I am a child of the 2000s. I was a daily reader of GamePolitics. I had a front row seat to all the crazy culture war stuff.
Why were cultural conservatives so crazy in the 2000s?
I remember listening to this and they had this old guy on who called gamers "voyeurs".
I also went to church every Sunday but only to make my family happy. I never cared about anything they said there. Sex is a sin? Well I don't care!
Yet I was spiritual. I believed in ghosts, monsters, and UFOs. My spiritual side seemed to die out as I got older. Science and technology interests me more now.
In HS I only cared about becoming rich and I was a typical CoD brodude. I never cared about any issues back then that I care about now such as environmentalism, science, and sexual freedom. I only said I supported gay marriage to make my friends happy and annoy my parents. It was only until after a few of my friends came out of the closet shortly before the 2015 ruling on gay marriage that I became fully supportive of LGBT rights.
Despite being exposed to porn during my middle school years I never got fully comfortable with sexuality in media until I played Mass Effect 1 and watched a few episodes of Game of Thrones during my college years. And I loved seeing two hot chicks kiss each other in Sims 4.
I am no fan of the SJWs but I never got sucked into the alt right. I had "SJW" teachers but I never really got into social justice.
After I got out of HS I found liberalism to be exciting and refreshing.
My liberalism dealt with science and sexual freedom. I think a future full of spaceships, aliens, freedom, and hot women would be more awesome than a future decided by an ancient religious text that demands slavery to an "antichrist" and an apocalyptic final battle.
Is my liberalism shallow and superficial?
Does culture or genetics influence a person's worldview?