Braindead Phrases: "Cancel Culture"

The phrase "cancel culture" has been thrown around to the point of it being interpreted as meaningless political slang, and we all know how we feel about political slang on this blog. However, cancel culture is a real thing. No one wants to be held in the hostile court of public opinion. However, it's also a topic that I'm not really invested in (other than this article) for two reasons:

1. Cancel Culture, even though it's been greatly amplified by social media, is as old as well, culture itself.

2. Everybody (including yours truly) has engaged in cancel culture at least to some extent. We are all our own worst enemy in that regard. We can often be hypocrites in that regard.

Now, whenever you have culture, you're going to have those who will try to cancel it. The ancient cultures of antiquity usually taken the phrase "cancel culture" quite literally often. Usually, by destroying cities, as like what Babylon did to Nineveh in 612BC. 

Throughout history, this action had been demonstrated constantly. During the Reformation, the Catholic Church tried to cancel the Protestant movement, and then in response, the Protestant movement tried to cancel out the Catholic Church. There was a lot of cancel culture during the Reformation! During the late 19th/early 20th century, English society cancell3d Oscar Wilde because of choices he made due to his sensuality. People canceled George Carlin for the jokes that he would tell. So far those who think that canceling YouTube Commentators is a recent thing, it's not. During the Cold War, Joseph McCarthy canceled many people because of perceived ties to Communism during the Red Scare, without evidence I might add. The fact is that while many think that cancel culture is a recent phenomenon, it's not.

Now onto point two. Everybody has participated in cancel culture to at least some extent. However, those who scream "cancel culture" at the top of their lungs are often times the most active participants of it. The fact that by highlighting those who they perceive to be canceling them, in return, they are causing their followers to respond in kind by canceling them as a response mechanism. This can be seen within religious circles. By not liking where a company may stand in response to a social issue, often times, many Christians will not partake in doing business with that establishment, thus canceling them in the process. While many Christians will denote when they feel cancel culture is being inflicted on them, many will respond in the same manner that they criticism others for doing to them.

When it comes to doing business with an establishment, anyone is free to are whatever choices that they want. However, a business exists to sell goods. Thus, whatever goods the business sells should be the very first metric that a company should be judged by. If their products are good, reward them. If they're products are crap, don't. Nobody is forcing you to buy them. Nobody is forcing you to watch a particular show or movie. If you don't like what you see, turn off the damn TV. However, if you reward or punish a company for things that aren't relevant to their business model, then one is placing that company on a pillar. I don't give a crap whether an internet provider is quote "family friendly" or not. What I want to know is whether the internet service is going to provide is going to be good or not. The attributes that a business uses to describe themselves that doesn't pertain to their products is just extra crap that they are using to scam people into buying their garbage.