When The Enemy Has No Face, Society

Instead Of Confronting Its Real And Difficult Problems And Grappling Honestly With A Dark Past, Hungary Embraced A Reactionary Government And A Self-pitying Image Of Itself As The Victimized Nation, And Went Looking For Scapegoats In The Roma, Jews, And, Most Recently, Syrian Migrants.

The Demand That Women "return To Femininity" Is A Demand That The Cultural Gears Shift Into Reverse, That We Back Up To A Fabled Time When Everyone Was Richer, Younger, More Powerful.

The Culture Used To Move Relatively Slowly, So You Could Take Aim. Now It Moves So Fast, And Is So Fluffy And Meaningless, You Feel Like An Idiot Even Complaining About It.

Gender Is Really Varied And Complicated And Sort Of Infinitely Individualistic.

The Media And The Rest Of Popular Culture Weren't Recording People's Reactions To 9/11; They Were Forcing Made-up Reactions Down People's Throats.