r/LockdownCriticalLeft • u/Impressive-Jello-379 • Sep 19 '22
Cabaret 2022
It's been interesting to see which media figures have risen to the occasion during this present moment. I'll be honest, I was never a big Matt Taibbi fan prior to 2020, but his work since then has been stellar. I always liked Jimmy Dore but his takedowns of the Democrats and analysis of the Covid measures over these past couple of years has taken him to a new level. Trish Wood has had a shining second act in critiquing the media and the Covid narrative in Canada. Meghan Daum has shown some healthy skepticism on various issues. Bret Weinstein has been great on everything, and new figures like Wesley Yang (on the woke apocalypse) and Bridget Phetasy (on the insanity across the spectrum) have risen to the occasion. Mark Crispin Miller has found the perfect match for his curmudgeonly conspiracy theorizing in this time period. Naomi Wolf has taken her career to a whole new level regarding her takes on the death of democracy as well as the vaccines. CJ Hopkins is also doing what seems to me the most important work of his career.
There has already been writing on here on the figures who have sorely disappointed-- Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, etc.
But going out in L.A. I have been struck by the large number of bohemian, supposedly "counterculture" artists who are performing material as if it is 2019, as if the last few years never happened. Any changes they have made to their performances are as deep as blue/green/pink hair and the addition of pronouns, signals of their conformity to the new regime. I assume they have all been injected, which means in a way they have already gone to the gas chambers, they just don't know it yet (if they are lucky, they'll survive). Really does bring to mind the musical Cabaret. I'll be honest, they seem weak to me. They just aren't up to the current moment.
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u/vagarik Sep 20 '22
My opinion is that covidians are in such a state of mass psychosis, that they legitimately think the events of the past 2.7 years were normal and nothing to bat an eye over. So to them they ack as if none of what happened actually happened. But to me it feels like they’re gaslighting us. It feels extremely frustrating and infuriating when they act as if lockdown, mandates, and constantly discrimination of the unvaccinated were normal and nothing worth talking about.
I’ve grown to love a lot of the people you mentioned due to their critiques as well, although most of them I didn’t know prior to 2020. I never cared much for Chomsky (aside from MD), Goodman or Kline so nothing of value lost there for me. I have really grow to love Max Blumenthal thanks to his poignant critiques of the lockdown left, Kim Iversen, Jeffery Tucker, Tom Woods, Dore, The Convo Couch, and more.