The gen z youth is so desperate for acceptance that authoritarianism seems good because it brings everyone together for a common cause!! Group fascist hugs!
The only way we could have had “it takes a village” with them would have been to normalize a secular version of it, but America is actively fighting against that, so now what?
Religion is team sports, it turns “it takes a village” into “our village vs your village” and it also involves sweeping a lot under the table, too. Recently, a catholic home for women was exposed for having thrown babies into some death pit, like oh yeah, catholics are all anti-abortion now?! Right, as long as they aren’t the ones doing it.
I think there was a lot of illusions because of the way religion swept these problems up, I think humanity is struggling to reach another level of consciousness right now. The theme has been ongoing – we can’t seem to ever get over ourselves being the center of the universe, and take religion (macro-ego) out of it, whether its “christian science” or my new favorite, “muslim socialist democrat.” Time and time again, we’re told that we should just ignore contradicting details and focus on the sum of the parts; focus on the end goal. I should ignore that people are walking contradictions, as long as they have good intentions in the moment, right?
The problem with that, is how quickly it falls to pieces once the current topic changes. It’s easy to stay consistent on one thing, but if everything surrounding that thing is a walking contradiction, at what point does the judgement fail? If the core is rotten, why should I believe it’s going to keep laying those golden eggs? It’s more like, you’ve proven your broken clock theory, now prove it’s anything more than that.
And then it falls short. We can’t decide whether we hate DEI, or love religious freedom, when both are just distractions. Time and time again, it just turns into this holier-than-thou shit, from both sides really. Yes, because, being “woke”, takes many forms, and most of them look like a lapse of judgement during a breath of victory. Overly focusing on DEI and pretending we can just make everyone accept each other is bullshit, when you have people that want, on the flipside, the “freedom to hate.” Because let’s be real, no one gives a fuck what you do with religion in your spare time, the only religious freedoms people have ever truly wanted, amount to the freedom to impose their shitty beliefs onto the world around them. Look what’s happening as we speak.
The “religious science solutions” mentality is going to hold us back for the next century….millennia…at this rate. It’s not just the current political situation that’s got me on this tangent, either, it’s also seeing how easily gen z came back to religion due to gen x parents. Gen x was kinda morally trashy, so i guess the guilt was there, but ultimately we never built a better community, the internet if anything, helped people grow apart, by allowing everything to become an extreme niche, there’s no longer common ground, people continue to divide into elitist groups, and what better to unite those with a holier-than-thou attiude, religion.
Religion is macro-ego. It’s all the things “you just know”, and it knows them, without proof, even, and it doesn’t need it, cause who said so? The self-referential book! Yes, of course. Ego.
It’s 2025, psych warfare 101, gaslight or be gaslit, and if you’re empathetic for the wrong cause, demonize empathy. Even better, let the church appropriate that empathy for you. Let them worry about all the guilt, why should anyone ever be self accountable, or feel anything, really? Blame immigrants, or something…duh!