I think it’s also one of the original gaslighting techniques. And, it’s something that doesn’t really get brought up nowadays. I wonder why that is. I’ve thought about it a few times in the past month.

Claims and beliefs and ideas need to be amended, throughout human history. But postmodernism, to me, seems to take this empirical truth and runs away with it. It’s like taking advantage of a situation. And when it became institutional thought, practitioners became bullies, and they prosecuted anyone who doesn’t comply. Now, the postmodernist camp and its opposition are irreconcilable. Well, that divorce isn’t definitive, despite how dogmatic some people can be. Outrage, how I see it, does bring people together.

Tensions wouldn’t have ran as high as they did if the postmodernist could have simply enjoyed their alternative facts and not tried to mandate them, while they wouldn’t have been as aggressive as they were had they not been persecuted by modernists. These two minorities circle each other, trading the roles of the victim and the aggressor, while the majority of us either ignore them or feel the gravitational pull of their incessant bickering. My coping mechanism is making the same journal entry about it for a decade.

Though, we should write and think and talk about it. Have said that before too, of course. About 6 years ago, I was recording a song in a studio, and my engineer said, “Don’t write about politics.” I would have to disagree with them.