spottybrowncow wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 9:23 pm
Mostly I see it in terms of the Red / Blue divide much debated during the unravelling. The Blue values include curing Covid, fighting structural racism, respecting the environment and fixing the infrastructure. The Red are mostly the opposite. Let people die of Covid, oppress minorities, exploit the environment, and let the bridges fall. There are, of course, other issues, but those will do for now.
The old values generally do not address the problems experienced in the crisis. The people see the problems as real. Thus, the crisis generally shifts the culture to the new values.
As soon as Covid is "cured," the next virus will come. Are we going to let our economy be permanently crippled by the inevitable onslaught of new bioweapons?
There is no such thing as structural racism; Thomas Sowell, the smartest back man in the world, says so. Get your head out of your utterly useless ass and smell the coffee.
What environmental problems there are will be solved by innovation in the capitalistic system, or not at all.
The infrastructure will be fixed as those who produce find it necessary. Not before, not by anyone, least of all by a bunch of central planner socialists.
"The people," the real working people, are still too busy trying to keep the world running and be productive for their families to spend a lot of effort countering black lives matter rallies and other socialist tripe. Eventually, when the socialists get too in their face, the normal majority will wake up, and it will not be pretty. But it will be over.
Maybe as early as 2022.