When people make their personal lives public, they hand them to the Left. Cancel culture is nourished by consuming the others’ lives.
Cancel culture, like most of our contemporary cultural revolution, began in China.
Over several years, rural Chinese migrated to massive mega-cities whose impossible population densities were matched by the growing interconnection of the internet. While three quarters of China’s population is now on the internet, in 2006 it grew by a quarter to encompass only 10%.
In these cramped quarters, physical and social, there was no room for the individual.
