#intelectualism

Can someone please explain how we went from the 2020 “woke” movement to this wave of conservatism in 2025? Because honestly, the shift makes no sense to me. Just five years ago, it felt like we were making meaningful progress. People were becoming more empathetic, open-minded, and unafraid to express their identities. Discrimination was actively called out and condemned.

This shift wasn’t just visible online; you could see the change happening in real life. For example, in my graduating class, around 15 students came out in 2020, and they faced no backlash whatsoever. Acceptance became an expectation rather than a mere encouragement, as discrimination was simply not tolerated. Nowadays, around 10 of those 15 individuals deny that they ever came out, brushing it off as a joke and embracing more conservative ideals—like aspiring to have the “perfect” traditional family. There’s also the noticeable shift in feminist discourse. In 2020, it felt like nearly every young woman identified as a feminist. Now, however, we’re witnessing a tendency in young girls pursuing a "tradwife" future and anti-intellectual trends such as "girl math," where the underlying joke is that women are inherently less intelligent than men.

I genuinely don’t understand how we’ve regressed so drastically. It’s not just the past five years that feel lost—it’s like thirty years of progress have been undone. An ad promoting eugenics shouldn’t even be part of public discourse, let alone broadcasted. People who endorse such ideas shouldn’t even have a career. Don't even get me started on those podcasts where men are proudly sexist and just awful human beings. It´s simply baffling to me how someone can be so open with their hatred and not have any repercussions whatsoever.

,,Earthly things can be known through the human mind, but the Lord and all heavenly things are known only through the Holy Spirit and cannot be known through the simple mind alone. He who has known God through the Holy Spirit forgets the earth as if it no longer existed, but after prayer he raises his eyes and sees it again.

Brothers, in the Kingdom of Heaven the saints see the glory of God, but let us humble ourselves and the Lord will love us and will give us on earth everything that is beneficial for soul and body, and He will reveal to us all mysteries.

People have attached their souls to the acquisition of earthly goods and have lost the love of God, that is why there is no peace on earth. Many want to know, for example, how the sun was formed, but they forget to know God. The Lord, however, did not speak to us about the sun, but revealed to us about the Father and the Kingdom of Heaven. He said that in the Kingdom of His Father the righteous will shine like the sun [Mt 13, 43]; and the Scripture says that the Lord will be the Light in paradise [Rev 21, 23; 22, 5] and the Light of the Lord will be in the soul, in the mind and in the body of the saints."

In many forums over the past decade, public intellectuals seem unable to talk about pressing social issues without performing the equivalent of an aca...

A very interesting read on intellectualism and academia. 

Ok, Im aware that i whine about America a lot on here, but really... When did complete and utter denial (sometimes to the degree of great harm) become public policy number one of the (loud) majority of american people? the forced ignorance of (lets face it) all the republican front runners is downright shocking! since when is it the responsibility of a democratic government to deny such urgent and obvious facts  (global warming, various medical research, ext...) in order to pander to headline grabbing fringe groups and get the media lapdog to focus on them. What happened to American politics? in just over 50 years they have gone from the likes of Eisenhower and Kennedy, to the likes of Romney and Santorum. Even (don't hate me on this) Obama had honestly been pretty disappointing; a good man, but too centrist and diplomatic to get much substantial work done. Ultimately all of american mainstream politics has become little more than a cesspit of incompetence and populism.

Srsly U Guise...

U Guise,