Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Reckoning's avatar

I agree with the slander thesis, but have a couple of additional thoughts:

1) The fact that British MPs have mixed this up with reality shows that they really are out of touch with reality. I think politics is basically a fantasy land at this point.

2) There is basically zero interest, familiarity or sympathy for young white males at leadership levels now. You basically have childless cat ladies and male NPCs with no energy who can’t inspire and likely don’t have sons or familiarity with male society. A couple of generations ago you would have had a lot of male veterans in Parliament, but now you get social worker and NGO types without kids or who just shipped them off to daycare.

3) I see a rising generational conflict in the West and this type of show being part of a war on the young.

Samo Burja had a good quote on Twitter a few days ago about democracy being incompatible with an aging society. Here in Canada we have an election with polls showing greater support for Conservatives the younger you go, despite the fact that young people are more heavily minority. And you have a new PM who is grey-haired radical talking about Canada’s British roots and running nostalgic ads with Mike Meyers. So we have a situation where young people desperately need change while the old just want to squeeze young people to pay their pensions, buy insanely priced houses, go to work, join the military, while getting nothing in return. Something is going to break.

4) Britain is in bad shape materially and is heading to a debt crisis, which may lead to energy and food crises. In fact it seems the entire Western world is heading to a crisis where the elderly want their pensions, investments and house prices inflated, while there’s really nothing to squeeze. I think ethnic conflict could result, but it’s unpredictable and not guaranteed.

Expand full comment
Johnathan Doe's avatar

I've been thinking about this for a while now, and I'm glad somebody actually came out and said it: Britain's on track for a full-scale civil war. Being an American, I feel for our forefathers across the ocean; I honestly hope they find a way to resolve this crisis peacefully, however reality would argue that simply won't be the case. Perhaps "Adolescence" will become Britain's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in that it will be the final straw which will break the camel's back and launch Britain into chaos.

Expand full comment
10 more comments...

No posts