Our Era of Outrage

Sunday, December 13th, 2015

Even the New York Times accepts that South Park perfectly captures our era of outrage:

Now, it was as if our culture had been shining an Eric Cartman-shaped Bat-signal and “South Park” answered. You could see the news from college campuses — safe spaces, trigger warnings — and conclude that America was more radically leftist than ever. You could read a dispatch from the Republican primary — border walls, refugee panic — and conclude that it was more reactionary than ever. The country is deeply polarized, and between two poles is precisely where the quasi-libertarian “South Park” most likes to swing.

Comments

  1. Alrenous says:

    “More reactionary than ever.”

    You heard it here first: Trump is more reactionary than antebellum slavery.

  2. Bomag says:

    Politics is always at risk of becoming a holier-than-thou death spiral. Expect one side or the other to soon embrace ritualized human sacrifice a la the Mayans.

  3. LL says:

    The usual manipulation we can expect from New York Times.
    30 years ago that Republican primaries would be okay in the Democratic party.

    The college campus is new road.

  4. Dave says:

    Bomag, traditional authority was based on property-owning male heads of households, and what such men want is a government that leaves them alone. Hence there is no such thing as a right singularity/holiness spiral.

    In the 20th century, “right-wing” came to mean either “socialism for our people, slavery for everyone else” or “slightly less socialism than the left wing wants”. Holiness spiraling is always toward left-wing socialism, though anyone who tried to out-holy Hitler, Stalin, or Khomeni was tortured into confessing his error, then executed.

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