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Maybe I’m missing something, but the real problem seems to be a lack of community and a rise in greed and hypocrisy. Maybe in the past that came from churches, but for most religion has become less about loving your neighbor and more about controlling people’s sex lives, while covering up wide-spread sex abuse. What used to be a kind of conservatism that wanted things local has become a kind of conservatism that selfishly just wants to keep what it has, without regard for fellow humans and their needs. The woke, to me, are just trying to put some kind of system in place to value all people where one doesn’t exist organically, and obviously as such is counterproductive most of the time. But the root is that as a society we don’t value family, we don’t value parenting, we don’t value and invest in children.. We don't think it’s worth loving our neighbors, unless they are exactly like us. I think the nihilism comes from that being an empty society, one that cares mostly about what school you went to, what degrees you have, and what neighborhood you live in more than being of service, or at least a part of something in your community.

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