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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 12, 2022

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This seems like an inability to decouple. The story touched on modern alienation and how young men found some difficult to articulate lacking in modernity. The fighters were described not as incels but as "the middle children of history" with "no purpose or place".

Durden:

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'll all be millionaires movie, gods and rock stars. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off.

Incels:

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'll all be fulfilled, happily married and useful. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And We're very very pissed off.

Do you see the parallel now? Of course the original expectations were always an unrealistic lie. Most men historically have not reproduced. But that realization itself is deranging, it is liable to get young men's blood boiling. If all they've been suffering for is a lie then why suffer? Some may even lash out and punish whoever they've convinced themselves are responsible in misplaced but not misfelt rage.

Yes, it's about disenfranchised men. I'm disputing the claim that it's about incels.

I guess I don't think anyone is claiming it was written about incels, it's just addressing the same root thing that incels also feel even though it presents differently.