It’s actually exactly the same group psychology as the Salem witch trials. Humans have such a strong survival instinct to be accepted into coalitions that there is a “hive-mind” phenomenon, where decisions are made by the group dynamic. There are lots of examples of human behaviors that can only be explained as a group level adaptive dynamic,--- altruistic cooperation, altruistic punishment, moralizing perceived threat.
People who enabled it do care. They're true believers who thought they were helping children. Just like the activist elementary school teachers who are telling ever younger kids that boys and girls are not real. They genuinely believe it.
Reeducation needs to start at the top, but it won't happen with the current administration.
But how can anyone with two functioning brain cells believe this rubbish? Things seem to have spun completely out of control within a very short time. How can anyone think that mutilating kids is a good thing?
The same people that believe our planet is on fire and we would not survive another moment; that socialism did not bring suffering to millions of people; those who tell you that mental health professional and social workers will protect you from a violent armed criminal; and that skin color is the most important defining characteristic of a human being. Should I go on? And it is not just a few who are brainwashed, that’s the problem. Will we ever be able to return to normal? Or the normal has changed irrevocably and we just have to get with the program?
These trans people are celebrated by the mainstream media. Look at the fuss made when “Amy” Schneider won big bucks on Jeopardy. He/she was feted at the White House for his/her accomplishments. And then there is Will “Lia” Thomas, who couldn’t make it as a male swimmer so he/she decided to pretend to be a female swimmer. He/she towered over his/her teammates. And since he/she had already undergone puberty, his/her body was stronger than any of the female swimmers on the Penn Team. He/she was permitted to change in the female locker room where he no doubt had erections for all the females to see. The university did zero to protect its female swimmers and went along with this fantasy. Penn even nominated Will/Lia for female athlete of the year! Unbelievable!
I agree. To begin the push back I think we all need to use real language, not the "1984" newspeak. "Amy's" real name is actually Thomas. I am not going to call any men "she".
I'm in one hundred percent agreement with you and devoutly hope that we can end this madness soon, before the whole country goes completely off the rails.
True. I am trying to figure out why we have this phenomenon of a new belief system. I am hesitant to call it a new religion. But it is troublesome how many are unable to apply science, history, statistics, logic. Why all of a sudden we have fanatics who cancel you if you don’t use the pronoun they want you to use or don’t like the idea of gender fluidity? But that’s what progressive woke cultists are - worshippers. And because they are fanatics, the absurdity of their beliefs is not obvious to them. And theese warriors will not stop until you disappear- fired, silenced, sanctioned, fined, lost parental rights, jailed They would not understand that they are hurting children. They are well skilled in using social media, writing petitions, collecting votes, all with proper PC jargon. Sometimes I think they are humanoids.
I have a simple explanation. Religion is necessary. It serves human needs on a large scale and without it, or in the case of a society transitioning away from it's foundational religion, people go crazy seeking purpose, meaning and direction.
Very few craft their beliefs for themselves. Far more want the comfort and certainty of collective identity.
I agree with you. It’s the single greatest challenge of modernity. People are born into a society that is stabilized by a moral structure grounded in religious beliefs. Then they go to school and learn that Darwin discovered that human value systems are based on no reality that is independent of the social interactions of humans as an evolved species. The implicit logic of this is indeed that all cultural norms are relative, which devolves into the nihilism of Critical Theory that we are all living through at the moment.
I think that the only way forward is to embrace first principles, such as the Enlightenment values underlying constitutional democracies. I don’t see us going back to religious mythologies.
It all shows the effectiveness of brainwashing. If you frame this mutilation as "allowing children to be their authentic selves", it can appear as a good thing. True believers are the most dangerous people in the world.
Amen. Thank you for reminding us how true believers’ minds can be overtaken by Illogical garbage. The intellectualy blind are those who cannot see what is clear.
A lot of them may think that, but they do so in a narcissistic way. They do it so they can pat themselves on the back, and win acclaim from their like-minded friends. They obviously have no concern for the actual outcomes of the children that they are forcing these treatments on.
Agreed. There’s little thought or evidence and a lot of slogans and jargon coming from the trans cultists. It feels like the kids are just tools for the adults’ agenda.
I think most of those "true believers" we only trying to alleviate their own internal conflict by trying to reach a critical mass of similar individuals to then claim "normalcy".
If someone is truly trying to help, they provide options and allow choice; they don't force their choices on others.
The institutional capture highlighted in this article is the path that enabled this destruction.
This is not science — it’s modern day witchcraft.
God help the children whose lives have been ruined. And the people who enabled it simply don’t care. They got what they wanted.
Deeply disturbing….
It’s actually exactly the same group psychology as the Salem witch trials. Humans have such a strong survival instinct to be accepted into coalitions that there is a “hive-mind” phenomenon, where decisions are made by the group dynamic. There are lots of examples of human behaviors that can only be explained as a group level adaptive dynamic,--- altruistic cooperation, altruistic punishment, moralizing perceived threat.
People who enabled it do care. They're true believers who thought they were helping children. Just like the activist elementary school teachers who are telling ever younger kids that boys and girls are not real. They genuinely believe it.
Reeducation needs to start at the top, but it won't happen with the current administration.
But how can anyone with two functioning brain cells believe this rubbish? Things seem to have spun completely out of control within a very short time. How can anyone think that mutilating kids is a good thing?
The same people that believe our planet is on fire and we would not survive another moment; that socialism did not bring suffering to millions of people; those who tell you that mental health professional and social workers will protect you from a violent armed criminal; and that skin color is the most important defining characteristic of a human being. Should I go on? And it is not just a few who are brainwashed, that’s the problem. Will we ever be able to return to normal? Or the normal has changed irrevocably and we just have to get with the program?
These trans people are celebrated by the mainstream media. Look at the fuss made when “Amy” Schneider won big bucks on Jeopardy. He/she was feted at the White House for his/her accomplishments. And then there is Will “Lia” Thomas, who couldn’t make it as a male swimmer so he/she decided to pretend to be a female swimmer. He/she towered over his/her teammates. And since he/she had already undergone puberty, his/her body was stronger than any of the female swimmers on the Penn Team. He/she was permitted to change in the female locker room where he no doubt had erections for all the females to see. The university did zero to protect its female swimmers and went along with this fantasy. Penn even nominated Will/Lia for female athlete of the year! Unbelievable!
I agree. To begin the push back I think we all need to use real language, not the "1984" newspeak. "Amy's" real name is actually Thomas. I am not going to call any men "she".
I'm in one hundred percent agreement with you and devoutly hope that we can end this madness soon, before the whole country goes completely off the rails.
To be fair, I've never found a belief system that didn't embrace at least one absurd idea.
True. I am trying to figure out why we have this phenomenon of a new belief system. I am hesitant to call it a new religion. But it is troublesome how many are unable to apply science, history, statistics, logic. Why all of a sudden we have fanatics who cancel you if you don’t use the pronoun they want you to use or don’t like the idea of gender fluidity? But that’s what progressive woke cultists are - worshippers. And because they are fanatics, the absurdity of their beliefs is not obvious to them. And theese warriors will not stop until you disappear- fired, silenced, sanctioned, fined, lost parental rights, jailed They would not understand that they are hurting children. They are well skilled in using social media, writing petitions, collecting votes, all with proper PC jargon. Sometimes I think they are humanoids.
I have a simple explanation. Religion is necessary. It serves human needs on a large scale and without it, or in the case of a society transitioning away from it's foundational religion, people go crazy seeking purpose, meaning and direction.
Very few craft their beliefs for themselves. Far more want the comfort and certainty of collective identity.
I agree with you. It’s the single greatest challenge of modernity. People are born into a society that is stabilized by a moral structure grounded in religious beliefs. Then they go to school and learn that Darwin discovered that human value systems are based on no reality that is independent of the social interactions of humans as an evolved species. The implicit logic of this is indeed that all cultural norms are relative, which devolves into the nihilism of Critical Theory that we are all living through at the moment.
I think that the only way forward is to embrace first principles, such as the Enlightenment values underlying constitutional democracies. I don’t see us going back to religious mythologies.
It all shows the effectiveness of brainwashing. If you frame this mutilation as "allowing children to be their authentic selves", it can appear as a good thing. True believers are the most dangerous people in the world.
Dogma has always been the death of reason.
Amen. Thank you for reminding us how true believers’ minds can be overtaken by Illogical garbage. The intellectualy blind are those who cannot see what is clear.
A lot of them may think that, but they do so in a narcissistic way. They do it so they can pat themselves on the back, and win acclaim from their like-minded friends. They obviously have no concern for the actual outcomes of the children that they are forcing these treatments on.
You might like Rob Henderson’s writing on “Luxury Beliefs.” Just google or look up his Substack.
Agreed. There’s little thought or evidence and a lot of slogans and jargon coming from the trans cultists. It feels like the kids are just tools for the adults’ agenda.
I think most of those "true believers" we only trying to alleviate their own internal conflict by trying to reach a critical mass of similar individuals to then claim "normalcy".
If someone is truly trying to help, they provide options and allow choice; they don't force their choices on others.