Please keep on posting your thoughts. Native English or not, you are doing a great job of explaining certain facets of this issue. I never come here but that I leave a more informed and educated person because of people like you who help me to put together some kind of rationality out of what is happening to our culture and our world. Political Correctness which had it’s genesis in Western Academia is responsible for much of what we suffer..And, to think, our Whitehouse is full of them at the moment! Carry on!
Thank you again.
As a former student, I saw a lot of developments happen from a firsthand perspective.
The universities adopted new types of education, like ‘Gender Studies’. To this day I don’t know what that means, and I never met someone educated in the field who could explain. Something to do with turning men into women and vice versa, I guess.
In the ‘70s and ‘80s, the radical Left entertained some weird hobbies. Like ‘squatting houses’. It went out of its way to explain that it just grabbed back what belonged to it in the first place: decent housing. It claimed that it did the morally right thing: it persisted in telling us lesser folks that it consisted of true social heroes, fighting for a better society.
I got suspicious. And did a bit of calculating on my own. These guys were on social security. They paid no rent, no gas, water, electricity.
I was shocked what I discovered: in a group of 6 squatters, the annual ‘income’ was roughly thrice that of a small family. The squatters did not work; they could afford trips to other parts of the world (which they did). And if anyone criticized them, the said: hey, we’re artists (hard to believe, I know). Well, they did paint the odd picture, I think 2 annually. Horrifically useless stuff, depicting the end of capitalism. Or something.
Parallel to all of this there was the Great Big Mix-Up Of The Sexes. There is one good word for it: mass confusion. No one got any better from it. Many young and impressionable kids did suffer enormously. They developed (IMHO) mental disorders, like depression, panic attacks, even psychotic episodes. A lot of them, guys and girls, got addicted to substances, and are roaming the streets nowadays. Othere barely keep afloat, like elder welfare mothers, with such damaged family situations that I don’t see much of a future for them.
This is what the left, and all that gender confusion and mixing of identities, did.