gamers should get TWO walls
Well yeah. They’re men who have no place in a demasculinized society. Used to be, society would find a purpose for these men and set them on their path. With a matchmaker if necessary. Now? They’ve got nothing. They’ve figured out that humans aren’t meant to live this way, and are really distressed and freaked out about it. These men used to be silent, but now we can hear them. And boy, we sure don’t like what they have to say. Remember back when liberals thought that giving everyone in the world a voice and letting them talk together was going to fix every problem and would be the best thing ever? 20 years ago none of these people would have talked to more than a thousand people in their lives.
I’m betting on AI. Before long it will be able to detect them from social clues and vocabulary patterns and we’ll be able to silence them again. The end of internet anonymity would be a big step forward, too. China requires real-name registration to use any social network. Upset the users, and you get banned and can not return.
But their energy would have been redirected towards work and a family, and nobody would ever hear from them. Sure they’d be getting shat on, weak men are treated brutally by other men. The point is that they would not be loose to harm the rest of society. They could have all the intrusive thoughts they wanted about teenage girls and we wouldn’t have to hear it. Now they’re screaming 24/7 and their voice echoes around the world.
The energy that would be redirected towards the family in destructive ways. Their imagined golden age, the 50s, were replete with guys with essentially their same attitudes who would come home from work as an accountant at the screen door factory, drink a bunch of liquor and then do horrifying shit to their wives and kids. A lot of the core of the incel complaint seems to be that conditions no longer let them live the same way. It’s true we didn’t hear from those guys back then, but we also didn’t hear from their victims
I don’t think this exact toxic belief system existed 20 years ago. It has been built piece by piece by successive generations of increasingly unhinged alienated weirdos.
If these people had ended up in a another internet community with a different culture they might still be alienated but not …this.
It absolutely existed 20 years ago, and not much about it has actually changed since then ideologically or even stylistically, but it was mainly confined to UseNet, which the vast majority of internet users could safely ignore (or could not figure out how to access) and which mainstream media almost never covered.
