I don't think it's the same as the endless back and forth. Ways of seeing the world are evolving at a much more drastic pace than I think was envisioned, even a decade ago. In the space of just a few years we now have a large chunk of America that is starting to really believe there are 100 genders, the system is still totally racist (even though everyone has the exact same application process for College, School, Exams and Mortgages, in fact affirmative action has tipped that and you know how), even though any person of any race in the USA can follow the exact same pattern of personal choices and achieve the exact same result, even though racist laws have been eliminated and violence against the innocent is not tolerated - ESPECIALLY not under the color of racism, think hate crime laws........and that the most urgent threat facing our military is not being "inclusive". That "inclusion" means excluding Christians, that "kindness" means "approval", and that disapproval means phobia. As Dave Chappelle said so eloquently, in this country, "you can kill a man in walmart and it does nothing bad to your career, but you better not hurt a gay man's feelings".
Wow, that's powerful argument. For all the liberal whining about Chappelle, not a single person has answered that indictment.
(I'm not picking on them - it was just the first of many examples that came to mind of how "out of whack" we have become).
That students at Oberlin university, a place that costs $80,000/yr to attend, who live in a LGBTQ "safe" space, wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper about being "angry, scared and confused" when realizing a straight man had come to fix their radiator last weekend. And many people thought they were perfectly in the right.
Up is down, down is up, right is wrong, wrong is right. Nothing that you see is real, everything you don't see is, and don't believe your eyes.
I've accumulated a fair share of knowledge about delusionary beliefs and the various personality disorders associated with them.
Never imagined that 30% of the nation would exhibit them, but I think we're getting pretty close. Not impossible, as a third of the nation now officially has anxiety or depression "disorder".
We used to watch smuggled videos of people in North Korea. Starving, their uncle dragged out to a prison camp and tortured because of a joke, with zero freedom and virtually nothing to eat...........Standing there enthusiastically in a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, literally weeping in the streets when the Dear Leader is ill.
But are we very far from that? I no longer think we have the mental upper hand quite like we used to when it comes to grasping reality.
I used to think it was more of a sickness. What I now think is the sickness is limited to very few, like most psychological disorders. The more serious turn of events is the delusions suffered by everyone else, where they literally no longer can tell reality from fantasy, and their enablers surround them.