Thread about our American Cultural Revolution. When everything is just a brand and marches are without a cause and, when movements are really brands, stoked by marketers.

Our American cultural revolution is the elites appropriating language of pop "resistance""egalitarianism" & implementing severe middle class wealth extraction as bludgeon to suppress dissent & sustain disequilibrium, purging whoever might climb outside our Overton window

Our Cultural Revolution isn't intended to improve the distribution of political representation, it is to strip dissenters, that is - whoever might disagree with Max Boot'ian neoliberalism - of political and social representation. It is succeeding

Elites liquidate dissenters influence in politics & society, by ruthless negative stereotyping and funhouse mirroring - that makes the dissenters into threats to democracy, and lifting the elite oppressors into the guardians of democracy. It is a bad, yet sadly real, joke

Virtue-signal your happy go lucky compliance in social media every day or you might be guilty of some, as yet undetermined offense to their Cultural Revolution. Nobody cares what you actually believe, so long as you prove your compliance to those enforcing compliance.

Saul Alinsky said: "History is like a relay race of revolutions; the torch of idealism is carried by one group of revolutionaries until it too becomes an establishment & then the torch is snatched up and carried on the next leg of the race by a new generation of revolutionaries.

"...cycle goes on & on, & along the way the values of humanism & social justice the rebels champion take shape & change & are slowly implanted in the minds of all men even as their advocates falter & succumb to the materialistic decadence of the prevailing status quo."- Alinsky

Alinsky also said... "Who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins – or which is which…”

Alinksy's point was always strife as means to preserve elite power, rather than to supplant it. Our American Cultural revolution requires a suspension of any historical records, no restoration to equilibrium, no learning from past events, and no trust in previous knowledge.

Denial of history, denial of learning, because nothing that came before can be trusted. Institutions upon which society and morality are built, are illegitimate. Myth and history are the same. This is Wakanda, forever.

"Over and over again, the firebrand revolutionary freedom fighter is the first to destroy the rights and even the lives of the next generation of rebels....

"But recognizing this isn't cause for despair. All life is warfare, and it's the continuing fight against the status quo that revitalizes society, stimulates new values and gives man renewed hope of eventual progress.” - Saul Alinsky

Epilog
After you've read the thread, this is like the scenes that appear midway thru the ending credits in a Marvel movie, a snippet of what's to come, another plot line.
These two tweets from Rob Reiner, in our new context...

Epilog to the epilog's epilog.
If you want forgiveness, or forgetfulness, this is the template.
The Harvey Weinstein redirect...