Becoming a teacher more so than a parent showed me how little adults actually control. As a kid, i always thought our misbehavior was to be limited by an infinitely increasing severity of consequences in the institutions of education, but now I see that there was absolutely nothing stopping me from being 10x the menace I already was.
As a teacher now, you are forced to play this game where you pretend that you have way more power than you actually do. I remember once calling the office because there was a fight going on. The secretary told me everyone was occupied and there was nobody to send. I had to pretend like someone was coming and diffuse the situation before the kids could figure out nobody was coming. I got back on the phone and pretended to call down again saying it was ok and they didnt need to send anyone.
I suspect our elites are in a similar situation. This trump ballot cancelling stuff may be a kind of power play, but really it is a sign of desperation. They wouldn’t be “calling the office” so to speak, if they had things ubder control.
Our elites dont have the moral mandate or power to actually solve these problems. Ban abortion to raise the birth rate? See what happens. Cut social security to balance the budget? Cut welfare? See what happens. Actually enforce the border? Mass migration has been a part of central and south american culture for decades now. There would probably need to be a mass casualty event for attitudes on the ground to change substantially. Want to ban drugs? Privatize education?
This could be a white pill or a black pill depending on your analysis but i think the ball is in our court -- the little guys. We need to create the kinds of communities and family bonds that will get us through these worsening circumstances.
There is a lot of argument about whether progressives really believe what they say, or whether it's just social pieties they regurgitate to signal being high class. From my experience talking with progs, these don't seem to be conflicting paradigms as much as basically the same thing for most. While there are some people who can separate the two, the average prog sees elite consensus as true by the very nature that it's elite consensus.
The rhetoric of saying, "why does it matter?" makes sense, since it's simultaneously a real belief and just a linguistic piety. In other words, solipsism all the way down.
Outstanding work! Mammoth, dinosauric, even! May well have saved me an article too as you really nail all the salient points here, and with South Park and Starship Troopers refs to boot haha
Man, I really had a f'ing blast reading this article.
It is just very very perceptive. For me it actually describes how this beast "works", i.e. what is the actual mechanism around good intentions, downplaying problems and evading responsibility, metastasing of the problems, etc; in the same way as Atlas Shrugged for me explains the aspects of the competency crisis which are more general than the D.I.E. link, that is, it explains its essence. The psychology behind the good progressive's viewpoint, the assumption that there surely is some adult correcting things, is completely true. I literally had this conversation only yesterday, things can't get out of hand because the judicial system is very slow and therefore crazyness just doesn't seep into it that easily.
I may be off but I am reminded of the recent J Burden piece tyranny of just https://jburden.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-just, you're both touching on this progressive tactic/reflex of trivializing things to avoid having to confront them
This is the best distillation of what's wrong with Obama era liberalism that I've read. In short, we can do what we want because surely there are "adults in the room" somewhere
The trans issue, at its face value, is really a non-issue though. Like communism, it's self-evidently nonsensical. It's only an issue when big money is being pumped into it, and people respond to big money. So the actors defending it don't need to be entertained seriously, especially not fringe actors like journalists. What really matters is what is the logic behind this sickness, who is pumping the money and for what gain? For communism, we have a lead in the Fabian Society, and many of the Fabians wrote extensively about the logic behind this social technology. You just have translate from the British and remember you're listening to the guys who set up the first concentration camps, sold fleets full of opium to Chinese and used to sell Irish as slaves. But you can open up Bertrand Russell and in the 1920s he plainly writes what will happen to Russia and China later in the 20th century. I'll allow myself to remind you that Britain was the world's hegemon at the time and was (still is) a feudal society with an extensive tradition of secret societies. Imagine that if instead of studying up on the Fabians and four Internationals, the history of socialism in Prussia and Austria, you were to sit down and debunk the complete works of Marx, Lenin and whatever came out of Stalin's desk any given week. You'd be wasting your time, reputation and energy on nonsense. It would be like putting Earth at the center of the Solar system, not technically wrong but completely unusable.
The "trans" issue exists because big money is being pumped into it. Women are being raped by men in women's prisons, girls are being attacked in girls' bathrooms by men, children are being mutilated, all of society is being upended and language is being destroyed to cater to this.
It's a "non-issue"? Billions of dollars in the medical industry and big pharma used to target children is a "non-issue"?
You're doing exactly what he pointed to in the article. "Why do you even care, man?"
And wtf does Communism have to do with anything? You sound deluded. Get off the internet and be quiet. Why are there so many crazy males online?
Just re-read what I wrote carefully every other week and eventually the answers to your questions might emerge from beyond that thick fog of pathos of yours.
Communism (read Bolshevism) is a creation by the same people for the same purpose, and it certainly seems more potent than trannyism in causing mass deaths.
“Now an entirely new generation of our ruling class thinks anything less than an open border supported by a Nordic-style welfare state built on a financial system buoyed by printed money, is a crime against humanity itself.”
They're just men. Men in wigs, men in makeup, men in skirts, even men who pass (very, very few do).
There's no special type of woman who's actually a man.
They're men--adult human males. They need to be told NO, beginning with their doctors. That prevents every problem from occurring in the first place, from bathrooms to sports to prisons to language to workplaces to schools.
The whole thing is a fraud. "Trans" does not exist.
This is making me think about Millennial “adulting is hard” memes and the personality type that came of age during Y2K… as a Millennial, there’s something really wrong with us.
These problems are small, but so am I. It is my job to care about the small things.
Due to the over-use of profanity in this article, I am not sending it out via e-mail.
Becoming a teacher more so than a parent showed me how little adults actually control. As a kid, i always thought our misbehavior was to be limited by an infinitely increasing severity of consequences in the institutions of education, but now I see that there was absolutely nothing stopping me from being 10x the menace I already was.
As a teacher now, you are forced to play this game where you pretend that you have way more power than you actually do. I remember once calling the office because there was a fight going on. The secretary told me everyone was occupied and there was nobody to send. I had to pretend like someone was coming and diffuse the situation before the kids could figure out nobody was coming. I got back on the phone and pretended to call down again saying it was ok and they didnt need to send anyone.
I suspect our elites are in a similar situation. This trump ballot cancelling stuff may be a kind of power play, but really it is a sign of desperation. They wouldn’t be “calling the office” so to speak, if they had things ubder control.
Our elites dont have the moral mandate or power to actually solve these problems. Ban abortion to raise the birth rate? See what happens. Cut social security to balance the budget? Cut welfare? See what happens. Actually enforce the border? Mass migration has been a part of central and south american culture for decades now. There would probably need to be a mass casualty event for attitudes on the ground to change substantially. Want to ban drugs? Privatize education?
This could be a white pill or a black pill depending on your analysis but i think the ball is in our court -- the little guys. We need to create the kinds of communities and family bonds that will get us through these worsening circumstances.
There is a lot of argument about whether progressives really believe what they say, or whether it's just social pieties they regurgitate to signal being high class. From my experience talking with progs, these don't seem to be conflicting paradigms as much as basically the same thing for most. While there are some people who can separate the two, the average prog sees elite consensus as true by the very nature that it's elite consensus.
The rhetoric of saying, "why does it matter?" makes sense, since it's simultaneously a real belief and just a linguistic piety. In other words, solipsism all the way down.
Outstanding work! Mammoth, dinosauric, even! May well have saved me an article too as you really nail all the salient points here, and with South Park and Starship Troopers refs to boot haha
Man, I really had a f'ing blast reading this article.
It is just very very perceptive. For me it actually describes how this beast "works", i.e. what is the actual mechanism around good intentions, downplaying problems and evading responsibility, metastasing of the problems, etc; in the same way as Atlas Shrugged for me explains the aspects of the competency crisis which are more general than the D.I.E. link, that is, it explains its essence. The psychology behind the good progressive's viewpoint, the assumption that there surely is some adult correcting things, is completely true. I literally had this conversation only yesterday, things can't get out of hand because the judicial system is very slow and therefore crazyness just doesn't seep into it that easily.
Great work.
I may be off but I am reminded of the recent J Burden piece tyranny of just https://jburden.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-just, you're both touching on this progressive tactic/reflex of trivializing things to avoid having to confront them
Yeah I think it’s slightly different but similar
The eunuchs are ever the ruin of the state.
This is the best distillation of what's wrong with Obama era liberalism that I've read. In short, we can do what we want because surely there are "adults in the room" somewhere
Civilization ends not with a scream, but with a snide "How does this effect you personally?"
The trans issue, at its face value, is really a non-issue though. Like communism, it's self-evidently nonsensical. It's only an issue when big money is being pumped into it, and people respond to big money. So the actors defending it don't need to be entertained seriously, especially not fringe actors like journalists. What really matters is what is the logic behind this sickness, who is pumping the money and for what gain? For communism, we have a lead in the Fabian Society, and many of the Fabians wrote extensively about the logic behind this social technology. You just have translate from the British and remember you're listening to the guys who set up the first concentration camps, sold fleets full of opium to Chinese and used to sell Irish as slaves. But you can open up Bertrand Russell and in the 1920s he plainly writes what will happen to Russia and China later in the 20th century. I'll allow myself to remind you that Britain was the world's hegemon at the time and was (still is) a feudal society with an extensive tradition of secret societies. Imagine that if instead of studying up on the Fabians and four Internationals, the history of socialism in Prussia and Austria, you were to sit down and debunk the complete works of Marx, Lenin and whatever came out of Stalin's desk any given week. You'd be wasting your time, reputation and energy on nonsense. It would be like putting Earth at the center of the Solar system, not technically wrong but completely unusable.
The "trans" issue exists because big money is being pumped into it. Women are being raped by men in women's prisons, girls are being attacked in girls' bathrooms by men, children are being mutilated, all of society is being upended and language is being destroyed to cater to this.
It's a "non-issue"? Billions of dollars in the medical industry and big pharma used to target children is a "non-issue"?
You're doing exactly what he pointed to in the article. "Why do you even care, man?"
And wtf does Communism have to do with anything? You sound deluded. Get off the internet and be quiet. Why are there so many crazy males online?
Just re-read what I wrote carefully every other week and eventually the answers to your questions might emerge from beyond that thick fog of pathos of yours.
You are mentally ill and shouldn't even be allowed online.
Communism (read Bolshevism) is a creation by the same people for the same purpose, and it certainly seems more potent than trannyism in causing mass deaths.
The tiny but destructive
term "cis" is so small that it creeps in, carrying it's mind virus load, to an enlightened essay like this, proving the insidiousness of the problem.
“Now an entirely new generation of our ruling class thinks anything less than an open border supported by a Nordic-style welfare state built on a financial system buoyed by printed money, is a crime against humanity itself.”
And powered by windmills/solar panels.
There's no such thing as "trans" women.
They're just men. Men in wigs, men in makeup, men in skirts, even men who pass (very, very few do).
There's no special type of woman who's actually a man.
They're men--adult human males. They need to be told NO, beginning with their doctors. That prevents every problem from occurring in the first place, from bathrooms to sports to prisons to language to workplaces to schools.
The whole thing is a fraud. "Trans" does not exist.
This is making me think about Millennial “adulting is hard” memes and the personality type that came of age during Y2K… as a Millennial, there’s something really wrong with us.