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There’s no point addressing The Current Thing. Or even clarifying what Current Thing this was made in response to. It could be one of a dozen different things that’ve happened in the last month.

Yes, it’s bad. I’m not saying this to say TCT (The Current Thing) isn’t bad. The people complaining about it have valid criticisms. However, it is milked. Endlessly, impossibly milked. The smallest and most irrelevant things are given hundreds of thousands 20 minutes of coverage on YouTube when they are little more than a footnote. And these videos have hundreds of thousands, or millions of views, not because people might actually be saying something new or interesting, but because people are consensus seeking.

The absurd level of milking reminds me of a bad South Park episode. Except instead of being over in 20 minutes, it populates the entirety of the online world, and it is impossible to avoid. Blacklist terms, words, users, it doesn’t matter. There is always a dozen of TCT and they are always cycling. The only real answer to it is to log off, but that’s another matter entirely.

This entire thing is overcompensation, of course. Anyone who thinks we didn’t lose the culture war is unable to recognise what winning or losing looks like. The war was lost around gamergate era when the only people standing up to this retarded nonsense were shitposters with suited animal avatars on youtube. They went on to become grifters, paedophiles, and drug addicts, and their opponents went on to make 7 figure salaries telling people that they can't have oat milk in the fridge and writing policy that will take 50 years to undo.

It is an inarguable fact that we lost the culture war. The interest in TCT is not related to any interest in actual change, but in overcompensation for a lost war in which most were too young to fight and faced the negative consequences of. Yet, the people they are idolising, who is telling them why TCT is bad, are not veterans. They didn’t fight.

But that’s what we’re still doing for some reason. Now the people making the videos of why TCT is bad are making 7 figures, but neither they or their viewers have gathered the idea that making or watching videos on the internet is why things got this bad in the first place. Consumption, funnily enough, isn’t proactive, and the videos being made are catered to maximise consumption. The people engaging with this content are not involved in society or culture outside of being critics of it from the safety of their home. They are waiting to be handed a script with their video editing software open (haha, no, they get someone else to do that) waiting for the next point of outrage to criticise.

These are not the people you should be listening to for cultural direction. They are announcers at the coliseum. There is no wisdom in their words, only observation.

I don’t have an answer to this. I don’t think burning the treaty of Versailles is going to work out long term. My suggestion is to find a mentor, a real-life mentor, if not that then the wisest person you know. Someone real, who exists in flesh and blood, who doesn’t have an ulterior motive. And hopefully you can mentor someone else when the time comes, but for that you need to be outside in the world.

Good luck.