Every time I see or hear “the science” I can’t help but think we have ourselves a new secular religion. It has its high priests and rituals, but lacks anything transcendent and hopeful. It just destroys.
Every time I see or hear “the science” I can’t help but think we have ourselves a new secular religion. It has its high priests and rituals, but lacks anything transcendent and hopeful. It just destroys.
There was an interview, I think it was Jordan Peterson, where regarding men being born in women’s bodies and vice versa, he asked, “What is it, exactly, that’s in the wrong body?” It’s a great question, which is not asked much. The obvious answer is that we’re talking about something like a soul. And, if we are, that makes gender ideology a religion--not science.
The term "the science" has been hijacked by social movements, starting with climate science and progressively getting more and more invasive up to and including the pandemic. Science used to be about hypotheses, experimentation, study and repeat, now it is about models, which are not science.
Shitty religion, 100%. And, it expands into every area taught in schools. Sure, permanent mutilation of children packs a gut visceral punch that is quite unique, but is it that much worse than the rest of the "education" inflicted on kids?
Is there an area of education that is NOT abusive? Let's see...
* being taught to feel guilty for things that happened centuries before you were born
* being taught you're a plague upon poor mother earth
* being taught that the very air your breathe will kill grandma
* being taught that regular mood swings are "syndromes", and being medicated for them with drugs --- (drugs that don't even pretend to knowing the mechanism whereby could result in any sort of "improvement")
medicalization of kids + constant brainwashing + total absence of useful learning. our school system is an abomination, "trans" is one very terrible aspect of it but perhaps not even the most abusive / worst one.
As a former teacher, I agree that the current educational system is dysfunctional, though I didn't know any teachers with the malicious intent you ascribe to them. For me, the problem is more one of bored, underpaid teachers turning out uneducated children who become dullard adults. But though I want change, it's hard for me to see how the burning of books (literally or figuratively) and the threatening of teachers takes us in the right direction.
It's another example of what David Burge has pointed out: the Left trashing a respected institution, and then trying to use the institution's reputation and symbolism to disguise its totalitarian impulses. Here, we have "science = muh authoriee-tay!"
Are you lonely? Do you have any friends? Have you ever had a civil, non-ad hominem conversation with anyone? Have you really come across so few good people? Does being right to the point of bitterness serve your life?
Kevin, Technically Catholic has a point..Not all Dems are grotesque and bloodthirsty (interesting descriptors..I'm surprised you didn't use Satanic..)
The end, and there will be one, of this dystopian madness of gender swapping amongst confused kids who can't even spell properly will come about when sane people from all points of the political spectrum come together. This is getting so ugly there'll be no choice.
If people of a particular political orientation don’t recognize that their political orientation is designed to produce hideous atrocities (they won’t) then the holding hands will just be a ceremonial interlude as we wait for their next atrocity.
The only thing that fixes this is when the non-political folks feel such extraordinary agony that the necessity of dealing with the aforementioned ‘political orientation’ is apparent.
I wonder if there’ll be any ‘non political folks’ left..In the end.
At some point, maybe when you and I are dead and buried, our twi divided political tribes will have to work together. To be ignorant of the other is, when all is said and done, ignorant.
There are not, nor were there, any witches, not in the sense of how and for what they were accused. These were not Wiccans. They were accused of having absurd, supernatural powers. It was a mass delusion, initiated by teenage girls who had been indoctrinated by religious fanatics (Puritans) with superstitions about witches and the devil since birth. They are also suspected of being manipulated by their parents to accuse other colonists, for revenge.
That is the problem with hysterical group think. It makes a determination, decides the parameters and definitions and rolls with it consequences be damned. IOW no room for eeason.
Isn’t the author a progressive who is risking her career and family finances to take this issue to the AG? Not all progressives are part of this!! Some of the staunchest advocates for sanity are progressives.
How about this? Treat allies like allies - at least until this madness is quashed.
Well I said “Democrats” and I understand that sounds like a term that includes everyone who votes for or has voted for a Democrat.
When I say “Democrats” I am mainly referring to the despicable perverts in Washington DC.
As an ‘LGBT’ woman, the author has been terrorized unremittingly by the most aggressive, widespread, and sophisticated propaganda campaign in the history of earth. Complete with the most underhanded and disgusting psychological manipulation and emotional exploitation tactics ever devised. As such I can easily forgive her for supporting the totalitarian fascist Democrat regime to one extent or another.
Straight white men who vote for Democrats, on the other hand, have no excuse because they have not been targets of the aforementioned psychological warfare, so they can all go straight to hell.
I don’t think all Democrats, particularly the voters, are in lockstep with their leadership. But what I’ve observed is that the Democrats who are funded by Soros, are not acting in the best interests of American citizens—whether it’s drugs, crime, gender dysphoria… I invite anyone who has common sense to detach from CORRUPT Democrats.
Thank you. We are all allies in fight against harming our country and our children. We need to do better than name-calling. Rise above. We can argue about govt debt and programs later.
There also isn’t an argument about the government programs. They are all psychotic and unsustainable. I’m not arguing with you about those either. I’m right and you’re wrong.
It’s the same lunatic shit from the same lunatic people.
“We can all retire at 65 with free food and choose our own genders because God was wrong to create rules!!!”
Nobody has to respect you and unite with you when you are proven to be evil and also dumb.
*You* have to submit to reality, Julia.
I’m not trying to dominate you and make you submit. Reality is dominating you.
Whoosh. I don't know if you meant it this way but That feels awfully aggressive! Especially directed to a person who essentially agrees with you. I'm arguing that you (we) can do better in our fight against the crazy. You (We) be less crazy. You be more noble, be More Full of integrity, Be More Kind, Be More full of truth. Defend Honor with Honor. Don't stoop to the level of idiocy and clownishness that they would have you be. The angry, Rash, untethered (not that you are at all) is EXACTLY the reaction that is expected. It becomes the weapon used against you. BE BETTER. BE KINDER. Be more heroic. Be the noble hero we all need you to be. (And we will follow your lead and do the same.)
Julia -- "Noble hero???" Your standards are low. Did you say the same about Trump? Why does this Kevin fellow get excused from the consequences of his arrogance and dismissal of women just because he is on your side? Or is it true that you are out of touch with reality, psychotic and unsustainable, a lunatic, not worthy of respect, evil and dumb? Is that sort of demeaning language about you OK just because he is on your side?
Yeesh. You are insulting. You aren’t encouraging communication. You’re just flat out calling me an idiot. Rise above, dude. Do better. Have good conversations. Don’t be a shitty human.
Julia -- And by the way, Kevin's email to you is classic narcissism. Some of the characteristics of a narcissist: "Believe they are superior to others and can only spend time with or be understood by equally special people." "lack of empathy" "demonstrations of arrogant and haughty behavior or attitudes" "It's everyone else's fault." "Frequently demeans, intimidates, bullies, or belittles others."
I think the the written texting/short answer way that we communicate online encourages people to be assholes.
Even you. What sort of arrogance does it take to assume that I don’t know who I’m talking to? Why are you coming down on me for being nice? What does that say about you, man-splainer? Thank you for assuming I’m an idiot.
I deal with personality disorders every day and I kindly shamed him.
I’d rather fight the assholery with kindness. And I know perfectly well that little paragraph I sent to him was straight out of fantasy land. But wouldn’t it be nice if we met each other (agree or disagree) with integrity and kindness instead of ad hominem low level fuckery? Wouldn’t that indicate some basic human respect?
I’m convinced that treating all people with respect while sticking with our discipline, kindness, courage, integrity etc -taking the high ground -and demanding it of our leaders is the only way through this crazy. We all need to do our own work, our own growth, do better in our own lives to make the big world better
Kevin, that is the first thing that came to mind after reading this article. IF we survive (Democrat leadership), history will look at this party of what I call asymmetric warfare criminals, murderers, child-abusers, war-mongers for the purpose of money laundering, election cheats, free-speech opponents, propaganda experts...as the same as the Nazis in Germany. And people will still wonder how supposedly ‘decent people’ allowed this to happen. The only way I see out of this is for the USA to break up into different countries. I would like to be free of the Democrat criminality.
I continue to believe we're beyond parties and labels.
This isn't politics it is pathology. Utopian ideologues funded and manipulated by megalomaniacal narcissism. (The "woke" push for the butchery of children [white children] and the hubris displayed by the monster's at Davos should serve to illustrate.) American tax dollar's and WEF/IMF grants fund the insanity. In short: International criminal finance with the help of our compromised and corrupt elected political leadership, is funding the social/cultural/economic collapse and looting of western culture. Over 10,000 Canadian's were euthanized last year by the State. Nearly 4,000 arrest's and prosecution's in the EU last year for thought and speech crime's. America is being looted. Free citizen's of our Constitutional Republic, and our Constitution are the last obstacles's to world domination and the reduction of human being's to serfdom. This is a class war run by racist's. We're not lost but we are under direct assault. Admitting to ourselves that it's happening is the first step forward. International totalitarian criminal finance doesn't like Nation States. It want's one world governance and "..absolute control over every living Soul..." Toxic Marxist feminism, now disguised as the D.E.I. (commissariat) in service to totalitarian criminal finance is the machine behind the anti-human insanity and butchery described in this article. All thing's human are the enemy of fascist's. All thing's human must be reduced to "thingdom" for the fascist's to succeed (Auschwitz). Mother, father, brother, sister, man, woman, community, all human love and connection must be severed for the monster's to win and install the totalitarianism they desire.
Hope? Yep. Without subscription journalism the recent Twitter/surveillance state revelations would not have happened. (Congress heard and had hearing's.) We are slowly recapturing the American national dialogue. Pelosi is gone and the new House seems to be willing and open to rational voice's. These times call for American unity. Fight the psyop or perish.
(An interesting comment here on Substack: The purpose of propaganda is not to convince you to believe it but to make you believe everyone else believe's it.)
That is not the purpose - which is much larger, and about power - but it *is* a tactic.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." --Theodore Dalrymple
Not quite, because most lobotomized people did not choose their lobotomy. Nor was the larger society pressured into celebrating their decision and their newly-lobotomized status.
Every time I see or hear “the science” I can’t help but think we have ourselves a new secular religion. It has its high priests and rituals, but lacks anything transcendent and hopeful. It just destroys.
There was an interview, I think it was Jordan Peterson, where regarding men being born in women’s bodies and vice versa, he asked, “What is it, exactly, that’s in the wrong body?” It’s a great question, which is not asked much. The obvious answer is that we’re talking about something like a soul. And, if we are, that makes gender ideology a religion--not science.
Seen elsewhere: "If your brain says one thing and your body says another, how do you know it's your body that is wrong?"
The term "the science" has been hijacked by social movements, starting with climate science and progressively getting more and more invasive up to and including the pandemic. Science used to be about hypotheses, experimentation, study and repeat, now it is about models, which are not science.
So well said, BL.
When I see someone Push this (Materialist) idea, I like to ask What Is The Atomic Weight of Beauty? Where is it fit on The Periodic Table?
It IS a new religion.
But it’s trying to convert the rest of us by intimidation and treats even of violence!
And especially concerning, it's a state sponsored one.
Big Pharma sponsored one
Same thing.
big pharma in our 800+ year old common law system can only do so much damage before being sued straight. The state has no such deterrent.
I beg to differ. Tort reform will be expanded to Pharma soon.
I still hope this is true, but I'm losing confidence daily.
You're both right.
It's literally just a shitty religion. Future generations will look back at what we're doing the same way we look back on the Salem witch trials
Shitty religion, 100%. And, it expands into every area taught in schools. Sure, permanent mutilation of children packs a gut visceral punch that is quite unique, but is it that much worse than the rest of the "education" inflicted on kids?
Is there an area of education that is NOT abusive? Let's see...
* being taught to feel guilty for things that happened centuries before you were born
* being taught you're a plague upon poor mother earth
* being taught that the very air your breathe will kill grandma
* being taught that regular mood swings are "syndromes", and being medicated for them with drugs --- (drugs that don't even pretend to knowing the mechanism whereby could result in any sort of "improvement")
medicalization of kids + constant brainwashing + total absence of useful learning. our school system is an abomination, "trans" is one very terrible aspect of it but perhaps not even the most abusive / worst one.
As a former teacher, I agree that the current educational system is dysfunctional, though I didn't know any teachers with the malicious intent you ascribe to them. For me, the problem is more one of bored, underpaid teachers turning out uneducated children who become dullard adults. But though I want change, it's hard for me to see how the burning of books (literally or figuratively) and the threatening of teachers takes us in the right direction.
I travel with and support neither "wing".
It's another example of what David Burge has pointed out: the Left trashing a respected institution, and then trying to use the institution's reputation and symbolism to disguise its totalitarian impulses. Here, we have "science = muh authoriee-tay!"
And in the same way we view the doctors who performed lobotomies on vulnerable people suffering from mental illness.
The perfect analogy.
The witches were mostly adults. This is way worse.
For my whole life I’ve been saying that Democrats are grotesque, bloodthirsty, pagan atrocities and this has really never been received well.
Now that Democrats are doing Josef Mengele out in the open, I am looking forward to hearing a lot of
“Yeah but you didn’t know they were going to do this.”
Are you lonely? Do you have any friends? Have you ever had a civil, non-ad hominem conversation with anyone? Have you really come across so few good people? Does being right to the point of bitterness serve your life?
Kevin, Technically Catholic has a point..Not all Dems are grotesque and bloodthirsty (interesting descriptors..I'm surprised you didn't use Satanic..)
The end, and there will be one, of this dystopian madness of gender swapping amongst confused kids who can't even spell properly will come about when sane people from all points of the political spectrum come together. This is getting so ugly there'll be no choice.
Good luck holding hands.
If people of a particular political orientation don’t recognize that their political orientation is designed to produce hideous atrocities (they won’t) then the holding hands will just be a ceremonial interlude as we wait for their next atrocity.
The only thing that fixes this is when the non-political folks feel such extraordinary agony that the necessity of dealing with the aforementioned ‘political orientation’ is apparent.
I wonder if there’ll be any ‘non political folks’ left..In the end.
At some point, maybe when you and I are dead and buried, our twi divided political tribes will have to work together. To be ignorant of the other is, when all is said and done, ignorant.
There are not, nor were there, any witches, not in the sense of how and for what they were accused. These were not Wiccans. They were accused of having absurd, supernatural powers. It was a mass delusion, initiated by teenage girls who had been indoctrinated by religious fanatics (Puritans) with superstitions about witches and the devil since birth. They are also suspected of being manipulated by their parents to accuse other colonists, for revenge.
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-salem-witch-trials/
That is the problem with hysterical group think. It makes a determination, decides the parameters and definitions and rolls with it consequences be damned. IOW no room for eeason.
Hey! Don’t lump pagans in with democrats. Lol.
Tapping the brakes for a second....
Isn’t the author a progressive who is risking her career and family finances to take this issue to the AG? Not all progressives are part of this!! Some of the staunchest advocates for sanity are progressives.
How about this? Treat allies like allies - at least until this madness is quashed.
Well I said “Democrats” and I understand that sounds like a term that includes everyone who votes for or has voted for a Democrat.
When I say “Democrats” I am mainly referring to the despicable perverts in Washington DC.
As an ‘LGBT’ woman, the author has been terrorized unremittingly by the most aggressive, widespread, and sophisticated propaganda campaign in the history of earth. Complete with the most underhanded and disgusting psychological manipulation and emotional exploitation tactics ever devised. As such I can easily forgive her for supporting the totalitarian fascist Democrat regime to one extent or another.
Straight white men who vote for Democrats, on the other hand, have no excuse because they have not been targets of the aforementioned psychological warfare, so they can all go straight to hell.
😂😂
I don’t think all Democrats, particularly the voters, are in lockstep with their leadership. But what I’ve observed is that the Democrats who are funded by Soros, are not acting in the best interests of American citizens—whether it’s drugs, crime, gender dysphoria… I invite anyone who has common sense to detach from CORRUPT Democrats.
Thank you. We are all allies in fight against harming our country and our children. We need to do better than name-calling. Rise above. We can argue about govt debt and programs later.
There is no “we”. We aren’t allies.
There also isn’t an argument about the government programs. They are all psychotic and unsustainable. I’m not arguing with you about those either. I’m right and you’re wrong.
It’s the same lunatic shit from the same lunatic people.
“We can all retire at 65 with free food and choose our own genders because God was wrong to create rules!!!”
Nobody has to respect you and unite with you when you are proven to be evil and also dumb.
*You* have to submit to reality, Julia.
I’m not trying to dominate you and make you submit. Reality is dominating you.
Whoosh. I don't know if you meant it this way but That feels awfully aggressive! Especially directed to a person who essentially agrees with you. I'm arguing that you (we) can do better in our fight against the crazy. You (We) be less crazy. You be more noble, be More Full of integrity, Be More Kind, Be More full of truth. Defend Honor with Honor. Don't stoop to the level of idiocy and clownishness that they would have you be. The angry, Rash, untethered (not that you are at all) is EXACTLY the reaction that is expected. It becomes the weapon used against you. BE BETTER. BE KINDER. Be more heroic. Be the noble hero we all need you to be. (And we will follow your lead and do the same.)
Julia -- "Noble hero???" Your standards are low. Did you say the same about Trump? Why does this Kevin fellow get excused from the consequences of his arrogance and dismissal of women just because he is on your side? Or is it true that you are out of touch with reality, psychotic and unsustainable, a lunatic, not worthy of respect, evil and dumb? Is that sort of demeaning language about you OK just because he is on your side?
Yeesh. You are insulting. You aren’t encouraging communication. You’re just flat out calling me an idiot. Rise above, dude. Do better. Have good conversations. Don’t be a shitty human.
Julia -- And by the way, Kevin's email to you is classic narcissism. Some of the characteristics of a narcissist: "Believe they are superior to others and can only spend time with or be understood by equally special people." "lack of empathy" "demonstrations of arrogant and haughty behavior or attitudes" "It's everyone else's fault." "Frequently demeans, intimidates, bullies, or belittles others."
I think the the written texting/short answer way that we communicate online encourages people to be assholes.
Even you. What sort of arrogance does it take to assume that I don’t know who I’m talking to? Why are you coming down on me for being nice? What does that say about you, man-splainer? Thank you for assuming I’m an idiot.
I deal with personality disorders every day and I kindly shamed him.
I’d rather fight the assholery with kindness. And I know perfectly well that little paragraph I sent to him was straight out of fantasy land. But wouldn’t it be nice if we met each other (agree or disagree) with integrity and kindness instead of ad hominem low level fuckery? Wouldn’t that indicate some basic human respect?
I’m convinced that treating all people with respect while sticking with our discipline, kindness, courage, integrity etc -taking the high ground -and demanding it of our leaders is the only way through this crazy. We all need to do our own work, our own growth, do better in our own lives to make the big world better
I can't tell . . . are you defending the noble hero? There are more important things than politics.
Kevin, that is the first thing that came to mind after reading this article. IF we survive (Democrat leadership), history will look at this party of what I call asymmetric warfare criminals, murderers, child-abusers, war-mongers for the purpose of money laundering, election cheats, free-speech opponents, propaganda experts...as the same as the Nazis in Germany. And people will still wonder how supposedly ‘decent people’ allowed this to happen. The only way I see out of this is for the USA to break up into different countries. I would like to be free of the Democrat criminality.
Meanwhile, it is your Republican Jesus who is on the way to jail.
I want to go with Daddy. 😉
I continue to believe we're beyond parties and labels.
This isn't politics it is pathology. Utopian ideologues funded and manipulated by megalomaniacal narcissism. (The "woke" push for the butchery of children [white children] and the hubris displayed by the monster's at Davos should serve to illustrate.) American tax dollar's and WEF/IMF grants fund the insanity. In short: International criminal finance with the help of our compromised and corrupt elected political leadership, is funding the social/cultural/economic collapse and looting of western culture. Over 10,000 Canadian's were euthanized last year by the State. Nearly 4,000 arrest's and prosecution's in the EU last year for thought and speech crime's. America is being looted. Free citizen's of our Constitutional Republic, and our Constitution are the last obstacles's to world domination and the reduction of human being's to serfdom. This is a class war run by racist's. We're not lost but we are under direct assault. Admitting to ourselves that it's happening is the first step forward. International totalitarian criminal finance doesn't like Nation States. It want's one world governance and "..absolute control over every living Soul..." Toxic Marxist feminism, now disguised as the D.E.I. (commissariat) in service to totalitarian criminal finance is the machine behind the anti-human insanity and butchery described in this article. All thing's human are the enemy of fascist's. All thing's human must be reduced to "thingdom" for the fascist's to succeed (Auschwitz). Mother, father, brother, sister, man, woman, community, all human love and connection must be severed for the monster's to win and install the totalitarianism they desire.
Hope? Yep. Without subscription journalism the recent Twitter/surveillance state revelations would not have happened. (Congress heard and had hearing's.) We are slowly recapturing the American national dialogue. Pelosi is gone and the new House seems to be willing and open to rational voice's. These times call for American unity. Fight the psyop or perish.
(An interesting comment here on Substack: The purpose of propaganda is not to convince you to believe it but to make you believe everyone else believe's it.)
That is not the purpose - which is much larger, and about power - but it *is* a tactic.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." --Theodore Dalrymple
Or lobotomies
Not quite, because most lobotomized people did not choose their lobotomy. Nor was the larger society pressured into celebrating their decision and their newly-lobotomized status.
Or 1970s cults, requiring “re-programming” to be able to break free.
An absolutely PERFECT analogy. Stealing.
The analogy between lobotomy and 'gender care' was also made in detail in 'Lobotomy: the Rise and Fall of a Miracle Cure' in early 2017:
https://4thwavenow.com/2017/02/10/lobotomy-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-miracle-cure/
Six years ago. But not in the NYT or other MSM, who relentlessly cheered on the newer medical atrocity, and still do.
Amazing. Thanks for the link
You're very welcome.
The more people who recognize the parallels, the better.
Bingo.