Life in 2023 Canada feels like a different world than only 10 years ago.

In many ways, it would appear culture in my home country has changed drastically, some of the obvious impacts of our progress forward can be found on the streets of nearly every town and city across this country.

What are some the unheard and unseen changes? What are the untold stories?

Postcards from Doom will attempt to cover the emergent ridiculous heritage of modern Canada, the coping mechanisms of a young post-national country and the trials people face. A mix of fiction and non-fiction, I offer a unique perspective in predictions for the furure.

Canadian counter-culture

People like to frame everything as “right VS left wing” in Canada, keeping people in two easily manipulated camps. The top level of the iceberg, easily-visible to everyone, funnels people into their pre-destined casts where they can be kept in echo chambers that solidify their opinions and create political gridlock.

All ages Drag Shows for kids is the current tool of divide and conquer. As someone who has paid attention to nearly every emergent cultural movement, these drag shows being coordinated all at once is no coincidence; it is designed to divide people into a pro-and-con camps.

The Canadian Trucker convoy, regardless of how you feel about it, turned out to be a similar gift to those who pursue their own power through the “two-camp” political method. Since the convoy, the voices shouting the loudest in Canadian social media toss around the words “communist” and “fascist” with no hesitation. If you support drag queens reading to children, you’re a communist, if you support truckers protesting against vaccine mandates, you are a fascist.

There is no nuance. This is exactly how the elite stay in control.

In 2023, it should appear obvious to people that the culture war is purposefully pushed in order to obscure how little actual progress is being made in Canada. Our standard of living has taken a dive and the two political camps in this country focus on the division over solutions, discourse is reduced to the shills from either camp dunking on each other for clicks.

How will things ever improve?

A paradigm shift

Fear-based motivators like terrorism, climate change, war, financial crises and global pandemics can unite people under a current idea, but once that next phase has played out, another consciousness-grabbing event can be put in its place to keep people on the right track and doing the right thing.

For any real growth in the consciousness of a people, the cycle of apathy, to alarm, to alert, to angry and then demoralized, must be broken. Everything about our media, our way of life, and our social consciousness revolves around this new common sense, forcing anyone who thinks differently into the category of “other”, as the majority of people can be divided into two political camps that stubbornly argue over things in a directed tug-of-war. In Canada, it has recently been brought to light in the public consciousness that China had “meddled” with Canadian elections, or so it is alleged to have happened. Sound familiar to issues coming out of the USA?

Fighting absurdity with absurdity seems counter-intuitive, but in the end, if you want to challenge people’s points of view, coming at them with facts and your own narrative is the quickest way to get ignored. Even if you’re right, nobody wants to be told they are wrong.

Here at Postcards from Doom, nobody is right or wrong, it’s all absurd and we’re all here just to have a laugh while we still can!