How did we get here? ".
Safe Spaces: 2010-2015 Universities began to treat speech as offensive and dissent as something to be managed or avoided altogether. People need to be protected from ideas.
Cancel Culture: 2016-2020 Once Disagreement is Framed as Harmful Punishment. Reputations are destroyed, status is stripped and people are pushed out because they deviate from the accepted ideological line.
Censorship: 2021-2023 Canceling culture was not enough. If you have the wrong opinion you cannot speak at all. Account deletion and shadow ban.
Structural Exile: 2023-2025 Careers, licenses, platforms, banks, everything has become conditional on ideological loyalty. Do not agree and you risk not being allowed to operate in the company at all. The human soul sees exile as death.
Normalization of direct violence: 2025 and beyond Once someone is perceived as harmful, dangerous and unfit for social participation, the final step is elimination. Violence is justified.