Cancel

04/07/2024

What some call socially progressive others call cancel culture.

The cancel culture moniker works as follows; first, assume there is a state of “pluralistic ignorance” in the community, i.e. people hold different views and perspectives on any issue.

But, because it is only safe to utter one social media-driven accepted “progressive” view, most dissenters act cowardly as though they are alone in their dissent, i.e. they say and do nothing.

You can see why Australia was perfect for the proliferation of so-called cancel culture: high social media use, care factor zero, thinking capacity negative,  schadenfreude towards the victim, and the “thank Christ it wasn’t me” factor.

To be clear, yes I’m imputing that many young Australians are the sort of people that virtually stop to turn left, need a written invitation to change lanes, and stand 10ft back from the bar even if they’re next in line to be served their craft rubbish.

That is, they’re fucking useless. At some deep subconscious level, understanding this, they collectively adopted progressive (cancel) culture to protect themselves.

Therefore, I can’t see this culture going anywhere, anytime soon.

Oddly enough, the definition of it as cancel culture is itself a form of cancel culture. Categorised as a thing by agreeing conservative dissenters, with the aim of naming, shaming and ultimately cancelling cancel/progressive culture and thereby returning society to the 1950s

I’m not sure that can work? It seems like they’re disappearing up their own arseholes. Best to just ignore the whole thing and refuse to be reality shamed.