The Narcotic of Unreality
15th April 2021
ZMan is astounded.
There is no getting around the fact that our present is unimaginably weird, relative to our standards of just a generation ago. People like to laugh at what people a century ago imagined was the future, but those past predictions were based on the assumption that crazy people would not take over the country. They feared that left-wing radicals would win and impose communism. That was a legitimate fear, but mentally disturbed men in dresses was not a concern. Why would anyone think such a thing?
What makes it weirder is that we are not living in an age of bliss. We have real problems that need attention. Yet during the transition from Trump to Dementia Joe, supposedly serious people sat around a conference room table wondering how they could recruit a man in a dress to join the administration. No one in the room, presumably, bust out laughing. Some take comfort in believing that they know it is ridiculous, but there is no evidence to suggest this.
If you described modern America to someone in 1960, they would refuse to believe it.
April 15th, 2021 at 13:51
I think you don’t have to go that far back. Nobody in 1970 would believe this. Probably nobody in 1980 or 1990.
There are many older Democrats that refuse to believe that it’s not the same party as the one that elected JFK. JFK lowered taxes, encouraged businesses, supported the military – hell, he was so “conservative” that he would embarrass most of the Republicans in DC today. Compare him to say, Mitt Romney.