I Was Born For This Moment
The single thing I’ve said over and over here is that the Western democracies are led by a class of semiconscious slogan chanters who are engaged in endless rounds of performative ritual. They don’t think or analyze or mean anything — they just say the words that other people load onto their beings like a shopper putting groceries in a cart.
So I feel like Christmas has come early, this year.
This is a hostage video. The masks, the pronouns, the “I am a woman sitting at the table in a blue suit,” the phrases about what they’re all doing there. There’s not a millisecond of authenticity or humanness to any of it. And by the way, the masks on a roomful of people who have been screened and tested and shot so full of mRNA products you could probably make new doses just by capturing their blood in a container.
The only thing missing is the land acknowledgement, which she would have said if someone had told her to.
“Elite” status in politics and culture is increasingly structured around a set of tics and hiccups and symbols you strap to your face. It’s a social disease, and the joylessness with which people perform this cycle is pretty obvious. My mask is for you, your mask is for me, I am a woman sitting at a table, my pronouns are….
Apologies for the flood of posts today, but HOW COULD I HELP IT if Kamala Harris is going to announce stiffly that she is a woman sitting at a table in a blue suit?
We are blessed to be living through perhaps the most fascinating laboratory experiment in history.
Those of us who for whatever reason have not been chosen (by god or circumstance) to be on Team Left get to be the control group, while the treatment group has agreed to inject the Critical Theory brain virus directly into their cerebrums.
Watch the real-time reactions! See them twist their lips into anxious pretzels trying to make sure they speak only regime-approved jargon! See what happens to someone whose every word thought & deed becomes about performances of public piety! See how many of the hypothetical marginalized can be referenced in a single sentence! Count how many rituals they can add to their professions of faith!
Side effects may include emotional incontinence, intellectual incoherence and possibly fatal levels of neuroticism.
Chris, we're on the same team but you missed some of the context for this video.
Harris was at a roundtable with disability advocates, including blind people. Harris was announcing this for the benefit of the blind people at the table.
In any other context, yes, this would have been bizarre.