/lit/ - Literature

im with >>20920366 >>20920986 >>20920999 >>20921079 this doesnt sound like a real pratchett quote at all. for one thing it isnt funny. maybe a george carlin quote lol. also
>People Who Are Hurting
learn to recognize the verbal tics and tactics of the enemy, and you wont get goaded into silently letting them set the basic premises and terms and frame of the argument

I guess I'm an ex-exconservative now. It feels weird. When I was younger I was into really left wing stuff. Anarcho communism, going to protests, Murray Bookchin, thought I was trans for a few months, anticlericalism. Now... I don't really know who I am politically anymore. The American "left" has gone off-kilter in the last couple of years. Drag kids, open borders, gun confiscation. I didn't sign up for that. The whole movement is liberal to it's core and won't ever make a material difference for the working class. It's depressing really. I'm beginning to see the wisdom of some form of social conservatism, at least, in a non prescriptivist sense. Ala the societies that we see today are the survivors of an evolutionary battle that many previous cultures have succumbed to. The surviving cultures must have some traits that improve their fitness. It is worth trying to understand and emulate fit traits and to discourage unfit traits. Strong families, strong gender roles, economic autarky, a baseline level of militarism or willingness to defend itself, and relatively homogenous ethnic makeup seem like good traits for a sustainable culture. Just some random thoughts I had