I can only speak as my experience as an American, but how do they not have ANY self awareness? They aggressively defend the status quo in the most embarrassing ways possible. White pmc-types frequently appropriate the language and culture of black women in a way that is painful to witness.
They are almost universally smug and assume everyone else is dumb and uneducated.
Why is this? I assume some of this has to do with the fact that American conservatives give them such a low bar to compete against. Americans are probably the most overconfident people on the planet.
It seems like they all are just trying to emulate an Aaron Sorkin character. Is this common in other parts of the world?
That’s what western brainwashing does to people.
It’s a kind of brainwashing to tell people that theyre not brainwashed, just superior to others, but theyre superior to others (in opinons) because they dont think they’re superior to others (in race), get it?
As for the smugness and pettiness, I’m not sure what its origin is, probably the extreme individualism in the west combined with extreme political division. Another problem of a western style democracy is that both sides (despite being politically almost identical when in power) always become so divided over time, developing complete hatred and lack of respect for each other, and of course thinking the other side is incredibly dumb. So you effectively have a society where both halves think the other half is dumb, so 100% of the population think 50% of the population is moronic. A sort of smugness develops when you consider yourself to be superior to a massive 50% of people around you, especially with social media and how everyone kind of congregates into their ecochambers of calling the other side dumb.
This obviously doesnt happen in one party states, even if you have a 5% minority who hate the party and government, thats 5% hating 95% and 95% hating 5%, you wont feel like a superior god if you only think 5% of people are dumb.
Im sure theres other factors, like a general social degredation of respect for other people, i suppose the boomers are right about that. Somehow we’ve managed to increase tolerance while decreasing respect. Cancel culture is another ridiculous thing, dont take that in the wrong way, but the idea that you can hate and scrub out a persons entire career because of one single point you disagree with, one ancient tweet, etc, is actually really weird. Sure some of them deserve it, but a lot of the time its totally blown out of proportion and for me it represents how western libs are just so eager to be nasty and destroy other people, it’s basically a violent mob going around committing social murder on anyone who goes against CURRENT THING.