Our society is not inclusive, it is a cultural blender. The differences that matter, such as in thinking, living together, embodying, relating to the world, are totally erased, and only trivial differences are allowed to exist. In reality, society is "inclusive" by utterly homogenizing any real difference between people, and when that doesn't work, coerce them to work for it.
For instance, has the world steered towards feminine values, such as kindness, embodiment, playful humor, 10 amongst many others, with the rise of "feminism"? No, instead women are encouraged to work in soul-crushing and body-numbing office jobs. Companies still ruthlessly optimize for profits. Warfare is still the norm in the modern world. People are still dissociated and numb, if not more. Institutions are still as rigid and disembodied from material reality. But because the number of people working in men-dominated field goes up, then clearly the world is getting better right?
Let's ignore that women might have perfectly valid reasons for not wanting to get into those men-dominated fields, such as the alienating experience of sheer disembodiment required to work 8,9 or 10 hours a day where your attention is completely sucked in by the monitor you're looking at and the problem you're thinking about. Or the complete lack of any meaningful personal connection, at the expense of increasing the profits of a few already rich people.
Instead, let's have women be shaped by the molds of the modern world, and celebrate as that dehumanizing process becomes more and more complete. This is progress, this is good, as we're led to believe. And so every significant difference is treated this way, as a bug that needs to be corrected and homogenized into the non-human mode of "living" within the technological system.
This is especially apparent with children before and after school, 11 who have their spontaneous, carefree and energetic approach to life squashed into institutionalized passivity, fear of authority and an obsession with getting the "right answer", i.e. the one that agrees with the system or its institutions.
The surface might change, such as having more minorities and female protagonists in movies, or more restaurants of diverse cuisine, 12 the statistics tell us we are more and more "inclusive" in more and more jobs, but no real difference is made. The system keeps marching on, and people lose their ability to discern between the surface propaganda and the underlying essence—or rather non-essence—which in fact hasn't changed at all: coercion and disembodiment.
We are allowed to be different in ways that are totally harmless to our system, but anything that could allow people to truly live as they want, i.e. freely from the system, has to be erased, in order for the system to stay powerful.
5 "Prayer is powerful precisely because it does nothing", from Luke Smith's critique of "reason". One of the myths of our society is that reacting to problems is always better than doing nothing. This is one of those myths that can only be invalidated by the test of time, because everything in the media will reinforce this idea because we get "good" results by hiding away all the problems that build up.
6 Great analogy pointed out by Darren Allen. Another relevant essay here.
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2024-07-22