Everyone against everyone

[matrixmann]

What the American idea of individualism spread throughout the world is: People have troubles to find a common base for standing united.

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Re: Ugly Story

[matrixmann]

It came into my mind how far-reaching that is if you compare the style of activism for certain issues here and there. If you look at how activism is here, what kind of attitudes circle around, what kind of mindset is put out, you draw your similarities between it as you can't get past the perception that something had been taken over. Let's say the both best examples: Feminism and LBGT.
Feminism here somehow meanwhile only circles around making you believe "women are always vicims, men are doers" and, if you don't want to join in the choir, then you're sexist and need to be fought dead. At all, you can describe it as a really man-hating culture. It works under the cover of empowerment for women, but in the end it's rather like waging war between the both sides with the firm goal to establish women are the better kind of humans.
If I take a look at that, I'd say this kind of style is something that comes from overseas. Acting like you've got the most liberal position, even against facts from nature, and in the end you propagate an order to mindfuckery. Being the most egoistic that you can be.
LBGT activism didn't take that direction that strongly, but beneath the surface you also find such roots here. At least, they're rather revealed by the media than you get to hear about from regular people.
Their contribution to the topic is always calling the CSD something positive and putting that kind of LBGT people into spotlight which you can say you will most probably only meet in the showbusiness because as a regular worker nobody would and could put up with them. Extravagant guys with exaggerated female behavior or Conchita Wurst like figures.
And that drives you again at something that what catches your attention in the style of activism for this minority overseas.
It doesn't look anymore like an equality movement, it rather looks like things are now on a level of claiming for behaving like a sefish idiot and your surroundings are supposed to shut their mouths about giving you a hint.
In that way you can even understand Russian people not wanting that, but the mistake they make is associating that selfish behavior to the subject itself. They don't distinguish between the selfish behavior that US-culture has in all things and the subject itself which is good talking about and strengthening people which are affected by it.