Life Lessons from South Park

There was an episode of South Park a few years back where Cartman decided to freeze himself in snow because he couldn't bear to wait for the release of the Nintendo Wii. Unfortunately, he woke up to a future after thousands of years. In this future, there were 3 factions fighting a war despite all 3 factions being atheists. If I remember correctly, there was the UAL (universal atheist league), UAA (universal atheist alliance), and the AAA (allied atheist alliance). These three factions where fighting a war with each other because each faction had a different answer to the great question. Each faction knew they had the correct answer and the opposing sides were being illogical and crazy.

What was this great question then?

What shall we call ourselves? Clearly the otters had the most logical answer. Allied Atheist Alliance had three A's in the name. However, despite this trivial disagreement, these three factions thought it appropriate to go to war with one another and kill each other over the issue.

Throughout history, this is a common thing that happens. A movement becomes popular and gains lots of momentum. Inevitably, there will be some prominent figures in the movement and they will have criticisms and disagreements with other prominent figures of the movement. Afterwards, infighting ensues and then chaos breaks out.

Protestantism branched out from the catholic church. Feminists infiltrated the atheist movement and created atheism plus. MGTOW split off from the MRA movement. Different members of the LGBT movement will have arguments with each other to determine who is more oppressed than the other person. Hideo Kojima is having a falling out with Konami. North Korea and South Korea don't recognize each other as independent countries. Democrats and Republicans are convinced that the other side is responsible for destroying the country. The list can go on to infinity.

Whenever any group or movement starts becoming large or gains momentum, infighting will happen because of the vast number of opinions present. I heard a quote that if you get 3 guys together on the internet, you can't agree on what color the sky is.