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Son, this is kiwi farms. Not AT&T
"Sir this is a Wendy's drivth"--oof, there's a saying I can't use in public anymore....
Not to be overdramatic but its clear we're witnessing the rise of a new religion. I'm no neckbeard atheist or even antiChristian but the closest historical parallel that comes to mind is the takeover of the Christians from the pagans in the Roman Empire. SocJustism is kinda like the Left's Christianity/Religion 2.0. It has, faith, sin, original sin, good vs evil, penance, a cult of the havenots vs the haves, and most importantly a mandate to crusade for the salvation of yourself and others. Oh and lets not forget a very uneasy relationship with sex in some quarters.
In some ways it outchristianizes Christianity by modernizing and simplifying religion down to emphasize a few of its most effective elements. The display of virtue, the oppressor/oppressed narrative, and missionary angle. This really speaks to the homebound socialite, or office drone,or Wendy's fry cook of today that they can escape their humdrum existence and become a paladin slaying the White Supremacist dragon and rescuing the poor black/LGBT/animal/planet in distress. And of course there is the general harnessing of the power of the discontented outerclasses which has been a powerful tool throughout history.
Like the battle between Christians and pagans, its more a social than a traditional war. SocJustites started out as a very insignificant offshoot of Communists, who can be considered an earlier stage of SocJustism, limited by its focus on economics.
It has gradually gained more and more power by offering a more personal more activist and relevant experience than staid traditional religions. And then the claws come out once it gains enough power to drop the philosophy of kumbaya and tolerance. Tolerance turns to dominance as society is gradually oriented to an Age where every element of existence will revolve around said Religion.
Indeed. I saw some crowd "repeat after me" stuff taking an oath to BLM on Regg's stream in Minneapolis that was very religious in nature.
Like the Christians in Pagan Rome, SJW/BLMism has gone from a joke to something you can be fired for speaking out against. It's not the state religion yet and it's still technically legal to mock and argue against, but it is pervading every strata of society and growing in power. People are afraid to not support it, and it is dividing families.
The pulling down of the statues reminds me of the destruction/conversion of temples, and the debate over the removal of the Altar of Victory in the Roman Senate House. I always said Trump could be the modern Julian the Apostate, who tried to turn back the tide but had all his policies immediately and forever overturned once gone.
The conversion of the Empire from a pagan/multireligous state with freedom of thought to one with a mandatory monoreligion had huge consequences for Roman society. Eventually if you didn't submit, your property and life was forfeit. It caused some rich and powerful people to drop out of society and pledge their lives, money, and property to the church which didn't help as civilzation was unravelling under a barbarian onslaught. It saw the Romans in the West and East waste time at best, riot at worst, over religious debates on minutia regarding the nature of Christ--all while their civilization was collapsing. "Oh, the Goths are sacking cities in the interior? Let's ignore that and have a synod on whether Christ was part divine or all human before or after he mounted the cross!"
The Church also grew massively in power, becoming a separate but equal power structure alongside the civilian govt. It held more power than the civilian govt in some localities, and continued to exist when the civil govt failed or was replaced by outside Germanic govt.
It took centuries for Christians to go from a weird joke cult to somewhat acceptable, to mainstream, to total domination at swordpoint. But in our mass media tech culture this can be accelerated. And like the Romans, we have other crises right now--plague, pending economic collapse, and mass migration.
BRB, going to bury a coin hoard in the garden.
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