a truly disturbing trend, it had a forerunner in the health and safety industry when I was in mining - new jobs created to support seemingly daily additions to the rules... no WAY could you push back against it... immediate cult status *did actually save lives tho, there is that.
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Guy Rundle has a theory that 'safety' is at bottom of many things today: safe spaces, content warnings on media and in uni, cancelling, speech laws. Like in mining I suspect, it started as a good tactic for the lower of the classes, but now the knife is firmly in the other hand
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Yeah I'd agree that's a big part of it - protecting people from harm - and given the therapy culture of the last couple decades, we now also protect people from mental/emotional harm, however slight. Moved from a therapy model to a prevention model. Result - restricted behaviour.
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But while that might be the philosophy driving it, I still think the root cause is career generation. So many university educated people who need work; so they create it for themselves. And this gets reinforced by capital and politics in a unending cycle...
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I think that's right, jobs in a new clergy enforcing the new sacraments
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