Cancel culture is a product of the neoliberal society and will be solved by neoliberal means.
Here’s how.
Neoliberalism stratifies. There’s no middle in anything. It’s all extremes.
It’s also all about individual choices. If you have discipline and willpower, you win. If you don’t, you lose. Those who can boundary up win. Those who gush out lose.
It’s all quite new but soon enough the stratification will become very clear. The gushing, the emoting, the structurally oppressed and the perennially unsafe will run around with their outrage campaigns, cancellations, and dramas. That will be all they’ll have.
And then there will be those who won’t want to collapse into a mental heap. They’ll realize that they need to boundary up against the drama. They’ll know that they need to keep themselves under control because nobody else will. They’ll observe the cancel crowd like entomologists observe gnats.
In short, cancel culture won’t go away but nobody with anything resembling an actual life will notice.
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