It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the time that tried men's souls.

 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the time that tried men's souls. 

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was a time of profound intelligence and strength, and ignorance and weakness. It was a time of profound bravery and courage, and profound cowardice and shame. It was a time of almost infinite, unfathomable knowledge, available at everyone's fingertips. Yet it was a time of profound censorship and ignorance. Nearly unlimited information, soured by lies, trivial matters, and gossip. All the libraries in the world, all the information humanity had acquired, thrust upon us, and yet, rejected by many, who simply dug deeper in to their refuge, seeking solace in their own ignorance. The truth, where it was permitted, was drowned in a deluge of misinformation, lies and emptiness, devoid of any meaning. The vapid, substanceless nature of it's rot, infesting every social media company and forum with it's viciously cruel yet painfully saccharine coating. A time of great moral crusades to do evil, to cancel others, to hurt and censor, in the name of social justice, which it was anything but. To expose children to horrifying acts. To expose us all to the horrors of the world, to gore and violence and crime, despite the now unlimited access to it's beauty. To dig up the dark underbelly and ignore all that was good in the world, to take refuge in cynicism and ignorance. The deep dark bliss of hating all and never having to commit to anything, pretending one was above it all, both somehow in control of everything and yet totally helpless. To be the eternal victim, of unlimited strength to bully others. A time when abusers pretended to be victims, monsters pretended to be saints, and a time when we were never more connected around the world, and yet never more lonely. We were all anonymous, and yet had no privacy, our information public to all. Our privacy a precious asset, that we freely gave away. 

Despite being the best time in human history, with nearly unlimited food, water, and resources available by comparison to humanity's early days out in the great plains or hiding in caves, it was a time of great repression and suppression, of people, of society and the truth. A time of the greatest pleasures, and the worst of pains. It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times. How odd the paradox we lived in. The year was, 2023. How profoundly things had changed in the last century, and perhaps even more profound, how profound it was that they had stayed the same. It seemed almost inevitable that war would happen, in such peaceful times. Like crabs in a bucket, misery wanted company. This was the curse of our generation. The profound depression that was our lives, in the best time it had ever been to be alive. That what we had created had planted the seeds to destroy itself, or created the conditions by where those who never truly had to suffer did not know what real suffering was, and thus by mistake had recreated it. The more we had, the less we seemed we could enjoy it. We would have to learn, from those unhappy times, those desperate times, when very civilizations stood to be destroyed by war or a bad winter, ironically, how to be happy. It was a tremendous irony that our own lack of contentness with how good we had it, was destroying us. 

Democrats and the Moral panics; It actually wasn't the right-wing trying to ban video games or engaged in most moral panics in the 90's

 Democrats and the Moral panics

Much ado has been made of the moral panics of the 80's and 90's, most of them exaggerated. They generally were not as large or widespread as many believe, and the fact they exist as a comparison to a more reasonable position an ordinary person would hold by itself is proof of this. Moral panics are not always a bad thing and can easily lead to good results, however in some cases they clearly went overboard even when good intentions were present. They took many forms and had many different humorous and often publicly debated outcomes. What is particularly startling and has been concerning to me as of late, however, is the revisionist history surrounding these moral panics, that seem to have penetrated the public consciousness so well most people actually feel as if they remember pivotal events that never occurred. For example, a common sentiment is that either nearly everyone in society partook in them back in the day, despite few believing in it at the time aside from Fringe cults, or that certain groups are given blame that has almost no association with them, such as an entire Church or entire political wings. None is so dramatic in this association than the supposed "Christian Right-Wing", which apparently wanted to do everything from ban video games, Dungeons and Dragons, Hollywood movies, any form of Sex, or Guns, or contradictingly wanted to legalize all guns, partook in weird sex cults, and wanted to harm our children with vile depictions of violence. Most people, even the Conservatives themselves, often times make the claim that the Conservatives of the 90's, frequently referred to as Neocons, wanted to "ban everything", or at least everything they didn't approve of. 

However, these particular issues are falsely blamed on the right-wing, who objectively in congress and in states voted against their censure or banning, while the Democrats supported them, and generally left-wing parties around the world. Kamala Harris for example lost the famous supreme court case revolving around laws that tried to place restrictions on violent video games in California, and served as as landmark supreme court case, a case she lost while serving as Attorney general of California and acted upon California's wishes. The entire state of California voted for these laws, a predominately democrat state with predominately democrat legislators, and yet many believe it was Republicans who wanted to ban video games. If congressional records are checked it becomes clear Republicans overwhelmingly voted against banning violent video games or media with guns such as in hollywood movies, while the Democrats voted in favor of it. Many will claim that Fox news amplified messages to ban video games during the 1993-1994 hearings to regulate violent video games, however they would not exist until 1996. In fact many claim to have specifically heard right-wing politicians or church leaders claiming they wanted to ban video games, however most while "Definitely certain" on these memories, cannot recall a single particular detail about them, or which individual was even involved, they only feel they "know" that this "certainly" happened. The 1993-1994 hearings were lead by Senator Lieberman (Al Gore's Vice presidential pick for the upcoming election), and Herb Kohl (Another democrat who was the richest man to ever serve in the senate and a proponent of big business), and resulted in very little actual government action, despite attempts to do so by the democrats at the time, including Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton (Bill Clinton who was the president with Al Gore as his vice president, the two most powerful democrats in office at the time), Hillary clinton who would go on in the early 2000's to try to ban guns and video games with Liebermen, again. In almost every subsequent attempt to regulate video games to date, it almost always has been by the left, even worldwide, with the same hearings often being tied to other English speaking countries such as Canada or the UK where international laws were attempted to be created but also failed. 

Yet if asked, almost every person will claim that it was the right-wing who wanted to ban video games and everything else, including from the right-wing. In fact, many claim to have hyper-specific memories of these events, that they can never recall and have no details of, that they aggressively insist are true. Why? For the most part, these were political concepts that were retroactively engineered and emplaced in to the heads of the general public, who unknowingly and passively absorbed ideas that would suit a political narrative by many in the media. Without any kind of counterbalance or contradiction, often because the ideas were subtly implied, and the fact the media is only 7% Republican, it quickly became "fact" in the public mind, despite being so easily disprovable. Many even formed fake memories of themselves witnessing rightwing figures calling for the ban, despite no major event like this ever occurring. The confusion of the events and vague recollections was mixed with false information, a phenomena common in eyewitnesses of crimes or UFO's, who claim they are certain they remember something that is only jarred out of their memory by seeing a photo or video of the event directly. Investigators are careful not to implant ideas in to victims heads when they are being interviewed as, by the mere power of suggestion, these people can invent these scenarios in their head, and truly believe they are real, despite provably never having taken place (such as proven by video cameras). People may remember that their victimizers were larger in number (I.E. one attacker becomes four), had different skin and hair colors, had different ages, and were even different genders, going so far as to plug movie characters in to these positions with the same faces and attire, or even believing aliens abducted them instead of kidnappers. Memory associations are formed that even victims of crime who's testimony could lead to the arrest of people, simply cannot shake. While this is more frequent in people during traumatic events to rewrite memories in this way, it can occur to anyone and everyone, and I believe disturbingly millions of people have been mislead in this way, perhaps deliberately, to sell a particular political narrative. The implications of this are staggering, but the mass formation of false memories is both intriguing, and important to pinpoint and explain far larger problems facing our society today. Combatting public myths is important to change peoples minds politically, and the implications of political decisions being made for an entire country based solely on myths that could prove disastrous could be staggering. 

Violent Video games

There are a few landmark supreme court decisions and congressional decisions that deal explicitly with video games, usually overlapping with crime bills and attempts to regulate hollywood as well, however these virtually all were proposed predominately by and voted in favor of by Democrats, and opposed by Republicans. 

Some will then go on to claim, that, while Republican politicians in office may have voted overwhelmingly against banning video games, 

Satanic Panic

Mandela effect and memory manipulation

A primary purpose of this article is to discuss directly the effects of memory manipulation and mass formation of false beliefs or even mass pyschosis, however the precursor is necessary to concretely prove that everyone imagined Fox news hosts or Conservatives wanting to ban video games and other things. [...] What makes the Mendela effect so compelling for my argument and particular views and relevant to the discussion, is not merely that many people assumed that Mendela was dead, but that political figures milked his death and claimed to have been at their funeral in numerous 

So what happened when they were exposed as the obvious liars they were? They doubled down. Not a single one lost election. And so in the public consciousness, millions, if not perhaps even billions were lead to believe an obvious lie to save face, and the memories of millions were distorted in live action merely to serve a political narrative. If such false memories could be instilled in to the minds of millions with such rapid ease, what other ideas could these people implant in to the heads of the populace, ingrained in to the public consciousness, that could just as easily manipulate them? I contend these are not the only and last times these events have happened, in fact I can think of dozens of examples too long to list, that serve as pillars or cornerstones of people's views, that are completely fabricated. 

Eyewitness testimony 

Some various myths

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