A bunch of the youtubers that I shadow (that is, check in with I’m bored, but don’t subscribe to) have been talking about a console game called Pragmata. Apparently there is some controversy about it because the concept is a heroic guy has to work with a robot/AI that resembles a little girl, and he naturally assumes the role of a father/protector.
The weirdos that infest the contemporary gaming scene have a problem with this. In their twisted minds, normal healthy men should treat helpless children with indifference and any fatherly interest must be a mask for pedophilia. Obviously, this is industrial-grade projection (which I touched on in my most recent column).
This got me to thinking about how this used to be a staple in lots of movies. Aliens, for example, has Newt, a little girl who actually looks like Pragmata, and the Colonial Marines and of course Ripley immediately take to her, comforting her and playing along with her by giving her gear.
I can also invoke the ancient Battlestar Galactica wars by recalling that a prominent character in the original series was Boxey, a fatherless child whose mother dies early in the series, and he is raised by Apollo, his adopted father. Apollo’s immediate ability to reach Boxey, and comfort him is a factor in his mother’s subsequent marriage and indeed at that time, women very much wanted to marry men who were good with kids.
The temporary success of wokeness as an ideology/faith system was built entirely on an artificial environment. It can only thrive online, when faces are hidden by avatars or filters, where dissent can be easily removed and punishments inflicted without risk of retaliation.
Once that is removed, it crumbles into irrelevancy. Normal people were for a time convinced they were a tiny minority, but that illusion has been dispelled, and the sales figures for woke games and movies are one of the ways this was exposed.
“Cancel culture” is largely dead, and in its place we are seeing the time-tested rules imposed by social tradition and market success. Young women seem to be a lagging indicator in this, but eventually they, too, will fall in line.
Chateau Lloyd 
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