We are all, by now, very familiar with, not to mention thoroughly sick of, the trend to shut down any kind of opinion that doesn’t follow the wokey brick road (because, because, because, because, because, because of the tolerant woke there is).
The disconnect from normal rational thoughts and the woke acid fuelled headlong free fall down a bottomless sinkhole of self and group delusions is mind bending. Are they taking the Piss ? Or are they truly really candidates for mass lobotomy? It’s as if a new subspecies of humans has branched off and is headed for extinction.... as in how long would they survive if all the real people up and left?
I dunno - but a lot of those papers in the anthropology conference seem like they're just taking the piss.
I recommend taking a peek, for as long as you can stomach it, because it's extraordinary. Page after page of nonsensical gobbledegook (with a few interesting tidbits now and then)
That’s what Elon Musk’s rockets are for - to take all the really important people off to Mars, à la HHGTTG (which we can reasonably assume they haven’t read)
I recommend "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Lukianoff and Haidt. It explores and analyses concepts such as "safetyism", which they define as "a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns."
In other words, Safetyism is an irrational obsession with safety that hinders normal day to day activity. Eg "People may drown in swimming pools, so swimming in pools is now prohibited".
Safetyism is, of course, always deemed to be for the greater good, by the deranged imbeciles who espouse it.
The book also covers other woke gibberish such as intersectionality, the cult of identity, microaggressions etc. Worth reading.
I read the Atlantic article way back when, before the Atlantic was paywalled, and the book has been on my reading list for a while. Perhaps I should really move it up to nearer the top.
I've read and watched a fair few articles and lectures about it, but probably should read the real thing.
Provided one follows the money I mean TheScience and has therefore imbibed the quintuple cool-aid jabs n boosters, then it’s mostly peaceful death which is much milder and safer than the pandemic of unjabbed deaths.
I think that yes, the leftists play upon some people's desire for safety, as when leftists create fake 'crises', 'emergencies', and scenarios of doom. But IMO the real goal of the leftists is not safety, it is control.
Oh yeah. This shite has nothing to do with the actual safety of people. It's all about control of discourse and exerting power over others, under the flimsy excuse of safety. These vermin are simply saying "Your thoughts and words can cause me actual physical harm, therefore they should not be thought or uttered."
I might show more respect for anthropologists if they still went to dangerous foreign countries, immersed themselves in the local culture, ate the local food (probably bugs, actually...), slept in a mud hut with legions of insects, and got splendid diarrhoea.
- the vast expansion of 'higher education' has churned out vast numbers of people who have been taught: 1)to think themselves more important than they otherwise would have and 2) an enhanced intellectual capacity to hold (and fiercely cling to) beliefs that are manifestly absurd. It's a skill of a sort!
- the vast expansion of social media has given one-track-minded screw-ups and malcontents a hugely disproportionate political influence (because the saner people are, the less obsessed they tend to be about their opinions.) https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
I hope i wasn’t obliged to read your quoted passages ( I did try a sentence or two but I began to feel ill - anyway since you’d kindly taken the trouble why did I have to). Do we really need to be worried about this weirdly stupid stuff?
I think we probably do need to worry about it, not so much for the content but for the attitudes that seem to come with it. The seeming inability to engage with any criticism of the ideas is a serious problem.
Living in Portland I had a front row seat to the BLM bull. Around that time a retired lawyer I knew told me about how, in law, you cannot punish a person legally for something that say their grandfather or father did. At least in America. I think there is something to the woke mind virus in this concept.
It’s a weird responsibility, being culpable for the feelings of others. I guess we’re also tasked with being responsible for assigning their sex, depending on which pronoun we use. Kids, don’t be a marionette, or if you are, don’t just hand the strings to everyone you meet.
Actually your average plod was always “thick”, but he / she had an officer corps who more or less kept things sensible. Now the officer corps has gone completely woke the poor plods have no one to turn to. It started 2 or 3 decades ago, at least
No need to send them to Mars. Canada would work. Or Build a wall around California and pull all funding. Seal it. Come back in 10 years and they will all be dead.
This. "I’m ahead of the trend here. I’ve been de-colonizing my food every morning before a shower for years now." What you describe is exactly the place where the type of scholarship described in that pamphlet needs to go. Does that actually say, "decolonizing their culinary offerings"? Words fail me, almost. #WeAreSoScrewed
It's the end state of post modernism. Deconstructed to the point of illegiblity. Completely useless in meaning making as that requires logical causality. Garbage.
It's worth noticing that none of the people involved is particularly manly - including the two obese soyboys in the government-thug costumes.
Entire branches of academia - namely, those that have low cognitive demands - have become Affirmative Action programmes for women and low-T male midwits.
Then again, everyone knows this.
Literally zero people involved in the grift in real life is remotely like "PC Principal" - but there are PLENTY of "Mr Mackey" and "Principal Victoria" types.
We should count ourselves as fortunate that they are collectively so stupid that they're all jabbed up to the eyeballs - so they will be removed from the gene pool by "Thuddenly" in slightly greater numbers than would otherwise be the case.
It's a small win - but it impacts people that I detest (bureaucrats and so forth), so I'll take it. Always look on the bright side of life, as Jesus sang at the end of that documentary.
The disconnect from normal rational thoughts and the woke acid fuelled headlong free fall down a bottomless sinkhole of self and group delusions is mind bending. Are they taking the Piss ? Or are they truly really candidates for mass lobotomy? It’s as if a new subspecies of humans has branched off and is headed for extinction.... as in how long would they survive if all the real people up and left?
I dunno - but a lot of those papers in the anthropology conference seem like they're just taking the piss.
I recommend taking a peek, for as long as you can stomach it, because it's extraordinary. Page after page of nonsensical gobbledegook (with a few interesting tidbits now and then)
That’s what Elon Musk’s rockets are for - to take all the really important people off to Mars, à la HHGTTG (which we can reasonably assume they haven’t read)
I recommend "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Lukianoff and Haidt. It explores and analyses concepts such as "safetyism", which they define as "a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns."
In other words, Safetyism is an irrational obsession with safety that hinders normal day to day activity. Eg "People may drown in swimming pools, so swimming in pools is now prohibited".
Safetyism is, of course, always deemed to be for the greater good, by the deranged imbeciles who espouse it.
The book also covers other woke gibberish such as intersectionality, the cult of identity, microaggressions etc. Worth reading.
I read the Atlantic article way back when, before the Atlantic was paywalled, and the book has been on my reading list for a while. Perhaps I should really move it up to nearer the top.
I've read and watched a fair few articles and lectures about it, but probably should read the real thing.
We have never been “safe”. We never will be. How do these idiots deal with death?
Provided one follows the money I mean TheScience and has therefore imbibed the quintuple cool-aid jabs n boosters, then it’s mostly peaceful death which is much milder and safer than the pandemic of unjabbed deaths.
You’re still dead tho’. How scary is that?
I think that yes, the leftists play upon some people's desire for safety, as when leftists create fake 'crises', 'emergencies', and scenarios of doom. But IMO the real goal of the leftists is not safety, it is control.
Oh yeah. This shite has nothing to do with the actual safety of people. It's all about control of discourse and exerting power over others, under the flimsy excuse of safety. These vermin are simply saying "Your thoughts and words can cause me actual physical harm, therefore they should not be thought or uttered."
It's very clever, and totally evil.
I might show more respect for anthropologists if they still went to dangerous foreign countries, immersed themselves in the local culture, ate the local food (probably bugs, actually...), slept in a mud hut with legions of insects, and got splendid diarrhoea.
They have splendid diarrhoea - only it's of the verbal variety
But they do go to very unsafe conferences
Oh yes, and they should start writing about it.
Decolonizing Anthropology: Shifting the Focus of Anthropology to Studying Anthropologix at Conferences
Great post! Two things:
- the vast expansion of 'higher education' has churned out vast numbers of people who have been taught: 1)to think themselves more important than they otherwise would have and 2) an enhanced intellectual capacity to hold (and fiercely cling to) beliefs that are manifestly absurd. It's a skill of a sort!
- the vast expansion of social media has given one-track-minded screw-ups and malcontents a hugely disproportionate political influence (because the saner people are, the less obsessed they tend to be about their opinions.) https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
I hope i wasn’t obliged to read your quoted passages ( I did try a sentence or two but I began to feel ill - anyway since you’d kindly taken the trouble why did I have to). Do we really need to be worried about this weirdly stupid stuff?
I sympathise.
Trying to read this drivel is hard work.
I think we probably do need to worry about it, not so much for the content but for the attitudes that seem to come with it. The seeming inability to engage with any criticism of the ideas is a serious problem.
Living in Portland I had a front row seat to the BLM bull. Around that time a retired lawyer I knew told me about how, in law, you cannot punish a person legally for something that say their grandfather or father did. At least in America. I think there is something to the woke mind virus in this concept.
It’s a weird responsibility, being culpable for the feelings of others. I guess we’re also tasked with being responsible for assigning their sex, depending on which pronoun we use. Kids, don’t be a marionette, or if you are, don’t just hand the strings to everyone you meet.
It's hard to believe that the police are that thick.
Sorry.
I USED to find it hard to believe.
Now it's on full display at every turn.
Good police officers must be horrified by what the governments Sturmabteilung have become.
They've never been famed for being quick on the uptake, but they used to be, by and large, reasonably decent. Now they're just mad as a box of frogs.
Actually your average plod was always “thick”, but he / she had an officer corps who more or less kept things sensible. Now the officer corps has gone completely woke the poor plods have no one to turn to. It started 2 or 3 decades ago, at least
I was under the impression that British cops are now required to have college degrees. Could that be part of the problem?
They have degrees in anthropology 😂
Everyone has to have a degree in something, but they’re not IQ tests 😂
Hey, I grew up in academia, so I know all about how college makes you intellimagent and smarp.
No need to send them to Mars. Canada would work. Or Build a wall around California and pull all funding. Seal it. Come back in 10 years and they will all be dead.
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/former-major-city-police-detective?r=9xthg&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
This. "I’m ahead of the trend here. I’ve been de-colonizing my food every morning before a shower for years now." What you describe is exactly the place where the type of scholarship described in that pamphlet needs to go. Does that actually say, "decolonizing their culinary offerings"? Words fail me, almost. #WeAreSoScrewed
I say it again: I'll happily pay any woke academic to call an arab moslem a negro in person.
I'll bring the wreath in advance. Negros have the same status among arabs as gypsies in Germany 1936-1945.
This read of yours was just what I needed after a ten-hour drive.
That was by far one of your funniest 🤣
It's the end state of post modernism. Deconstructed to the point of illegiblity. Completely useless in meaning making as that requires logical causality. Garbage.
It's worth noticing that none of the people involved is particularly manly - including the two obese soyboys in the government-thug costumes.
Entire branches of academia - namely, those that have low cognitive demands - have become Affirmative Action programmes for women and low-T male midwits.
Then again, everyone knows this.
Literally zero people involved in the grift in real life is remotely like "PC Principal" - but there are PLENTY of "Mr Mackey" and "Principal Victoria" types.
We should count ourselves as fortunate that they are collectively so stupid that they're all jabbed up to the eyeballs - so they will be removed from the gene pool by "Thuddenly" in slightly greater numbers than would otherwise be the case.
It's a small win - but it impacts people that I detest (bureaucrats and so forth), so I'll take it. Always look on the bright side of life, as Jesus sang at the end of that documentary.