Comment by unsupp0rted

> The more general problem — how to prevent similar outbreaks of aggressively performative moralism — is of course harder.

It would help to be a multi-planetary civilization, because seen from afar it's obvious wokeness, or prudishness or what-have-you is a bad idea.

Most people have antibodies to wokeness in the sense that it's easy to see it's performative. People, especially the internet generation, have finely-tuned BS detectors.

But as PG said, the majority are performing not to be lauded but to avoid being ostracized/canceled/fired.

With some physical and societal distance, say 140 million miles, perhaps that's enough of a barrier to let one society deal with the latest prudishness while the other remains healthy, then switch.