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Gen Z men have turned so hard right and why the outputs from those industries he mentions (academia, hollywood and media) are such crap these days.
Indeed. It is so obvious to me and has been for over a decade. I remember where I was when I really got it. It's a pattern in human behaviour.
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the old institutions/centers of intellectual power just wither away, and we rebuild them elsewhere...?
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I mean, haven't they been for the last decade? And it's going to get worse when the leftover talented old white men retire or die in these institutions.
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I wrote about the source article by Jacob Savage in my newsletter, but to recap, this overt discrimination against young white men explains for me why Gen Z men have turned so hard right and why the outputs from those industries he mentions (academia, hollywood and media) are such crap these days.
Two other points.
First, this has been happening for middle and lower class white men for decades already. Adam Carolla talks about how he had to wait 7 years to get an interview to become a firefighter in California back in his 20's, which a black woman got one in a few days. It took a talented writer from the upper class getting screwed for this unfair practice to get truly noticed.
Second, this is how institutions crumble and I don't think there's anything that will save these industries suffering from self-inflicted wounds. Fewer people go to college, fewer people watch hollywood slop and fewer people watch the news. The alternatives where the talented go will become much more prominent in the next decades.