Marxism.

That’d be my first guess if I didn’t live in a post-communist country myself. None of the people here (apart from a small minority of indoctrinated youths) is at this level of cuckness, and our parents lived in literal communism.

Fiat and fake food. Money don’t work. And the “food” is poison.

You might be on to something about the food. Fiat is everywhere for many decades but good food was always available to Bulgarians until our ascension to the EU in 2007. Now our food is shit and problems started to mount.

+1 The internet is glazing over everything. I actually live in a small town where I have unlimited choices. I can order food online—like grass-fed tallow. Almost everything healthy is available in the app, and they deliver it straight to my door. But I still have the freedom to choose—so I could also order KFC or some other fast food, or just walk to one of the huge supermarkets. We nonsensically have five of them in a town of just 15,000 people. If I go for a walk at night—maybe to a park or just along the road—I enjoy the quiet streets. The chance of getting mugged here is probably lower than your odds of solo-mining a Bitcoin block with a BitAxe. Right in the center of the city, we have one of the earliest and largest urban parks in Europe. Still, I’m starting to notice how people here are becoming influenced by the internet. To be honest, you won’t run into any LGBT “activist types” 🏳️‍🌈 in this city. At most, there are a few gay or lesbian people here, but they’re humble, normal folks—not the loud, over-the-top kind. I work with people even three decades older than me, people who lived through communism, and I often hear the same kind of nonsense from them as I do from my younger peers—wannabe Andrew Tates. Things like “the world is going to hell because men aren’t men anymore” or “the LGBT agenda is taking over,” and so on. But as I said—we live a relatively peaceful life here. Yet thanks to the internet and broken money, people—regardless of age—end up imagining all sorts of things that aren’t even happening around us. Honestly, I’d even bet that in the far West, it’s not as bad with all the gender-pronoun madness and LGBT-related hysteria as it’s portrayed online. It’s just emotional manipulation. Education fixes that.

Propaganda is powerful. Antonio Gramsci's strategy of 'seizing the means of _cultural_ production' has been frighteningly successful here, and it's pushed top-down and bottom-up at the same time.

Mostly agree but I think you misunderstood my point. I live in a country where practically no one cares if you sleep with guys and gals of the same sex, nor if you go to regular therapy. These are non issues and non topics, apart from the occasional online rage from a few “Andrew Tates” about a pride parade once per year. I mean people here are more down to earth and don’t even think about stuff like that at all, they don’t know what these weird celebrations are and if you go to one of them on the street and say “happy pride month” or “happy men’s health month” they’ll take you for a total nutcase and try to avoid any further verbal exchange or eye contact.

Glad to hear this! Bulgaria is a beautiful place. At least your ancestors will end their life in peace. I got you now, interesting that these old disconnected ppls you mentioned, I’m working with, they even don’t know that our currency is not backed by gold and they just yells about LGBt, how America is bad, Russia good and why communism is better then democracy. Ofc they saw it on Facebook. That’s come a question in my mind for you, Is Facebook popular social site for elder citizens in Bulgaria?

Yeah, mostly older folks use Facebook these days.