We're Fighting the Wrong Dystopia
This is a very good piece. The writer makes many points that I've held from a long time.
> The conservative husbands of this country are wearing fake tits but yet we’re still paranoid about Gilead in *The Handmaid’s Tale*. Six seasons of the show** and what we’ve learned is that the American cultural imagination can only picture oppression when it comes wearing a bonnet and Sydney Sweeney’s bad acting in it.
> *Handmaid’s Tale* is a dystopia of coherence: the villain believes something, wears robes, follows hierarchy, holds a clipboard you can argue with, quotes scripture you can rebut. Evil has a structure and a recognizable shape. This is, medically speaking, cope. Comfort food for people who need their oppression narratively satisfying.
> But the actual enemy we’re fighting right now requires no belief at all and no ideology you can argue against. We are fighting the void — a system organized around nothing except continuation, where meaning arrives in fragments that never add up, where atrocity and entertainment share the same feed with equal weight, where you can watch genocide between ads for probiotics and experience both as equally valid content.
> There’s no villain to argue with because there’s no argument being made. Just the endless production of engagement that goes nowhere. This is the threat liberalism cannot name because naming it would implicate everything they’ve built.
We're Fighting the Wrong Dystopia
Or when will it finally clock to the average lib that the Great Opponent isn't Reagan-era Christian conservatism but the amoral self-indulgent hype...
Stacker News
We're Fighting the Wrong Dystopia \ stacker news
This is a very good piece. The writer makes many points that I've held from a long time. The conservative husbands of this country are wearing fake...