Anti-woke Faddism: Proof that “Goofy” isn’t Just a Disney Character
Back in the 1920s, there was a fad of swallowing live goldfish. In the 1970s, there was a fad of paying good money to own a pet rock. In the 2020s, there’s a fad of being outrageously anti-social in order to be the first on your block to have more than 15 minutes of fame. There are a couple of really popular routes to near-instant notoriety. One is to perform the rudest and crudest of acts as offerings to the ever-fickle news gods that they might answer a desperate prayer to grant fame as a punishment for bad behavior. This fad has become so fascinating to the political class that they anointed the faddiest of the nationally ranked fadsters as the fadiest fadster of the decade. Go Big Orange! (Sorry Ron or Rod, as the case may be, you’re still number two.)
There’s another fad that is popular in the 2020s. The rude fad is pretty much relegated to the MAGA class of society. But in the more historically aware class, those who can reference the reason the pilgrims came over the pond and the horrors of the inquisition, and the killing fields of Pol Pot, there exists an apparent denial of reality which is often stated as, “Nice rules”. There’s a chance this is mere ostrich-ing in the nearest sand trap or, maybe it’s an aversion to acknowledging an un-nice thing like reality. This fad is probably more dangerous than the fame fad because…
