All of these national level gyrations have served to get folk ‘woked up’ to just how fragile our society is. Our once shared perception of higher societal ideals such as liberty, freedom, self sufficiency, and personal independence have been scrapped. They have been replaced by other lofty ideals such as ‘social justice’ and ‘equality’. These are much more powerful terms and they can be wielded (unlike liberty/freedom) by tyrants large and small to satisfy their personal ambitions and quests for power.
What good comes from gaining a fortune from developing software for tweets and sharing timelines if you cannot use that fortune for shaping a more ‘just and equitable’ world. When Jack kicks the President of the United States off of his platform and threatens to do the same to half of the nation, with impunity, we’ve got a problem. When Jeff de-platforms a new and struggling social media firm that allows speech that he disagrees with without consequence, we are all fucked. There is not a politician anywhere on the left side of the spectrum that is not leveraging ‘social justice and equality’ into a term of office that makes them more equal.
On the other end of the spectrum, the causes of social justice and equality give purpose to lives that otherwise really have no meaning. What the hell do all of the young folk living in an urban environment dream of accomplishing? They can easily attach themselves to ‘the cause’ because it’s about the only game in town. Their self worth is wrapped up in their level of commitment and sacrifice to assist the ‘downtrodden’. That boys and girls is why all those BLM marches are filled with white faces.
All of these ills are visited upon a people who’s lives have grown far to soft and, paradoxically, who’s lives are relegated to the stone and streets of an inner city. Were these folks to lose power and water for a few weeks, that entire social justice blather would immediately dissipate.