I gotta stop listening for the night when he's in the middle of discussing the manifesto, and he's totally misunderstanding one of Ted's points. Ted says we can do whatever we like when it comes to things that the system has decided is unimportant (what religion you are, who you have sex with ect), while important things are increasingly regulated. Wendi goes off on a tangent that he actually cares a lot about his wife and religion and people care abou tthese things a lot, which is just totally missing Ted's point that it's the system at large that deems them unimportant, not the individual. He even mentions that but it doesn't matter. We can clearly see in the years since the manifesto was published with fag marriage, the collapse of sexual moors, the slow motion collapse of christianity that the system doesn't have an interest in these things, or has an interest in atomizing and fostering extreme individualism when it comes to them. Whats becoming more regulated? Cars for one, the main mode of transportation for like 90% of americans. Compared to 1995 we've got far more restrictions on what you can drive and how they're built, and they're trying to implement even more restrictions all the time. Hell, they want to ban gas cars entirely in some places. Freedom of speech is being curtailed in places where you can actually reach people, because stepping outside your door and yelling is unimportant, what's important are places like xitter and being able to have a presence on the Internet at large *cough cough* and we cant forget the triple cluster fuck of immigration, housing, and the finances of the nation that the average man has 0 say in.
This is wendi's first big disagreement with Ted and I feel it's pretty ignorant.
