Whether you have been assaulted or have been the victim of abuse or have just been beaten half to death by a crooked cop or are just calling out someone for lying, you have probably been labeled a public shaming, virtue signaling, unpatriotic, woke, socialist traitor by the internet or even by close friends and relatives. This acidic reaction to people calling out injustice is a sign of a people that have grown to loathe anything different, anything unusual, anything that does not make perfect sense at all times. For humans, there must always be an easy solution to every problem. This like systemic racism or patriarchy cannot exist because they are icky words that sound difficult to understand. There must be simpler, kinder, easier catch phrases for people to chant in order for the boring to go on living in a comfortable state of ignorance. Nothing can be anyone's fault and everyone has to play nice. An easy way to make people play nice is to change the dialogue that people use. Up until this year, I had never even heard people using idiotic terms like "public shaming" or "virtue signaling" before. Why? Because normal people do not boil complex issues down to simple phrases, only politicians do that. But people are becoming more political, and that has its downsides as well as its upsides. In this episode I will focus on the downside of this great political awakening, and that is that as people become more like politicians, they start to lose their concept of human decency. Everything becomes a deal waiting to be achieved, a bargain on the cusp to being reached. Utopia is only a contract away; now sign on the dotted line before you are left out...or else. You cannot talk to politicians normally. You cannot just sit down an have a discussion with a politician because they are always thinking of how they can use you next. You are much more talking to a computer program when you speak to a politician. They have approved things that they can say and if you go outside that paradigm, the system will malfunction and crash. Computer programs have no sense of right and wrong, but they do have a concept of well or unwell. Americans today are like the plumber you just called to fix your sink. They have just the tool for that problem, but you will have to pay extra. But societal issues are not as simple as grabbing a wrench from your dirty pick up truck. Old political wounds need a doctor, not a plumber, before they will ever be addressed. But the arrogant hoards of people disagree. They know how to fix you. They have the answer. All they have do is insult a few more people, disgrace a few more movements, point a few more fingers and, presto, America is healed. This desire to shut everyone up, to tame the world and make it stop being so naughty, comes from a place of deep fear. It takes a hero to save someone; it takes a coward to shut some one up. Cowards are plentiful in America. They go on popular media and yell at people for not liking this or that solution. The whole idea of "public shaming" and "virtue signaling" are just another way of expressing how very scared America is of change. America is a state that is now living in a kind of arrested development, denying that things like social movements and political change are natural parts of a state's progression and instead blaming it on communism or socialism or social media or counter culture or whatever other thing does not jive with mediocrity. If it is not mediocre and boring, it is not desirable in America. And so the various shaming narratives were invented to stop people from calling out the bullshit artists in society. How can you call someone out for abuse if you have twenty thousand morons on youtube responding to you and calling you names? Most people would never do such thing so thank goodness for people like me who see through this idiocy or else we would already be living in a monarchy. Kings and Queens and dictators would love today's internet wiz kids.