This dynamite stick packaged as a short book, analyzes the twin reactions to the liberal-democratic consensus which served till recently as the self-evident normative foundation of our society: alt-right and Political Correctness. In other words: Trump's success feeds on his open fight against just that correctness, openly delivered not only in his speeches, but above all on the Internet. In her book Kill All Normies, Irish journalist Angela Nagle elucidates the circumstances that fomented this ideology. Incredibly enough, she ignores how even the CIA said they found no connections between Omar Mateen and ISIS, as well as how he was a security guard that tried to become a cop.

What seemed to hold them all together in their obscurity was a love of mocking the earnestness and moral self-flattery of what felt like a tired liberal intellectual conformity running right through from establishment liberal politics to the more militant enforcers of new sensitivities from the wackiest corners of Tumblr to campus politics. It seems mostly just as if it's unfinished; typos abound, strangely wrong quips about PTSD, unclear and sporadic theses, repeatedly bafflingly caricaturistic presentations of Friedrich Nietzsche, etc. We have wowed our potential clients with animation, left them in awe at our grasp on statistics, and preached on soapboxes to the multitudes about why they . Nagle, who locates herelf in the left spectrum, prophesies: "If the left wants to move forward, it is time to put away the aesthetic values ​​of this counterculture - and to invent something new".

Aside from lazily equating the right and left, there’s a very good reason why people often care about niches like 4chan - Because they're attacking and often killing them! If this dark, anti-Semitic, race segregationist ideology grows in the coming years, with their vision of the future that would necessitate violence, those who made the right attractive will have to take responsibility for having played their role. Other times the term is used to describe the socially well adjusted rarely-online person being observed by the very online shut-in. That's about it for the usefulness of the book, and to get to it you have to power through her complaints about trigger warnings and gender identity sprinkled throughout these chapters. The reality of what we are like when we are given the freedom to say what we like is actually extremely ugly.

It all goes to illustrate Nagle's central point about the dire paucity of ideas in our culture right now. Kony 2012” videos among others comes to mind in this rush to collect “virtue points” in this scarcity of virtue market on the Web.On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces.