My argument is not “the news media lies,” or “there’s a lot of misleading discourse.” My argument is that whole overlapping layers of high-status America — in academia, in media, and in politics — are psychotic, fully detached from reality and living in their own bizarre mental construction of a fake world. I don’t mean this figuratively, or as colorful hyperbole. I mean that the top layers of our most important institutions are actually, literally populated by people who are insane, who have cultivated a complete mental descent through the looking glass.
I read it sitting in my house, but I write a Substack myself and I always seem to find most of my typos after I push the Send button, so I feel your pain. Well written and on point. Our “elites” are truly insane.
"Racist beliefs are fringe baseless hateful conspiracy theories that have always been rejected by society and have never been accepted by any intelligent, educated people ever."
But also,
"Until five minutes ago society was deeply racist, and the legacy of that bigotry survives today in the form of implicit bias and structural racism. Here's a posthumous cancellation list of towering intellectual and artistic minds that you are no longer allowed to admire because they were racists."
Indeed. Not even undergraduate level thinking, and I won't insult the high school debaters either. And to think these are the people who would burn you at the stake for being misogynistic, homophobic racist devils for questioning their claptrap.
“CRT doesn’t exist” -> “CRT is a highly nuanced, esoteric discipline only taught in the most advanced of grad universities” -> “It is critical that it be included in every elementary school’s curriculum”
An amazing height piss, Mr. Raven. But your comment reminds me how much I miss pre-modern parlance, when songs like "Put your head on my shoulderrrr" played everywhere because if nothing else there'd be lots of extra bite to telling our elite scolds to fuck off and die.
Our elites gain and maintain elite status mostly because they are truffle pigs of conformity, always guaranteed to sniff out which new morals and narratives all the cool kids need to have to maintain their lives behind the velvet rope.
And now the elite has coalesced into a single entity with a single purpose and a single strategy: all their perceived political opponents—starting of course w Trump but also including DeSantis, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and now their newest Emmanuel Goldstein, Elon Musk—need to be attacked and smeared by any and all means possible: from digging into their personal histories to siccing the Feds on them to concoting the most baroque guilt-by-association slanders, most of them based on the Left's superweapon, the Bigotry Accusation, which is the scarlet letter of our time.
And while of course they do this to destroy the intended target and have them banished from society, they really do it mostly "pour encourager les autres", meaning to let the rest of us know that if they can inflict this much damage on the rich and famous, they could inflict much more on a civilian.
The story of the Trump era is the institutional Left claiming that his election would usher in a fascist dictatorship where the govt is weaponized against its opponents, where civil liberties are crushed, where the free press is replaced by a regime media, and where with one wrong word or vote would put you in danger—and then the Left fulfilling all their fears and becoming an incarnation of all the things they claim to hate.
No price is too big to pay (especially when someone else is paying it) for the unveiling of our True Authentic Self™, which makes you both martyr and savior all in one, and which in our therapeutic age takes the place of achievement and/or character.
Yes...that's the irony....in the sense they are so lacking in self awareness that their narcissism is exposed by papering over their savior complex with cool kid martyrdom.
But, yes overt to those who haven't had their self awareness lobotomized.
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Thank goodness Goebbels didn’t have Twitter. The Holocaust would have been so much worse without the safe and effective state-controlled media propaganda. 🙄
thats kind of what I am worried about but yes, things were so peachy keen before Twitter X (very sarcastic). Humans seem to find a way to be hateful arseh*les if thats what they want to be.
No, just pointing out that people have always gotten their discriminatory viewpoints out. And the irony of state-controlled media (like Elon Musk freed Twitter from) is that it is particularly devastating to the groups this historian purports to care about.
"Our institutions have been consumed with madness, and they need to be burned to the ground." The madness comes from the realization deep down that they are rapidly becoming irrelevant and we'd all be better off if they were burned down. But you're right. There is no other way to describe this than psychosis.
Culture shift could begin with media literacy-- questioning the predominant Club of Rome / Limits to Growth belief system in which the human race is a problem which must be controlled and manipulated to be "fixed".
Every candidate in the last election where I am espoused 'gender affirmative care', 'climate change action' and the whole agenda as priorities. It is laughable and tragic at the same time, in equal measure. For the sake of the planet is a marketing ploy picked up and carried by politicians who know, in their core, that they are impostors.
If is ain’t psychosis it’s narcissism. She tries to be so profound that she can’t recognize her own doublethink, and she has spent so much of her adult life surrounding herself with herself that she now has neither the environmental, intellectual, nor emotional capability of asking a trusted colleague for constructive criticism of her output. Any unsolicited critique is considered physical violence - and their therapists are selected to enable this arrogance as self-esteem.
I just did a bit of recon around Harvard the past few days, in and around Harvard Square. Overheard many conversations. The normal, typical human conversing, of course. But a whole lot of affirming and congratulatory discourse on this or that person helped this or that social justice reengineering of society enlightenment. They'd say all the rightspeak and the other person would validate and praise them for it. Back and forth. Back and forth. Multiple conversations eavesdropped on that fit this description. They're truly being trained, groomed, to be self- righteous moralizing (their morals) completely vacuous and incapable of independent thought people. Who believe they are the right and proper leaders of the world, doing goodly deeds remaking mankind into their vision they have for us. That's the training ground for future world leaders, as they imagine themselves. Pathetic people too entitled to know how loathed they really are. They've got a big surprise coming.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.’ C.S. Lewis
Indeed. One of the great tragedies we have seen in many cultures throughout history. The next generation of elites superbly trained for a world that no longer exists.
That is where they will be at age 50. By then no one will care about your pronouns or your perceived gender. What they will care about is securing their next meal or manually fixing their car.
Yah but I remember my college days and we all thought we knew the answers to every fucking thing and talked incessantly about it and then went to hear folk singers sing about it. After a while it just got boring. And then you had to find a job.
I remember my college days, too. At a major research university, one of the "public ivy's." Yes, that progression.
In all of the research and discovery of agendas, who's who's, the intersections of science, medicine, psychology, politics, power and influence I've found Harvard and MIT academia and alumni at the center more than half the time. Some Stanford, some Johns Hopkins, other Ivy's like Yale, Penn and Columbia on the media propaganda development side and lots of other smaller institutions that government agencies draw from. But Harvard, that institution is an unrivaled factory of malevolence.
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While I was in Boston I went to the Massachusetts State Capitol and sat in on a public hearing of the Joint Committee on Public Health. And heard this testimony I found shocking. And so will most people outside of the professional health community. The need for legislation to prohibit nonconsensual intimate examinations of anesthetized or unconscious patients.
Yes. Up to 90% of medical students perform gynecological and other intimate examinations WITHOUT the consent of patients who are under anesthesia or otherwise unconscious, for completely unrelated surgical practices! For real, testimony by doctors who've been there, done that, and remain creeped out about it even though most of their colleagues are unfazed by it. Yes. If you go under in these hospitals, at Harvard Medical School and medical schools and hospitals that allow students in the OR across the country you are at risk of being subjected to being physically violated, sexually assaulted by experienced doctors and medical students!! Standard operating procedure!
Because it's for a greater good, training new medical professionals. It's always for a greater good when medical practitioners violate our bodily autonomy. Masks. Mandatory vaccinations. You name it.
THIS mentality is how and why the medical profession could become as abusive as we've experienced it since 2020. Obviously it's been this way for decades. We're just now beginning to realize how bad it's gotten. Remember, these are the very same people who we're told are the "experts we must follow." And when we challenge their medical edicts we're shouted down, mocked and silenced because they're trained doctors and we're not.
Wear the damn mask! Get the damn jabs! Boosters! You selfish freeDUM lovers! It's not about you it's about others! For the greater good! These people. These same people. That you're told you must trust and follow. With their already severely compromised ethics, that including rationalizing and justifying rape and sexual assault..."for a greater good." I don't think so.
This needs to be shared wide and far. It's fascinating what you can learn when you bother showing up at public hearings on public health policy. They actually do tell us. But when trees fall in the forest with nobody there to see...
Care to transcribe the testimony presented in this ten-minute hearing, Transcriber B?
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Thanks, dear Freedom Fox. I am very glad to see that someone is trying to get some sunlight on this, and to protect patients.
I knew about this outrageous practise in teaching hospitals some years ago-- I actually read about it, if I recall correctly, in the WSJ. So it happens. No one wants to talk about it. Most people cannot even believe it happens.
I wish I could transcribe that, but it's outside my purview; I do covid-related only.
Yes. At a certain point such narcissism does break with reality. Which is a definition of psychosis.
But just think. If I use a time machine to travel back. I walk into a psych clinic of say, 25 years ago or 50 or 75 years ago and I say I want to cut off my body parts to change genders or dress as an animal in public because I have a hamster persona and that the world is on fire if I don’t collect all the plastic and glass I can and America was formed in 1619. And I am guilty and distraught at my privilege and feel I must be punished.
What if something is actually wrong, I mean in the sense of: they all got sick somehow, really actually sick. Not just “wow do these people suck or what “ but more like in a pod people way we have not figured out. Because I see just so many smart people thinking and behaving in ways I am sure they once possessed the cognitive capacity to discern to be silly. I am not being snarky funny. I wonder how I ought to proceed if I were simply to assume that were true. Like I am on a super tanker and most of the crew has sudden onset dementia or something
YES. I keep thinking this. I am not above average intelligence, and yet I read this stuff and I cannot wrap my head around what has happened to these people’s ability to THINK LIKE A HUMAN. Like formerly intelligent people like Naomi Klein writing an entire book about how much she hates Naomi Wolf. Did the vaccine cause brain damage? Like this can’t be a real evolution of people. Can it??
When you are used to privilege, equal treatment can feel like prejudice.
Many leading lights in society have been artificially propped up to promote an agenda they may be unaware of. When one of your own leaves the reservation and questions things it can make the rest question why they are there.
Affirmative action has the same effect. Am I just here to prop up some agenda?
When you run with the herd, you can't just stop and scratch your ear, but for the little critters in the forest, every sound might be serious. Situational awareness will save you more effectively than being one with the crowd.
Also, remember how in *The Faerie Queene,* Spenser keeps doing that thing where he says, "This particular character was so completely nasty that I can't even bring myself to describe her," and then... describing her, right down to the excrement under her tail? Maybe Prof. L thinks this is the way logic and reason work, not just an interesting sixteenth-century literary technique. "He was such a nut thar no one listened to him!" ... <describes all the people who listened to him>
I can’t do this kind of differential analysis of long-winded leftist propaganda because the bullshit meter in my mind keeps pegging and shutting down the process. But I sincerely compliment those of you with the intellectual constitution to wade through this BS.
And I agree completely that the U.S. has built an over-inflated aristocracy of morally vacuous ppl who will say and do anything to buttress their tenuous hold on their position in that aristocracy. I just had a flash of “Chauncey Gardner” talking with POTUS and a plutocrat:
President "Bobby": Mr. Gardner, do
you agree with Ben, or do you think
that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
Chance the Gardener: “[G]rowth has its seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.
Benjamin Rand: I think what our
insightful young friend is saying is
that we welcome the inevitable
seasons of nature, but we're upset by the seasons of our economy.
"This is one of our top history professors..." Not OUR history top professors. One of THEIR top history professors. They are making it ever more obvious that we live under the boot of a hostile, alien "elite".
She makes me ashamed to have been part of the profession I once loved.. I never thought I'd say this, but yes, these institutions must be burned to the ground.
The three legged-stool of insanity - Covid hysteria, Gorebull Warning, and trannyism - that's being relentlessly pushed on us by those with the power, money, and influence show that TPTB are in fact completely insane, out of touch with the most basic elements of the reality in which we all live.
if there's one common trait that's shared among the successful profs and journalists I've known, it's a constant crippling status anxiety, aka a perpetual fear that they may be on the wrong side of a popular issue or that they may appear in public after having uttered something other members of their cohort disagree with (esp when the issue has any poss moral aspect).
it is this deep insecurity that makes them so conformist and averse to free thinking, the fear that they may be ejected from the faculty lounge they've spent their entire lives dreaming of.
public scholars are so susceptible to social trends that even Zizek and Dawkins campaigned for aggressive vaccine mandates—this really blew my mind
Remarkable number of typos in this one, but I think they're all fixed now. And I did write this in a bar, so.
I read it in a bar so I forgave all the typos. Cheers!
A wise choice of venues!
I wished I was in a bar.
LOL! Indeed.
You needed every last drop in that bar just to pull you through dissecting the headache that is Jill LeDerp.
I think this one probably needs a few stiff drinks to be palatable, so good form on your part.
And it is high time the emperor's nakedness was shamed in public. How did it come to this?
I read it in a firehouse next to a bar. Now I want to go to the bar, but I’m on duty for 22 more hours :(
The typos revealed your passion for the topic!
The typos show that you could have just graduated from an Ivy league journalism school.
Nah...you making a joke. There's no longer any such thing as a journalism degree. 😉
I read it sitting in my house, but I write a Substack myself and I always seem to find most of my typos after I push the Send button, so I feel your pain. Well written and on point. Our “elites” are truly insane.
Then stay away from the cheap bourbon and stick to scotch.
Famous Grouse enters the chat
"Racist beliefs are fringe baseless hateful conspiracy theories that have always been rejected by society and have never been accepted by any intelligent, educated people ever."
But also,
"Until five minutes ago society was deeply racist, and the legacy of that bigotry survives today in the form of implicit bias and structural racism. Here's a posthumous cancellation list of towering intellectual and artistic minds that you are no longer allowed to admire because they were racists."
Indeed. Not even undergraduate level thinking, and I won't insult the high school debaters either. And to think these are the people who would burn you at the stake for being misogynistic, homophobic racist devils for questioning their claptrap.
good catch!
Ok. Great review. Now post it on the New Yorker. Somebody do SOMETHING!!
“CRT doesn’t exist” -> “CRT is a highly nuanced, esoteric discipline only taught in the most advanced of grad universities” -> “It is critical that it be included in every elementary school’s curriculum”
An amazing height piss, Mr. Raven. But your comment reminds me how much I miss pre-modern parlance, when songs like "Put your head on my shoulderrrr" played everywhere because if nothing else there'd be lots of extra bite to telling our elite scolds to fuck off and die.
Our elites gain and maintain elite status mostly because they are truffle pigs of conformity, always guaranteed to sniff out which new morals and narratives all the cool kids need to have to maintain their lives behind the velvet rope.
And now the elite has coalesced into a single entity with a single purpose and a single strategy: all their perceived political opponents—starting of course w Trump but also including DeSantis, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and now their newest Emmanuel Goldstein, Elon Musk—need to be attacked and smeared by any and all means possible: from digging into their personal histories to siccing the Feds on them to concoting the most baroque guilt-by-association slanders, most of them based on the Left's superweapon, the Bigotry Accusation, which is the scarlet letter of our time.
And while of course they do this to destroy the intended target and have them banished from society, they really do it mostly "pour encourager les autres", meaning to let the rest of us know that if they can inflict this much damage on the rich and famous, they could inflict much more on a civilian.
The story of the Trump era is the institutional Left claiming that his election would usher in a fascist dictatorship where the govt is weaponized against its opponents, where civil liberties are crushed, where the free press is replaced by a regime media, and where with one wrong word or vote would put you in danger—and then the Left fulfilling all their fears and becoming an incarnation of all the things they claim to hate.
Every accusation a confession.
It is love to support mutilating the genitals of children.
Shits upside down CP!
No price is too big to pay (especially when someone else is paying it) for the unveiling of our True Authentic Self™, which makes you both martyr and savior all in one, and which in our therapeutic age takes the place of achievement and/or character.
Yup. Covert Narcissism
Covert?
Yes...that's the irony....in the sense they are so lacking in self awareness that their narcissism is exposed by papering over their savior complex with cool kid martyrdom.
But, yes overt to those who haven't had their self awareness lobotomized.
not so covert! ;))
It is if your lacking self awareness
"truffle pigs of conformity" --- I'm going to commandeer that one.
Right: So it wasn't "fear," it wasn't "hate" the Left was truly expressing in its Trump-era, hand-wringing rants; it was envy, it was FOMO.
Could I lift that last paragraph and use in on Facebook sometime?
I’m still laughing out loud at this question, Why didn’t they have time for the bread to rise, Jill? And I’m Jewish.
I laughed at that, too.
Thank goodness Goebbels didn’t have Twitter. The Holocaust would have been so much worse without the safe and effective state-controlled media propaganda. 🙄
The pogroms, too.
thats kind of what I am worried about but yes, things were so peachy keen before Twitter X (very sarcastic). Humans seem to find a way to be hateful arseh*les if thats what they want to be.
Nailed it.
Do now Musk is what ? The Goebbels of Twitter?
No, just pointing out that people have always gotten their discriminatory viewpoints out. And the irony of state-controlled media (like Elon Musk freed Twitter from) is that it is particularly devastating to the groups this historian purports to care about.
The best that can be said of them is they've created an elaborate cargo cult.
Yes.
Have you noticed that the most virulent Covidians are vocal atheists? What's the old saying about a void wants to be filled.....
"Our institutions have been consumed with madness, and they need to be burned to the ground." The madness comes from the realization deep down that they are rapidly becoming irrelevant and we'd all be better off if they were burned down. But you're right. There is no other way to describe this than psychosis.
I don’t know if I agree with you Lila. Wooden dolls have no brain. Or heart.
11B
I'm beginning to pick up a theme
US Military abbreviations for various types of soldier, training, stationing et c.
Culture shift could begin with media literacy-- questioning the predominant Club of Rome / Limits to Growth belief system in which the human race is a problem which must be controlled and manipulated to be "fixed".
Every candidate in the last election where I am espoused 'gender affirmative care', 'climate change action' and the whole agenda as priorities. It is laughable and tragic at the same time, in equal measure. For the sake of the planet is a marketing ploy picked up and carried by politicians who know, in their core, that they are impostors.
I choose Chintz for the next one.
If is ain’t psychosis it’s narcissism. She tries to be so profound that she can’t recognize her own doublethink, and she has spent so much of her adult life surrounding herself with herself that she now has neither the environmental, intellectual, nor emotional capability of asking a trusted colleague for constructive criticism of her output. Any unsolicited critique is considered physical violence - and their therapists are selected to enable this arrogance as self-esteem.
Next level fragility. Throw in the prestige of being a Harvard professor and it becomes even more brittle.
But the New Yorker published it. What does that say about them?
I just did a bit of recon around Harvard the past few days, in and around Harvard Square. Overheard many conversations. The normal, typical human conversing, of course. But a whole lot of affirming and congratulatory discourse on this or that person helped this or that social justice reengineering of society enlightenment. They'd say all the rightspeak and the other person would validate and praise them for it. Back and forth. Back and forth. Multiple conversations eavesdropped on that fit this description. They're truly being trained, groomed, to be self- righteous moralizing (their morals) completely vacuous and incapable of independent thought people. Who believe they are the right and proper leaders of the world, doing goodly deeds remaking mankind into their vision they have for us. That's the training ground for future world leaders, as they imagine themselves. Pathetic people too entitled to know how loathed they really are. They've got a big surprise coming.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.’ C.S. Lewis
Damn. And here we live under both Robber Barons AND omnipotent moral busybodies.
in a stranglehold.
Baby.
Indeed. One of the great tragedies we have seen in many cultures throughout history. The next generation of elites superbly trained for a world that no longer exists.
That is where they will be at age 50. By then no one will care about your pronouns or your perceived gender. What they will care about is securing their next meal or manually fixing their car.
You mean securing someone to cook the meal or repair the car?
Yah but I remember my college days and we all thought we knew the answers to every fucking thing and talked incessantly about it and then went to hear folk singers sing about it. After a while it just got boring. And then you had to find a job.
Ah, the traditional cure for casual socialism, your first mortgage payment 😜
Harvard?
I remember my college days, too. At a major research university, one of the "public ivy's." Yes, that progression.
In all of the research and discovery of agendas, who's who's, the intersections of science, medicine, psychology, politics, power and influence I've found Harvard and MIT academia and alumni at the center more than half the time. Some Stanford, some Johns Hopkins, other Ivy's like Yale, Penn and Columbia on the media propaganda development side and lots of other smaller institutions that government agencies draw from. But Harvard, that institution is an unrivaled factory of malevolence.
I know. Thanks for reporting, Freedom Fox.
While I was in Boston I went to the Massachusetts State Capitol and sat in on a public hearing of the Joint Committee on Public Health. And heard this testimony I found shocking. And so will most people outside of the professional health community. The need for legislation to prohibit nonconsensual intimate examinations of anesthetized or unconscious patients.
Yes. Up to 90% of medical students perform gynecological and other intimate examinations WITHOUT the consent of patients who are under anesthesia or otherwise unconscious, for completely unrelated surgical practices! For real, testimony by doctors who've been there, done that, and remain creeped out about it even though most of their colleagues are unfazed by it. Yes. If you go under in these hospitals, at Harvard Medical School and medical schools and hospitals that allow students in the OR across the country you are at risk of being subjected to being physically violated, sexually assaulted by experienced doctors and medical students!! Standard operating procedure!
Because it's for a greater good, training new medical professionals. It's always for a greater good when medical practitioners violate our bodily autonomy. Masks. Mandatory vaccinations. You name it.
THIS mentality is how and why the medical profession could become as abusive as we've experienced it since 2020. Obviously it's been this way for decades. We're just now beginning to realize how bad it's gotten. Remember, these are the very same people who we're told are the "experts we must follow." And when we challenge their medical edicts we're shouted down, mocked and silenced because they're trained doctors and we're not.
Wear the damn mask! Get the damn jabs! Boosters! You selfish freeDUM lovers! It's not about you it's about others! For the greater good! These people. These same people. That you're told you must trust and follow. With their already severely compromised ethics, that including rationalizing and justifying rape and sexual assault..."for a greater good." I don't think so.
This needs to be shared wide and far. It's fascinating what you can learn when you bother showing up at public hearings on public health policy. They actually do tell us. But when trees fall in the forest with nobody there to see...
Care to transcribe the testimony presented in this ten-minute hearing, Transcriber B?
H.2146 / S.1333
https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/4682
(Timestamp Begin 03:24:40 - 03:34:30 End)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, dear Freedom Fox. I am very glad to see that someone is trying to get some sunlight on this, and to protect patients.
I knew about this outrageous practise in teaching hospitals some years ago-- I actually read about it, if I recall correctly, in the WSJ. So it happens. No one wants to talk about it. Most people cannot even believe it happens.
I wish I could transcribe that, but it's outside my purview; I do covid-related only.
Yes. At a certain point such narcissism does break with reality. Which is a definition of psychosis.
But just think. If I use a time machine to travel back. I walk into a psych clinic of say, 25 years ago or 50 or 75 years ago and I say I want to cut off my body parts to change genders or dress as an animal in public because I have a hamster persona and that the world is on fire if I don’t collect all the plastic and glass I can and America was formed in 1619. And I am guilty and distraught at my privilege and feel I must be punished.
Padded cell at the very least.
Look, these folks are prohibited from writing about reality--so this crap is what results.
Whoa. She probably DID ask some equivalent bobble heads. And they did what they do. Nod.
What if something is actually wrong, I mean in the sense of: they all got sick somehow, really actually sick. Not just “wow do these people suck or what “ but more like in a pod people way we have not figured out. Because I see just so many smart people thinking and behaving in ways I am sure they once possessed the cognitive capacity to discern to be silly. I am not being snarky funny. I wonder how I ought to proceed if I were simply to assume that were true. Like I am on a super tanker and most of the crew has sudden onset dementia or something
YES. I keep thinking this. I am not above average intelligence, and yet I read this stuff and I cannot wrap my head around what has happened to these people’s ability to THINK LIKE A HUMAN. Like formerly intelligent people like Naomi Klein writing an entire book about how much she hates Naomi Wolf. Did the vaccine cause brain damage? Like this can’t be a real evolution of people. Can it??
When you are used to privilege, equal treatment can feel like prejudice.
Many leading lights in society have been artificially propped up to promote an agenda they may be unaware of. When one of your own leaves the reservation and questions things it can make the rest question why they are there.
Affirmative action has the same effect. Am I just here to prop up some agenda?
Toby Rogers has an excellent take in his latest Substack post on Naomi Klein’s psychotic attack on Naomi Wolf.
Yes, Toby did a great take down on this.
Girls don’t play nice
May be true. But this is next level unhinged.
Perhaps.
But Girls don't play nice with each other, no Perhaps.
Facts of life.
When you run with the herd, you can't just stop and scratch your ear, but for the little critters in the forest, every sound might be serious. Situational awareness will save you more effectively than being one with the crowd.
Oh dear. That was just so funny.
Same thoughts swirling between my marbles.
It's just NUTZ!
Also, remember how in *The Faerie Queene,* Spenser keeps doing that thing where he says, "This particular character was so completely nasty that I can't even bring myself to describe her," and then... describing her, right down to the excrement under her tail? Maybe Prof. L thinks this is the way logic and reason work, not just an interesting sixteenth-century literary technique. "He was such a nut thar no one listened to him!" ... <describes all the people who listened to him>
I can’t do this kind of differential analysis of long-winded leftist propaganda because the bullshit meter in my mind keeps pegging and shutting down the process. But I sincerely compliment those of you with the intellectual constitution to wade through this BS.
And I agree completely that the U.S. has built an over-inflated aristocracy of morally vacuous ppl who will say and do anything to buttress their tenuous hold on their position in that aristocracy. I just had a flash of “Chauncey Gardner” talking with POTUS and a plutocrat:
President "Bobby": Mr. Gardner, do
you agree with Ben, or do you think
that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
Chance the Gardener: “[G]rowth has its seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.
Benjamin Rand: I think what our
insightful young friend is saying is
that we welcome the inevitable
seasons of nature, but we're upset by the seasons of our economy.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks these people are nuts.
"This is one of our top history professors..." Not OUR history top professors. One of THEIR top history professors. They are making it ever more obvious that we live under the boot of a hostile, alien "elite".
She makes me ashamed to have been part of the profession I once loved.. I never thought I'd say this, but yes, these institutions must be burned to the ground.
The three legged-stool of insanity - Covid hysteria, Gorebull Warning, and trannyism - that's being relentlessly pushed on us by those with the power, money, and influence show that TPTB are in fact completely insane, out of touch with the most basic elements of the reality in which we all live.
Professors are generally just people who went to school a long time and are able to read fast.
don't forget they're also cowardly careerist conformists
They have to protect their egos while knowing that they are just
People who went to school a long time.
if there's one common trait that's shared among the successful profs and journalists I've known, it's a constant crippling status anxiety, aka a perpetual fear that they may be on the wrong side of a popular issue or that they may appear in public after having uttered something other members of their cohort disagree with (esp when the issue has any poss moral aspect).
it is this deep insecurity that makes them so conformist and averse to free thinking, the fear that they may be ejected from the faculty lounge they've spent their entire lives dreaming of.
public scholars are so susceptible to social trends that even Zizek and Dawkins campaigned for aggressive vaccine mandates—this really blew my mind
Zizek and Dawkins!! et tu, supposed geniuses!??
I found that shocking too, especially Dawkins. Covid was a blessing for some of us. It forever destroyed my faith in people in positions of authority.
Don’t rock the boat or otherwise upset the grift.
Not quite the same with hard science profs.