I Don't Care

[Rev. Rye]

Really, it’s not too surprising, given that people seem to have less of a reason to give a shit about the norms of the larger culture now than at any other point in history. Social media has made it amazingly easy to find people with your frustrations (or anyone’s, really) so you can radicalize each other with terrifying ease, and, eventually, when you go far enough that the larger society starts to criticize you for it, it becomes easier and easier each time to just dismiss it as “Haters Gonna Hate.” The way I see it, it’s more or less the case for damn near any ideology, whether it’s people whose jackasstic thought processes lead to them embracing bigotry, or those people who become so fixated on fighting it (usually using the same emotional appeals that their opponents reject wholesale, hoping it somehow works this time) that they lash out against the slightest micro aggression. To be fair, one side has objectively done a lot more damage, but the fact is unavoidable that both sides’ fighting only feeds each other’s rage and the cultural landscape turns into a massive ouroborous of enmity, and nothing positive ends up getting done.