Ultimately cancel culture is just part of a bigger thing, but a lot of people aren’t bright enough to use their brain and consider the bigger picture.
If you think about it, this didn’t start with cancel-culture. Think this through. You don’t like how society is, as you feel everyone is out to get you, well then the most logical thing to do is to try and gain control, as what you can control can’t hurt you.
So what you do is first you demoralize people, make them feel their culture is bad, has committed many crimes while ignoring all the good things about their culture. That’s been happening for a while in schools, pointing out the bad stuff like the racism, sexism and so on-which btw is often true, not saying it isn’t but in this case that’s irrelevant, the truth actually doesn’t matter at all but if it’s convenient to use, you use it.
You see from Stage 1 of the attack you can now move into Stage 2, where you have the people demoralized to the point of hating their own culture where you have the political correctness and so on where you can shame people for not toeing the line to the letter, but what you do is you make sure you slowly move the goalpost to the point where anyone says anything that can be considered the slight bit offensive is now an easy target. Even feminists like J.K Rowling might help you on their way, but when they start to say things that could be considered transphobic, no problem, you’ve now created a culture where anything that could be considered offensive to anyone which means you can shut just about everyone up.
So what you then do is wait for Stage 3, the crisis stage when something big and terrible happens in the world (this takes Palpatine levels of patience) and now not only do you have the majority of the population isolated from each other socially and/or crippled economically, and then you can just come in be the hero, and you know…quietly take over. Bring in the military in the name of protecting people from each other, as by this point everyone sees every other person as a potential threat you see. Then you’re at the final stage, where things that were considered normal before like white pieces moving first on the chess board have now been thrown into question, and as this insanity takes over the population, you are now the one in control of the world.
And you did it all purely by manipulation without a single shot being fired.
Think about it.