One of the interesting things about traveling in 2022 is seeing how The Issue is different in each country. But the same class of media, political, corporations, and activists use the same means and support the topic with the same vigor and tactics.
The color is always different, it is purple in Mexico, orange in Canada, and black (or green lately) in the U.S.A.
The Issue is different, but the actions are similar. Tearing down statues, burning down churches, creation of ever more complex and disorienting language games. A hyper-focus from the media on the topic at the expense of other serious issues.
When you see that the orange issue in Canada, the purple issue in Mexico, and the green issue in the states all seem to come from the same place, be supported by the same forces, and all aimed in the same direction you can start to understand that these individual issues don’t matter.
The revolutionary march to progress just needs any issue to seize and metastasize. One topic to divide and destroy the shared values of the people. One shameful story to push people to reject that past so that we can all become the new Red humans of the future.
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