Culture Crush: Episode 171, May 12, 2024

Disaffected

Pick any name for the animating spirit of our modern world. Satanic, narcissistic, Cluster B, authoritarian, communist, marxist. Whatever names we pick, we're describing the same animus. The spirit possessing us wants only destruction. It cannot create or conserve. It hates creation and conservation.

Tonight we're going to see women in their 80s trying to destroy precious world artifacts. We'll see college students destroy their own libraries. We'll watch teachers destroy the innocence of their students.

This new commercial from Apple tells you everything you need to know about the modern era. The animus hates you, and it wants to destroy everything you've ever loved.
When I woke up to Cluster B and put my abusive mother out of my life, I quickly saw that the world I was living in was just a scaled up version of the pathological liar's prison where I grew up. You're living there, too. Welcome to Disaffected.

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