Why is everything in this modern age so politicized...

Why is everything in this modern age so politicized? Has there ever been a historical equivalent of the tribulations that plague our societies now?

Do you know what a civil war is?

It has something to do with freeing the slaves, right?

which Civil War? American? English, Sri Lankans? Be more specific in you criticisms

White people and (((White people)))

People on the internet say stupid things, and from there it only grows when other stupid people also add their opinion.

everything is always political. the problem of today is that you have big camps of people that share the public space but want radically different things.

theres this cultural warfare method that the left uses where they make EVERYTHING, down to what sort of deodorant you buy, into some retarded cultural battle. Its a way to not give you any rest because they think it will force everyone onto their side, instead of just making everyone hate them.

If you give a shitty disney super hero movie a bad review, you are labelled as a racist now.

>Has there ever been a historical equivalent of the tribulations that plague our societies now?

Dude... Wtf are you doing on a history board? Shit was way, way, way, way, way, way, worse in America just 40 years ago.

Probably the french revolution, everyone had to pick a side either you were with it or against it. Those against it even those neutral who committed an act against the revolution would be hunted down and put to trial (often executed)

States rights.

To own slaves.

>he hasnt had his head cut off by a guillotine yet

Welcome to the memetic singularity, which features exponential cultural change, caused by the cultural hyper-accelerator of the internet. Features of this singularity include pandemics of mind viruses that clickbait the brain into receiving and reproducing them. This has served as a conduit for politics to invade almost every aspect of our lives, which it does because it offers threats to safety and one's fundamental needs, which are prioritized over other messages. The result of this memetic madness is anxiety from having one's psychological buttons pushed all day every day.

What's going on is the rate of cultural change is exceeding the ability of existing social structures to effectively process information, resulting in mass informational chaos, a post-truth society. All that matters is what meme is the most capable of triggering you. The response from existing social structures is always self-preservation, so these social structures need to push ever more extremely to retain control in a chaotic environment - the left and the right both go to looneysville. Consensus reality has broken down almost completely.

The good news is that new social structures will evolve that are more effective at facilitating exponential cultural change than present ones, and it is only a matter of time before they have the upper hand and begin to shift the dominant paradigms. At this point a social singularity will occur where the whole of human society engages in recursive self-improvement. This will result in the "end of history," the final social state of humanity.

You laugh now but remember this post when things in the world begin to improve so quickly that many will think it's divine intervention. Then use that memory to spread this as an alternative interpretation to compete with the religious ones that will be very popular.

>Has there ever been a historical equivalent of the tribulations that plague our societies now?
Jesus Christ user. Take 20 sec to think this trough.

Is this paraphrased from Nick Land or are you getting it from something else

It's a perspective I've developed over 17 years, from when I first read about memes.

We have some of the same DNA. Notice the similarity to the CCRU.

neat thanks

>Has there ever been a historical equivalent of the tribulations that plague our societies now?
Pre Civil War era was even worse. A Congressman beat the shit out of another in the Senate chamber over abolitionism

do you have any book or article or journal or website recommendations for this sort of thing?

>1970s America
>Worse

Are you high?

Read a fucking book bro. Or ask your parents. Do you know how many domestic bombings happened in the 1970's? You've probably never even heard of the Weathermen, have you?

>domestic bombings
>massive protests
>Kent State
>Watergate

Yea, 70's were a breeze.

1970s were the most catastrophic decade since the Great Depression.