Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics | Robinson's Podcast #109" video.
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@dimomarkov8937 I see. Well, I taught community college, as a sort of public service, for 17 years, and never once encountered radicalized youth. In the US, the races are separate; you will almost never see an integrated wedding, for example, unless the people are all very rich. Classes are separate, and people at different income levels don't know how those above them or below them actually live. In fact, most think more is just more --- and they all want more, so why wouldn't a billionaire? Romanticizing Soviets? Good luck meeting anyone who knows the Red Army defeated Hitler, or that any Soviet did anything of any value whatever ( Exhibit A: Arkhipov, which would really puzzle them, given that only Americans are "true individuals"). There are more people who vaguely believe in Hitler's racial hierarchy than have the least radical proclivities. The English and Germans just somehow seem better, you know --- cooler --- than, say, Slovenians or Poles.
People who don't succeed (and success equals money; my god, truth = money) tend to engage in one form or another of self-flagellation and self-loathing. The latest is cross-sex hormone abuse in older teens who never once before felt like they should have been born the opposite sex. I can't think of anything less radical than risking the ability to be a birth parent someday because you don't fulfill the latest "standard" for masculinity or femininity.
The Internet isn't real.
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