The Right have manipulated post covid bitterness to dismantle the State

The anger that post covid bitterness created economically, culturally and politically has enflamed voters to elect parties who want to destroy and amputate the State rather than build on the common ground between us.

The latest excellent work from the Helen Clark Foundation makes for grim reading when it looks at how social cohesion has imploded because of the unique universal event that was Covid…

• A major new analysis finds Australia out-scores New Zealand on virtually every measure of social cohesion.
• It suggested Kiwis are less happy than Australians, have a lower sense of worth, and are less satisfied with their financial lot.
• The report’s author says the new findings should be a ‘wake-up call’ that New Zealand can’t be complacent over the polarisation seen in the US and Europe

…the stresses and strains of lockdown has taken voters legitimate concerns at how rigged our system of capitalism is and injected it with social media hate algorithm generated culture war resentment

Kaleidoscope of Hate

The unique universal experience of lockdown is causing internal ructions and currents through the political, social, economic and cultural landscape of NZ.

The algorithms of social media Hate has amplified polarization of debate in ways we are barely comprehending.

Into this vortex fault lines are rupturing.

A chunk of white society being asked to curtail their financial agency & freedom to protect Maori & Pacifica who they feel resentment from.

Vulnerable communities angry that their well being is collateral damage for the rich.

A distrust of Authority while being utterly dependent upon them.

Social isolation and a growing sense of dislocation.

Qanon lunatics who are impossible to be reasoned with alongside Woke lynch mobs on never ending cancellation purges.

The poor whose poverty has become survival level subsistence.

Renters locked into debt servitude.

Micro aggression policing trigger thresholds where the quickest to take offence wins in a never ending grim roulette of intersectionist grievance where a cacophony of wounds jockey for social hierarchy.

All have become building blocks towards barriers that divide while cocooning us all into echo chambers.

We have run out of patience with one another.

 

 

Social media proxification – hell is other people’s social media feed – Sartre

Social media algorithms have allowed for a toxicity of debate that is easily manipulated. A symphony of sweaty truths all screaming for attention and no one listening. Woke Identity Politics activists have seized the joy of having no gatekeepers to express how much they hate white men while alt right Incel Nazi’s have seized upon the joy of having no gatekeepers to express how much they hate everyone else.

Millennial woke culture sees macro violence coming from micro aggressions and piously police those micro aggressions with virtue signalling purity mantras.

Alt Right Incel Nazis see white persecution and create some bullshit replacement narrative to justify their powerlessness and feed that resentment online.

Most people are on social media and most people have a woke activist or Qanon fanatic in their social media feed screaming their feverish truths. While these activists certainly think they are speaking truth to power by endlessly calling people out for breaches of woke mantra or fake news anti Trump lies, to everyone else they are simply toxic.

People stop seeing the political party and only see the activist and in the end proxification means the activist becomes the proxy representation of the Party, and seeing as people have negative feelings towards the proxy, they turn from the Party.

Voters aren’t voting on policy, they are voting on who made them feel resentful on social media!

The political is the personal now means what hurts me personally becomes political.

Before social media activists could only face each other off at protests or through letters to the editor or talkback radio. There were constraints of interaction but with social media there are none and it turns out the freedom to insult and dehumanise others is more addictive than nicotine, alcohol and meth combined.

Wokeness has become a puritanical religion with none of the beauty – it’s not so much the personal virtue signal, we are all dicks at times, it’s the weaponization by algorithms that make it so dangerous and damaging.

The danger of identity politics is that it locks people intellectually into only defining the world through their skin colour, genitalia or sexual orientation – it also becomes toxically subjective and tribal where the only solidarity is with other people who share the skin colour or genitalia or sexual orientation- without shared truths and values, the 1% and their 9% enablers continue to divide the rest of us 90%.

The Left has lurched into woke ‘Social Justice’ territory which alienates more than it attracts.

Economic Justice does more than banning Gay Conversion, criminalising speech or gerrymandering the legal system to ensure anyone accused is found guilty, it redistributes wealth and makes direct provision to the cost of every day living. Beneficiaries and working class people care less about pronouns and the correct pronunciation of te Reo than they do about how to pay next weeks rent and power bill!

Pure temple doctrine divides & alienates. Broadchurch universals build solidarity.

I’m not interested in social justice wokedom any more, it is a minefield of competing schisms throwing vitriol at one another.

Twitter outrage is woke righteousness porn for the middle classes. A puritanical razoring where the self elected morality police publicly shame and cancel anyone for not using the language protocols of the conclave.

I am interested in Economic Justice and the immediate welfare of the poorest amongst us while providing immediate life condition upgrades.

After each great pandemic in history there has been an enormous civil disruption. Ours is starting now.

In 2010, the 388 richest individuals owned more wealth than half of the entire human population on Earth

Media proxification is leading to a fascist kaleidoscope of climate crisis entropy triggered by Covid, woke supremacy & ok Karen QAnon echo chambers.

In the end we will scream and beg for a leader who can save us from oursleves.

 

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