigration is more of an issue, and the corruption and institutional takeover of our government by leftists seems real. I think you can live in one world or the other, and there's no understanding one world when you have feet planted in the other. It's like Amy Adams trying to understand the alien language in Arrival.
You say that "If they knew what we know, and understood what we do, yet still voted as they do, they would indeed have to be moral imbeciles or monsters", but the anti-Trumpers want it both ways. They say that the right is stupid, that it doesn't read, that it's incapable of empathy or base morality, and then it accuses them of being deplorable, of making evil choices based on exactly the same upbringing, information sources and belief systems of other people.
Rather silly to bring up the first they came foe poem when they came for the jews on october 7 and the leftists cheered and cheered and spread blood libel.
If they do experience anagnorisis, they pretend it never happened or that they didn’t support it, like W.’s voters and Iraq war hawks after 2008.
One of the most tiring things about All This is having to patiently explain to people over and over about all the red-state science hubs that are getting slammed and how their coastal JD Vance style bigotry isn't helping.
There's a lot of horror in this piece, and yet I kept thinking about the text from which you drew so much thought as a "decorative prop " in a commercial property.
Pumping Anus is a band name waiting for a band!
"Mosts people are just too brutely stupid to realize they’re no different from the victim standing right next to them—they literally can’t imagine that the same thing might ever happen to them. They even see it as a windfall, a win for them in a zero-sum game, delightedly guzzling the blood from their neighbor’s throats—applauding their layoffs, cheering their deportation, sniggering at their being made to use the “right” bathroom or piously approving their being made to carry their own fathers’ babies to term—not yet apprehending that they’re next." I don't like to think of my fellow citizens as stupid, but I'm seeing this in action already. When it does visit them, inevitably, you can see them work through the stages of grief in real time - stopping at acceptance, and never moving past it to understanding or self-awareness. They just resign themselves to fate and accept it as yet another one of life's kicks in the teeth.
I think the "non-overlapping informational universes" is absolutely spot on. I've found with Twitter that the influx of right-wing positions has radically affected how I see the world. Immigration is more of an issue, and the corruption and institutional takeover of our government by leftists seems real. I think you can live in one world or the other, and there's no understanding one world when you have feet planted in the other. It's like Amy Adams trying to understand the alien language in Arrival.
You say that "If they knew what we know, and understood what we do, yet still voted as they do, they would indeed have to be moral imbeciles or monsters", but the anti-Trumpers want it both ways. They say that the right is stupid, that it doesn't read, that it's incapable of empathy or base morality, and then it accuses them of being deplorable, of making evil choices based on exactly the same upbringing, information sources and belief systems of other people.
Rather silly to bring up the first they came foe poem when they came for the jews on october 7 and the leftists cheered and cheered and spread blood libel.
https://open.substack.com/pub/marlowe1/p/how-dare-you-even-think-these-things?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=sllf3
All the leftists I know or read were horrified by October 7.
Amazing! Best thing written regarding the terrible thing happening. Thank you for this piece.
The Terrible Thing Happening should be how we all refer to it from now on, like the Irish do with "the troubles"
I love that memoir! Thanks for writing this, well done.
And the "hella apt title" award goes to...