This definitely isn't a case of "things were better in my day", it's a simple case of questioning whether or not shite like pronouns helps us advance civilization in a meaningful way.
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how pronouns and ideologies such as gender fluidity will help advance society.
If it helps some people feel more comfortable in their skin and accepted, is it a detriment to society? I'd call that progress.
The notion of a distracted West has never been more true.
There are other areas of the world who pay no mind to any of this, and it's no coincidence that they are advancing at breakneck speed. No coincidence that many of the best videogames products are coming out of countries not preoccupied by this nonsense as well. It's not only wrecking economic output, it's also wrecking your entertainment products.
All of these rapidly growing economies are rapidly growing to catch up to the US, which still far outstrips any and all of them in every meaningful capacity.
Yes the rate of growth is incredible, but its easy to grow fast, when you're starting off small. There's also the fact that India and China each have 4 times the population of the USA, which plays a massive role in economic output and growth. And yet, they are not as productive as the US.
We'll see where this goes long term.
When it comes to entertainment, maybe? But how many Bollywood films and TV shows do you consume? Aside from 1 recent high-profile game from China; Wukong (which incidentally sold most strongly in China), how many Chinese video games do you play? How much Chinese media do you consume? Its easy to say that they're "wrecking" the West, but are they? The most played game in the world is Fortnite which is decidedly American.
I understand what you're trying to suggest don't get me wrong, but I don't think any of these companies are outstripping western games by any stretch. You could maybe argue Japanese games are the most influential at the moment, but Japan's economy is completely torpedoed at the moment, so that doesn't exactly serve your argument.
You would think that at some point people would stop and question what is going on and why it's happening, but alas, the propaganda is too overwhelming for most.
I don't understand what the problem is with pronouns? Why is it such a cultural scourge?
And more to the point, why is it that the presence of pronouns or "wokeness" is an automatic indicator of game quality being bad? If you say because game developers use those things as a crutch to try and deflect criticism of the quality of the game? Sure I'd buy that. But stuff like pronouns in and of themselves aren't the reason games are bad, if they're just used to mask other problems.
And don't insult my intelligence by attempting to equate things like demanding pronouns and the rise of modern LGBT ideology to the civil rights act. People who get up in arms about pronouns - that's a self created "problem" on a voluntary basis, while those of us who are black didn't wake up one day, read some propaganda online (or in the "news") and decide that's the way things needed to be for ourselves.
I suppose demanding personhood and freedom is not exactly the same as demanding pronouns, but people who are gay or lesbian or heaven forbid, trans, definitely are demonised and/or victimised for simply wanting to be recognised for what they are. Thankfully we don't live in a world where those people would be lynched or enslaved for simply existing, but that doesn't mean they can't fight for what they believe in.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is all that anyone ever really asks for.
