02-01-2021, 01:44 AM
(01-31-2021, 03:28 PM)nguyenivy Wrote:(10-29-2020, 06:38 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(10-29-2020, 02:05 PM)Camz Wrote: I wonder how the revival of gender roles will affect gay, trans, and non-binary people. I'm really scared for that honestly. If there will be a new wave of cis-heteronormativity I'm really not gonna enjoy this High.
That's the way highs are. You get to conform to the majority and if you don't like it, tough luck. You may have to hang in there until the awakening.
1st-wave Millennial here concerned we may not even be alive by the time the next Awakening arrives. Usually people of our cohort (Hero) don't take part in Awakenings or are just too old to care, right? I wonder if we're the worst cohort in the set as we're way too young to enjoy the 3T, then there's the 4T, then there's the conformist world of the post-4T/1T. This time around our crisis may just be the virus impacts, so no war (we really do not need one anyway now - we have enough bad times from COVID) there for the 'Hero' to shine.
If COVID-19 work-from-home remains, we may see a High full of refinement of home life like in the 1950s where people who could afford it moved to bigger suburban houses. Small apartments won't be in demand if we both work & live at home. Those work if most of life is spent away from home with the apt used as just a bed, closet, & shower.
That would compel people to act more like business owners and less like a proletariat. Good reason exists for concentrating people in offices rather than letting them do clerical work at home. People might pay attention to some lasagna cooked from scratch while going through images of documents. The perfect office is a place of clinical blandness with no distractions. Tiny cubicles with white walls so that the employee can't see what is going on outside that cubicle, but a supervisor can easily look inside?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.