If you should still be wondering, why so few hackers are actual conservatives, may I present you with this (not at all) historical piece, I just coincidently watched recently - that captures it:
click on Vimeo to watch it fullscreen
(Film is a callback to If... (1968) also with Malcolm McDowell and David Wood, which was an artfilm shortly before the 68 liberal revolution in britain at the time, ...
Watch it.
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Now this is a case, where it urks me, that this video still has zero views (according to vimeo).
I really shouldnt care, but this time I do.
Because to me it shows me one thing. People dont care about finding stuff out about the issue at hand at all.
Premise:
Conservative majorities, ruled the world for the past x decades. They've build most of the structures we know as society today. The last time we saw a liberal 'uprising' (small, nonviolent revolution), that actually worked, and changed societies for a while was in 1968.
Now - if I give you 'documentaries' about what happened at that time - they won't do it justice. I couldnt even conceptualize how to produce one of those, that would actually kind of show what happened at the time (in a few short words, the youth rebelling against their parents generation, after there was set up a continuity of power after WW2 - in germany especially, for obvious reasons, but also in UK and other parts of the world).
But there are a few films in the artsy independent genre that were made around the time, that kind of do.
If you are interested in that stuff, then look at those.
But if you are just a person that wants their ego to be stroked, and doesnt look at anything on the internet if you identify a font treatment, that isnt from the youtube age - you make this a thread about your feels and nothing else.
If you don't want to learn a thing or two - why make this threads at all? Go on facebook, farm some likes by talking about your feels over situational pseudo political newsstories.
What - the video doesnt have someone faking excitement on the cover image, so you dont watch?
Again, I shouldnt care about people not watching something that took me 3 minutes to cut together - but in this case - I strangely do.
Probably, because millennials and gen z'ers are turning out to become the most conservative generations out there yet, because they self optimize for online likes, and don't even question established social structures at all - when changing them would actually mean that they don't have insta majorities on social media from minute one.
Liberal in sensibilities, but never in action, right?
edit: Also - because I know from experience, that you never click through to a source story - because that takes too much time out of your day - and you were conditioned to scroll neverending social feeds, and not to actually gather sources, that werent youtubers - here, have a link:
h**ps://vimeo.com/350550464
Otherwise I woulndt have a chance in hell - that you clicked the video, even after expressing wide spread disillusionment.
Again - once more, just for good measure - you create all those threads, to stroke your feels, not because you actually would want to learn a thing.
And if you think that this is unfair - let us hear one aspect you think you have learned from this thread so far.
Come on - make this a little exercise to see how much you take away from participating in 'political discussion' every day.
Oh - too provocative? Doesnt get you any like in the instagram world, so you don't like? Here, read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offending_the_Audience
Oh how strange, that one also premiered around 1968.