Lots of people also threatened to move to Canada if Trump was elected President. How many of them actually chose to do so?
I don’t think this is the right analogy. Listening to more moderate and right-leaning folk, one gets the impression that viewership of shows and movie franchises that are going woke has been dropping like a rock. Like apparently there was an analysis of when people turned off the Captain America streaming show on Disney+ (I forget its name — the one where Falcon becomes the new Captain), and the moment it plunged was the scene where police were harassing Falcon due to racial profiling.
Maybe the most befuddling part of the culture wars is the way, on every front, soldiers on both sides muddle the facts. It’s hard for me to tell what’s even true. Daniel Schmachtenberger describes this as “polluting the information commons”. There’s a Molochian dynamic where the facts of the matter are part of what’s being fought over.
That’s why I’ve been looking at places that have a profit incentive that are also catering specifically to wokism, noticing I don’t see a corresponding shift in the other direction at the same scale, and kind of scratching my head. Wokism doesn’t look as obviously profitable a thing to align with as their behavior seems. Even if it is, that seems like it’d be hard to determine.
The possibility that it’s actually more like legally imposed internal friction makes some good sense. I doubt that’s the full picture but it’s a plausible major component.
I believe you where I did not before, since I trust explicit statement from you in particular quite a bit. Thank you for the clarification; I can participate on that level. In response, I’ve removed all my heavy downvotes that had been motivated by detected agency.
Thank you, this was helpful.
I don’t think this is the right analogy. Listening to more moderate and right-leaning folk, one gets the impression that viewership of shows and movie franchises that are going woke has been dropping like a rock. Like apparently there was an analysis of when people turned off the Captain America streaming show on Disney+ (I forget its name — the one where Falcon becomes the new Captain), and the moment it plunged was the scene where police were harassing Falcon due to racial profiling.
Maybe the most befuddling part of the culture wars is the way, on every front, soldiers on both sides muddle the facts. It’s hard for me to tell what’s even true. Daniel Schmachtenberger describes this as “polluting the information commons”. There’s a Molochian dynamic where the facts of the matter are part of what’s being fought over.
That’s why I’ve been looking at places that have a profit incentive that are also catering specifically to wokism, noticing I don’t see a corresponding shift in the other direction at the same scale, and kind of scratching my head. Wokism doesn’t look as obviously profitable a thing to align with as their behavior seems. Even if it is, that seems like it’d be hard to determine.
The possibility that it’s actually more like legally imposed internal friction makes some good sense. I doubt that’s the full picture but it’s a plausible major component.
In what way do you intend to intervene on this knowledge?
I don’t have such an intention. I’m just trying to understand how the world works in this spot.
I believe you where I did not before, since I trust explicit statement from you in particular quite a bit. Thank you for the clarification; I can participate on that level. In response, I’ve removed all my heavy downvotes that had been motivated by detected agency.