Political Memes

So, the term is Mississippi self-awareness meaning a total lack thereof?

You skipped being a self-awarewolf and went straight to just being self-aware.

If I'm seeing this correctly, those are from ESS, aka, eye shield systems. I owned a pair of their ICE eye shields for a while.

They use a bullet resistant material for the "lenses" which can help reduce the impact of some projectiles, in the hope that it will save you from losing your vision from being shot in the face.

I believe their benchmark was some kind of shotgun round at a few meters, probably birdshot or other small/sprayed shot.

I bought them because they're roughly equivalent to most safety glasses, and I was doing work at the time that required such personal protective equipment. Mine came with three "lenses", one clear, one that was amber, and one they called "smoke" which appears to be what this character is wearing.

I liked the eyewear, but I seem to have lost mine over the years. I would buy it again simply for the durability, as driving glasses. However, since I'm not a kid anymore, and I have financial responsibilities, I can't really justify $100+ on eyewear unless it's a prescription or something else I require in order to live.

I assume this guy has ESS because he is a GUN fanatic. So he wears them while being unsafe with his GUNs.

Yeah, they sell hats made to work with any pair of sunglasses apparently... the brand is called Notch.

The spiral of silence.

Can't count the times I've had heard some of the most reactionary, vulgar, and bigoted nonsense from a NYC relative who would not stop to spit on a guy from Alabama if he was on fire. It's the same pig-ignorant racism, you've just got two groups of white people finding new ways to hate one another.

It’s very difficult to maintain an open mind. Groupthink is not a product of the right nor the left.

There's definitely merit to being self-aware. Understanding that you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree, you exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you, is important.

But I think there's a reflexive urge towards being contrarian (or, at least, presenting yourself as such) as a shield against the merits of collective wisdom. I see this shit from the more libertarian straining of Americana all the time. People who will insist free markets for heroin would be great, child pornography isn't hurting anyone, and why shouldn't personal ownership of nuclear weapons be legalized? People who will slap a hot stove just because you told them not to touch it.

The Joe Rogan "Mind so open everything fell out" type of person isn't any more admirable than the dogmatic conservative. In many instances, it just leads to the same stupid bullshit - one by being too stubborn to change the views hammered in by 40 years of AM radio and the other by taking bald face lies at face value.

Merely saying "Yes" after you heard a bunch of people say "No" isn't self-aware.

Well, he only has one hat

It's for sunglasses. I googled it once. I think if you wear your hat backwards with sunglasses they fit better.

Probably