Cancel culture may cancel individual lives via social death, which may or may not be deserved in particular cases, but if the incidence of “justice by cancelation” is high enough relative to due process redressal, what’s being canceled is the idea of the institution itself.
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To complete the analogy, the libertarian werewolf packs think they’ll inherit the world after the vampires and zombies destroy each other and they eat the humans on the way to their Galtian fortresses, but they’re mostly weresheep in practice and can be safely ignored as NPCs.
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Final point: I haven’t said much about the target class of cancel culture, unaccountable institutional elites of some sort. The ones analogous to extractive vampire-farmers in this convoluted mixed metaphor. They are harder to generalize about since they are more varied.
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Raging zombies are all alike, every predatory vampire is predatory in its own way. Universities, Hollywood, gaming communities, legislative bodies, corporations, courts, each is extractively destroyed in its own way.
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I have seen zero recent efforts to governance or restraint succeed. That plus a casual acquaintance with history leads me to believe zombies are more likely. I'm betting heavily on tech-enhanced FSU. Where's your bunker?
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