Thoughts on the Current Discontents
11th June 2021
Severian has a few.
Contrast this to the Current Year, where, much like breakfast food, what seems to be a bewildering variety of lunacy can be boiled down to just a few basic types. “Wokeness” is a madlib with just two variables: ____ is either racist or sexist, pick one. (I suppose you can combine them, but you’ll notice that doesn’t happen nearly as often as you’d predict, because the blacks hate the gays and the feminists hate everyone, so going full retard ends up getting you in a lot of trouble with your coreligionists).
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If you still think you can design a historical system, well, have you ever met a shrink’s kid? How about a minister’s daughter, or the son of a preacher man? Those folks think they know exactlyhow to raise kids, get it?