90s baby too. I could have written this; it’s exactly how I feel. Of course things are better in childhood, but you could feel a change after 9/11. And I both love and hate the internet, as you say. Without the internet, this great site would exist, our combined talents and autism would not have allowed us to influence anything, not to mention communication with others around the world. However, it has become a poison, one that would become very obvious if we were hit by your EMP.
My theory is those of us who lived before tech, or during the tech transition, would experience withdrawals for a little while and re-adapt to our old ways. Those who grew up with smart phones in hand will suffer the most, what they would do is anyone’s guess, but I would estimate a severe spike in suicides. We are social animals, and that sudden loss for those who never knew another way would be devastating; we’re already seeing it with covid lockdowns. That’s why these days I am really trying to pick back up reading and other material interests and use tech less and less. But it is definitely a struggle.
I’m a former MAGA educator and I agree wholeheartedly. I worked with some genuinely good people, for the record, but I worked with a lot more who were loud and proud communists, gender-fluids, antifa and Black Lives Matter protestors- the list goes on. To be a conservative (or, God forbid, a TRUMPER) was taboo.
One thing I seethed at was one of the gender-fluid people having creepy gender stuff on the windows of its classroom (and the classroom was in a main area; you couldn’t miss it). Comparatively, I kept a small Catholic area by my desk. Don’t get the wrong idea, I didn’t do it in response to the gender stuff- mine was actually first. But if I was as loud and proud, I probably would’ve been written up. That’s the society we live in now.
If there’s something I learned as an educator it’s this: I loved my field, and that’s why I wanted to teach. But these teacher who are corrupters use their field to indoctrinate their students according to their worldview. The communist English teacher once had her kids read some story by a trans hispanic lesbian (I can’t explain how that works), and I found out because we had a few students in common.
I left because of a variety of complicated reasons, but the ones I will talk about is that every stereotype about teachers is true: they teach to the test, they pass kids along because of bureaucracy, they’re high schoolers who never left, they couldn’t do anything else- the list goes on. And I guess I technically implicate myself in that, but I realize I’m not those things.
I’m a young guy, but I was still teaching at the beginning of covid, long enough to be called a hero, then long enough to be considered a villain. I was neither of those things. What I was was “done with this”.
You’re right about the pendulum but not the type of person coming.
We already have wannabes of the kind you mentioned running the government now. What we are going to get is a reactionary, not a revolutionary.
This is going to be a person who is watching the corruption and degeneracy of our society and is going to put a full stop to it. Their morality is going to be ironclad, not lacking. I’m talking taking actions like “our official religion is Christianity/ America is a Christian state”, “LGBTism/ Pride is illegal”, “abortions of any kind are illegal” type of things. They’ve seen the rot and are going smash the “stop and rewind” button.
Now I have a conundrum: don’t watch the Super Bowl or watch the Super Bowl and deliberately ignore their commie rules.... ugh, tough call.
EDIT: never mind, just realized there’s option 3: don’t watch and still deliberately ignore their commie rules.
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.‘“- St. Anthony the Great.
St. Anthony the Great, pray for us as we undertake this noble endeavor. Amen.
Also, I would just like to say the “Trump2024” mentality isn’t a good one at present because it lends legitimacy to Biden- that Trump lost fair and square, which he most certainly did not. We’re playing along with the insane narrative they’re spinning. If it was rigged this time, it will be rigged next time too. We need to watch out for that sort of thing here: This is a never-ending Trump rally, and Trump won.
This whole thing just seems like he’s being a deliberate villain so he is either declared incompetent or impeached and get Kameltoe in as the “savior” of America. I mean, really, who rescinds an EO that lowers medicine costs unless you’re just trying to piss people off?
Fellow historian here. What you’re referring to are all North Africans/Mediterranean/Middle Eastern empires; the most relatable to Africans as we think of would be Egypt, with their Nubian subjects, who were damn good fighters (and to repay them for their loyalty, the current Egyptians flooded them out with a dam, but the ancient Egyptians and current Arabic Egyptians aren’t quite the same).
Further down in west Africa, the actual beginning of Sub-Saharan Africa, you had the Songhai, Mali, and Ghana Empires, the most famous ruler of these was Mansa Musa of Mali, to this day considered the richest person in all of human history. A king so rich from the gold/salt trade that, on the Hajj to Mecca (he was Muslim), he caused near hyper-inflation from the money he threw to passersby. Imagine that for a second: his pocket change could cause hyperinflation, not to mention the mosques he built along the way. Further down the Horn of Africa (in the east) you have my favorite of the sub-Saharan African civilizations: Ethiopia. A land filled with mystery and so ancient that their monarchs claimed descent from King Solomon himself and the Queen of Sheba (the last being Haile Selassie, who was fantastic and was murdered by the Derg Communists who ruined the country and made it the way it is today). They also claim to have the Ark of the Covenant; protected in St. Mary of Zion Church. the priests there are the keepers, and are said to go blind from staring at the Ark. Now my knowledge of middle-lower Africa is limited (I specialize in European history), but who could forget the Zulus and Shaka Zulu, a tribal people who were possibly the only “primitives” that could make the British shiver? (And if you haven’t seen it, watch “Zulu- excellent movie) There is SO much African history, true African history, that BLM and the like cover up when, in reality, it should be a focus- look at all those cool stories! But rather than be proud of their heritage from all parts, they focus on being victims. And, for the record, West African leaders sold their people into slavery in return for guns and other goods; the descendants of those leaders still exist today. It pisses me off.
She’s done with funding Planned Parenthood?