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Make Fiction Not Real Again
11 months ago
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I have had this thought nagging me since the 2020s begin.
Since the turn of the decade, I have seen a very strong uptick in the level of persecution against artists. When people draw something that is even slightly offensive to the current gen snowflakes, holy shit. They explode with the most unhinged level of hatred. First, they take to social media with videos and/or memes as they seek to make sure that the whole world knows about who drew the content that wounded their ego. Then, they go to their "friends" and tell them all about that artist so that mobs of other snowflakes begin stalking that artist everywhere they go.
The norm of the 2020s has been established as: "You are what you draw."
Well, maybe we should just apply this "logic" to the rest of society. Everyone who owns a lighter is an arsonist. Everyone who owns a pocket knife is a serial killer. Everyone who give their dogs real bones is a cannibal. Everyone who owns a car is guilty of vehicular manslaughter. Every responsible gun owner is a mass shooter.
Guilty until proven guilty. There is no innocence.
You see? Following this kind of narrative makes the whole world guilty of everything and eventually the dissonance will become so great that it will erupt into a Worldwide Civil War, where people kill each other all over things that were never a truly serious issue to begin with. This is why I push for legislation to be passed, barring cancel culture and policing online interactions, because this is exactly the kind of thing that can happen if it is not dealt with. What does it matter to you what adults who only interact with other adults do? If you hate something that badly, turn around and walk away. Because assaulting everyone in the comments only gives people more reason for legal action to be taken against you.
Art was never a magnet for chaos back then, and I say it's high time it went back to being a place for people to escape reality once again.
Since the turn of the decade, I have seen a very strong uptick in the level of persecution against artists. When people draw something that is even slightly offensive to the current gen snowflakes, holy shit. They explode with the most unhinged level of hatred. First, they take to social media with videos and/or memes as they seek to make sure that the whole world knows about who drew the content that wounded their ego. Then, they go to their "friends" and tell them all about that artist so that mobs of other snowflakes begin stalking that artist everywhere they go.
The norm of the 2020s has been established as: "You are what you draw."
Well, maybe we should just apply this "logic" to the rest of society. Everyone who owns a lighter is an arsonist. Everyone who owns a pocket knife is a serial killer. Everyone who give their dogs real bones is a cannibal. Everyone who owns a car is guilty of vehicular manslaughter. Every responsible gun owner is a mass shooter.
Guilty until proven guilty. There is no innocence.
You see? Following this kind of narrative makes the whole world guilty of everything and eventually the dissonance will become so great that it will erupt into a Worldwide Civil War, where people kill each other all over things that were never a truly serious issue to begin with. This is why I push for legislation to be passed, barring cancel culture and policing online interactions, because this is exactly the kind of thing that can happen if it is not dealt with. What does it matter to you what adults who only interact with other adults do? If you hate something that badly, turn around and walk away. Because assaulting everyone in the comments only gives people more reason for legal action to be taken against you.
Art was never a magnet for chaos back then, and I say it's high time it went back to being a place for people to escape reality once again.
Historic Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKkSv9fwRrI
To sum it up, it's me making an anti-conflict statement and trying desperately to preach unity before absolute hatred claims the minds of the global population.