The Will to Abdication

Tyler is fired up, and not wanting our listeners to think we only condemn women's lack of agency after last episode, we have what amounts to a lengthy rant on the degeneration into a total lack of agency across all of Western society. Social thought patterns in modernity are plagued by a complete unwillingness to assign accountability to the actual doers of actions. Everyone is always looking for "causes" and/or distant reasons (i.e. bogeymen) to shift the blame to. As we've discussed numerous times already, "the system" is everyone in society, not distant and isolated figureheads or anthropomorphized entities like "government" or "corporations". The whole of society consistently chooses to take voluntary, daily actions that are driving us rapidly towards collapse and self-enslavement - all while constantly complaining about the direction and lamenting an imagined inability to do anything about it because it's always claimed to be coming from some distant "causer" of everything... i.e. whatever anyone's favorite bogeyman is and never the common people actually doing the direct actions. Nothing will change for the better until everyday people are willing to take accountability for their own contributions to everything they complain about and stop outsourcing their agency to some distant abstract concept or bogeyman. Until then, expect to see people running as fast and far as possible from responsibility for their own actions and instead only ever exercising their drive for power by living vicariously through herd reactions to the "current thing" on the internet.