When I was a child (born 1955) I could recognize the absurdity of much of the conformity of a 1T -- even "choosing" a cigarette was an act of conformity. Cocktails were heavily pushed, but there seemed to be little imagination. As a child I could recognize such because I was obviously not in the market for tobacco or booze. I was more free to make rational choices, and as someone who got to see Dean Martin mock drunks (the beverage that he was drinking was apple juice) and was of an impressionable age when the Surgeon General exposed the link between smoking and pointless death I could make a rational choice to not smoke.
I saw the last 1T only at its end, when it was collapsing of its inner absurdities, especially on race.
Today the absurdities are on extreme inequality, science versus superstition, and authoritarianism and freedom. Much has gone on (like the Michigan plot and the Capitol Putsch) with further exposures of insidious involvement by people in the supposed Establishment.
I saw the last 1T only at its end, when it was collapsing of its inner absurdities, especially on race.
Today the absurdities are on extreme inequality, science versus superstition, and authoritarianism and freedom. Much has gone on (like the Michigan plot and the Capitol Putsch) with further exposures of insidious involvement by people in the supposed Establishment.
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.