I am opposed to this transgender business, because Truth matters. And the truth is that human beings are created in 2 flavors: male and female, with the exception of some very rare unfortunates. To claim otherwise is to deny fundamental biological truth.
This really is a 2 + 2 = 5 situation. The authorities in the West are now forcing us to acquiesce to a lie, under penalty of fines and even loss of freedom.
They are now blending the lines between gender and sex, after separating the two to advance this transgender narrative. Earlier this year, when Rachel/Richard (circle both) Levine was made a 4-star admiral, the White House Tweeted its congratulations to the first FEMALE 4-star...
This assault on truth is just getting underway, and we all need to speak the truth, especially uncomfortable ones.
BTW, I just ventured onto Wikipedia to verify that Rachel was born Richard. No mention of Richard anywhere. Like an Old Comrade who fell out of Stalin's favor, Richard is completely erased from history. Hard evidence (pun intended) for Richard's continued existence lies under Rachel's skirt.
I'm OK with a little 'bending' of the truth when it comes to individuals who suffer from deep-seated and persistent gender dysphoria. It's pretty brutal for these people and a program of "helping them to be happy in the body they have been given" might not actually work. How do we best help these people? I don't want them to suffer miserable lives for the sake of an adherence to 'truth'. Difficult questions here because I don't think we properly know what 'works' and what doesn't. So, for the sake of these people, and in the current absence of 'better' treatments, I'm OK with a compassionate fiction that will allow a legal identification of sex-change to be made. These people can then live their lives "as if" they were the opposite sex and, I hope, without discrimination.
But we're talking here about a very small percentage of people who really do suffer from this kind of deep-seated and persistent distressing condition.
If, for example, we find in another 50 years that sex 're-assignment' procedures actually ARE the best treatment for these few, what then? Do we just ignore that for the sake of adherence to the truth? Do we consign these suffering individuals to a life of misery and just shrug our shoulders?
The problem is we've gone waaaaaay beyond this. Instead of the very small percentage of kids who might be trans we have a whole ideology that seems to WANT kids to be trans and is hell-bent on pushing them in that direction. We've seen tons of examples with 'gender' ideology where pretty much everything, and anything, goes.
Instead of the attitude "you're trans? Oh my God you've been dealt a shitty hand - it's gonna be really rough, but we can help you get through it eventually" we've got people celebrating and delighted that their kid 'is' trans. It's so very messed up.
Instead of a position of patient, careful and supportive monitoring surrounding what could become irreversible and life-changing, we've got the ideologues and the medical profession channelling people into these things by 'affirmation'. It's very wrong.
Kids are very impressionable. If we introduce the idea that they 'might' be a different sex than their body displays (whatever that means) and continually reinforce that with praise and affirmation (rather than indifference) then of course that kid is going to grow up thinking that their temporary and immature notion of who they 'are' (or 'want' to be) is more than the 'phase' it is. For the vast majority anyway.
When the 'affirmation' and positive encouragement lessen as they get older, many kids who have been channelled into this and had their bodies radically altered with surgery are going to feel a deep sense of betrayal and regret.
And this is just the medical trans side of things. We've also got the freakshow of "self-ID" being rolled out everywhere along with a collection of batshit crazy "genders" that all get put under the fucking demented Trans Umbrella.
We've gone from a compassionate treatment of a very few unfortunate individuals to a complete assault on societal structures and behaviours that have evolved over millions of years. All this has happened, essentially, within a **decade** (although it has been brewing in the cretinous cauldrons of academia for a few decades).
It all needs to be stopped, but in a way that still allows us to help the very few people who really do have a deep-seated struggle with their sex.
I agree with almost all you've written, but, from what I've read on this subject (admittedly, not a lot) I don't think that surgery or even acceding to a transgender individual's self-perception lead to positive outcomes. Suicide rates remain very high in those who've undergone surgery. Dr. Paul McHugh, formerly of Johns Hopkins, has written quite a bit about this subject. It might take some searching, but he wrote prolifically about this when the mania took off about a decade ago.
The pushback has been fierce in parts of US media (definitely not MSM) and transgendered people who've regretted surgery appear regularly on many websites and TV channels. That this movement is going after children now is beyond horrifying. The state is inserting itself between parents and their children. Absolutely evil. A family acquaintance finds herself in this position, her confused, moody pre-teen child scooped up by the school and diagnosed by school councilors as probably suffering from gender dysphoria. Chris Bray wrote a horrifying/interesting (circle both) article about a law that was just passed in California.https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/shocking-perverse-incentives-in-sb?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
(An aside: about a decade ago I returned to faith and would listen now and again to a Catholic radio station. The hosts often made mention of the fact that one of the Fatima seers (Sister Lucia) said that Mary warned that the final battle between God and Satan would be over the family. The documented facts surrounding Fatima always interested me, even when my faith was non-existent, but I thought this to be a bit of a stretch. Except now it seems to be happening in real time!)
Your substack is excellent, Rudolph Rigger. I always look forward to reading your thoughts. God bless you. Hang in there.
Go ahead and dress as a member of the opposite sex. I really don't care. But do not force me to pretend that you are indeed a woman, when you are a man. I won't go along with that. It's frightening to see how many will discard truth and reality, though.
What irritates me is the pronouns. "They/them" means 2 or more people, and I refuse to use it any other way. Also, for these people to require ME to be uncomfortable using these terms I disagree with so that THEY (plural) can be comfortable is egomaniacal (for lack of a stronger word). Extending Rudolph's covid parallel, it brings to mind the meme that circulated: "My freedom doesn't end where your fear begins."
The "Current Thing" zealots I know are all neurotic messes, thoroughly infantilized, desperate for attention. They struggle to maintain close relationships. They'd be pitiable if they weren't so eagerly useful to powerful, cynical, psychopathic people. Their utility lies in their zealotry. Their normal condition is moral panic in service to brutal authoritarians.
The go along to get along people are frightened by them. Any entanglement brings a howling digital mob, career or job cancelation, opprobrium in the perjured media, and social isolation. Their passivity makes them the anaesthetized zombie hosts for the zealot botnet.
People wiser than me say that the best thing to do is to keep speaking calm reason, seek out the like-minded and organize whatever mutual aid is possible. There's a chance the go-alongs will tire of the abuse. Thanks for speaking calm reason!
Good point. Some of them do get Judas payouts. The payouts typically go to the cynics who are good at exploiting the much more numerous hysterical chumps. The chumps often end up subsidizing their exploiters, and they also struggle with each other for tribal status. It's ugly, to say the least.
Thank you for so simply and humanely articulating why this all bothers you. You summed it up beautifully. These trends are deeply concerning for all the reasons you say and the need some people seem to have to vilify anyone who shares your concerns is deeply worrying. I am with you.
I try my best. I really don't want people to be hurt, or discriminated against. I want everyone to be able to live as happy and fulfilled life as possible within the constraints that a functioning society naturally has to impose.
I just think the gender fruitloops are going about it in precisely the wrong way. It seems a program of maximising damage, not minimising it.
You could have also just printed Part 1, Chapter 7 of 1984 in its entirety.
"Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense."
It matters because to the mad, the puritan and the progressive there's no terminus. Due to how their respective pattern of thought, action and reaction is construed there cannot even exist anything but a hypothetical endpoint. This is so since they all in their own way are utopian (or eutopian if you prefer) and a utopia in the sense of perfect state of being or indeed there ever being a perfect state is a logical impossibility:
If a state of being can change to the better, it cannot ever be or have been perfect. As the unattainable goal is placed before all else (which -ism or equivalent isn't relevant) any cost that have any chance to bring that goal closer is justified and moral. No act in service of the cause can be evil or wrong, at best it is a regrettable sacrifice on the path to enlightenment and perfection.
That is why it matters. That is this must be opposed, everywhere in every shape it takes, because else it just escalates.
Now, imagine you never yelled "Halt!" but just shot the intruder straight away. That is what will happen when or if there's a critical mass reached among the greater populace on these issues. Imagine the pakistanis colonising parts of Britain protesting this the way they are used to protest and handle apostates, heretics and deviants at home.
So by crying out "Halt!", you and I and everyone else opposing or exposing stuff like this are doing everyone (even the pervoids) a favour.
Well yes, but in the case of RR's topic(s), the intruder is intruding with intent and does ot think of pronoun-self as an intruder; rather, the avantgarde trans-ients see themselves as a Jaeger-corps infiltrating the enmies' lairs.
These kinds of groups of people do not view themselves as themselves should they ever consciously try to use metacognition - they see themselves as the Protagonist on the the Hero's Journey, rising up against the Evil that has enthralled the land under its claims to reality and truth.
And since it is quite nice not to shoot people until they are verified as a threat, metaphorically or literally, the sentinel should give fair warning, don't you think?
A friend would identify themselves if not expected. Anything else approaching the established boundary is foe, intruder, or worse.
I know this is over simplified, but the point I was trying to make is how the sane are made to over compensate, bend over backwards, turn the other cheek, accept the fringe, tolerate the intolerable and give warnings, while the critical theory horde is allowed to trespass, infiltrate and defecate wherever and whenever they please.
There are boundaries and limits for reasons, and it is long past time we recognize that.
You ask the question, "what kind of society we are in the process of constructing?" I am inclined to answer that this is the (perhaps attempted) DE-struction of society. It seems to me that if you look at the list of the CIA tactics of how to destroy a country/society/community from the inside, then what we're seeing is on that list... All about Divide and Conquer, confusion, setting people into this side against that side, posing fake questions about fake problems... In short, everything we're seeing in the USA right now that isn't a reaction to what is being foisted on us to make us want civil war, or at least hatred of the "other." We're looking at a giant psy-op with this whole "pandemic" thing, already, are we not? The "climate crisis," the "food shortages" (which are real, perhaps, but deliberate), the "lone gunman shootings," and so on... All fake. And I propose that all this so-called "gender dysphoria" that has suddenly blossomed in our children and pubescent youth is fake, too. This is the kind of warfare that the CIA does, and has practiced up for all these years since its creation. PSY OP. These last two years, I think that FIRST when I hear of something weird going on, and then look for proof it ISN'T that.
My current hypothesis is that this destabilization is deliberate and being driven to create a polarization and hatred between two 'opposing' sides. They're goading people into extreme reactions so that, eventually, they have to 'step in' to 'solve' the problem with tighter societal controls.
Which I think is pretty much what you outlined.
Programmable digital currencies, bonuses for 'environmentally responsible' behaviour, censorship mediated by 'private' corporations, establishment of laws to punish 'misinformation', freezing of bank accounts if you support the 'wrong' cause, etc. They're slowly, but surely, building a comprehensive toolkit to achieve a degree of population control orders of magnitude worse than anything humanity has ever had to endure.
We've known for a while there's a plan to take over our financial autonomy... what are credit cards for, anyway?? lol But according to James Corbett and many others, the plans are in place, and the crackdown is coming soon. SOON.
If you have your money in a bank, which most of us do, (even me, and I have like, 5 cents), make sure you're using a LOCAL bank, not a NATIONAL bank, and try to keep some cash stash somewhere safe and NOT in a bank. It's gonna get VERY VERY localized, maybe.
Let me come at this from a different angle. Generally, when going about my business in the woke UK, my approach is completely ignore the trans ideology stuff. If drawn, I might say 'I don't do identity politics'. There's too much else going on and, compared to the realities of life outside affluent western countries, it just sounds like so many spoilt children screaming for attention.
But if asked in a group for my pronouns, I could also say: "I identify as an animist. My pronouns are: 'sentient/being'." It would come across as a joke, but there's a serious point here: when encountering a new person my first thought is not about their gender or social label. Or shouldn't be, if I'm relating authentically. That stuff is inevitable, but it comes later. At the introduction stage, all that's important is the encounter between two living beings. And there's always a context informing the priorities of the first moments: does the person need help? (I'm someone who gets asked for directions a lot) Or: do we get on? Is this going to be an important relationship? There is so much in the business of meeting other living beings that is not about labels and correctness.
Perhaps, if I understand your comment properly, until recently we have tended to instantly "already know" what gender someone is, and we "size them up" upon first glance, make assumptions that until recently have been "natural," and all that sort of obvious human stuff, which is no longer necessarily obvious, was not dwelt upon, questioned, or even consciously considered! Now everyone is on edge lest they insult a person. It just feels to me that ALL this stuff we're seeing over the past nearly three years is manufactured mindfuckery.
The same authoritarian science-cult mindset that pushes experimental mRNA technologies on the masses and then ruthlessly censors and demonizes anyone who speaks up about the problems is the exact same authoritarian science-cult mindset that pushes "gender affirmation" and dubious experimental procedures on *young children* and then ruthlessly censors and demonizes anyone who speaks up about the problems.
Hormones and puberty blockers are being used off-label and they have no idea of the long-term consequences on a mass scale. It is the exact same underlying issue. And it matters because *children* are being *hurt* by this, and their lives destroyed.
I've been meaning to write up an article on this parallel and will try to do so soon.
You are being much to kind to the enablers. Those who's mental stability and factual balance has been distorted by the psyop Soma of anything and everything whenever, wherever, all the time, no boundaries, no expectations ... no reality, are being abused by the enablers. Those are the ones who have perpetuated this insanity. And they know what they are doing, it is not accidental.
Right. And I'm happy that Christians by and large figured out that pronouns aren't just pronouns, I'm endorsing a certain set of beliefs. The same was true for masks but very many of us were fooled on that one.
Maaaaaan, don't include "ride a bicycle" in with the inherently wretched "eat ze bugs & live in ze pod". Lots people _like_ being bicycle commuters.
My neighbors and I pay a substantial rent premium to live in a place where riding a bicycle for daily transport actually makes sense. (And then save that extra rent money right back by not paying to own a car.)
But I get where you're coming from - it's the coercion. Forcing people to ride a bicycle is wrong. Let it be a market choice.
There's a not insubstantial part of the American population that _wants_ to ride bikes everywhere. Housing cost in bicycle friendly areas are almost always higher than nearby car-only areas. Pretty clear evidence of market demand. Money talks & bullshit walks.
The average bicycle commuter is just someone who personally enjoys riding a bike more than driving a car. We have no interest in forcing you to ride a bicycle - much less forcing you to eat bugs and live in a pod.
But we probably will try to make the city council slow down traffic and build bike lanes. So y'all motorists don't run us over and kill us.
It wasn't meant to be an attack on bike riding - which is a great way of getting around and exercising. The point was really about the **imposition** of this on the 'plebs'.
GREAT parallels! A social engineering pattern, perhaps?
"By forcing everyone into the same ideological straitjacket we lose any flexibility or ability to develop a better understanding of the real issues." - The key words there being "REAL issues," that are being explained away as "gender dysphoria"; such as the NORMAL confusion that accompanies adolescence, or the result of childhood trauma, or (as is currently being theorized) a component of ASD, or even young children simply enjoying playing dress-up and/or playing with 'other-gender' toys. ALL very REAL and LEGIT experiences we should be focusing on, rather than just knee-jerkingly labeling them "gender dysphoria."
For me, it is also about language and its objectively understood meaning. We are language mammals, our language proficiency being a major distinguisher of our species. The rules and premises of our legal sytems and the sciences are based upon the agreed meanings of terms.
Concepts like equal rights or non-discrimation are familiar in liberal western democracies and are hard to argue against but I take issue with the Orwellian redefining of cornerstones of our societies language under a bait and switch of minority rights.
Case in point: gay marriage was presented as a classic equal rights issue. However, at root it was a review of what marriage had been and ultimately a constitutional redefinition of what it is. I was open to such a discussion but nobody wanted to debate with me, they were only interested in supporting equal rights and oblivious to the implicit redefining of marriage.
The push for trans rights is being presented in a similar fashion (notwithstanding that marriage IS a social construct and not an intrinsic characteristic of biological life). I am open to a discussion about gender roles in our societies or about the broad range of masculinity/femininity that men/women can have. But again, nobody wants to have that discussion anymore, instead they simply bleat about minority rights, presume I am a bigot, and ignore the stealth redefinition of what a man/woman is and all the legal & practical consequences.
Thanks for the post. As you know I've been interested in the nuances of this trans extremism, recognizing the small number of people the trans issue really applies to and having compassion for them. Then I was angry and stood up against the over reach into women's sports and women's bathrooms and locker rooms. And then my Mama Bear protection arose when they started messing with children, encroaching on children's lives, and this is why I think we need to keep this issue on the front burner. Adults can handle themselves, but we need to protect our children from the extremism (all the while knowing that one child out of a million is trans). We also protect our children by recognizing what you said, the trans extremism is part of an emerging fascism or authoritarianism in our country. We now have medical fascism, we've had an arising liberal fascism, and I used to be more concerned with a possible Christian religious fascism, but now they are amongst my closest allies against the medical fascism and protection of children! Strange bedfellows. 😄
I remember another substacker wrote a post about how the trans movement is realy the seeds of a transhuman movement. They thought the purpose of the trans extremism is to lay the foundation for combining human tissue with technology and computers - the internet of bodies. In this future we would be associating more through computers than human to human. They made a case that the trans extreme movement we see now isn't really about the small number of trans people, it's the foundation for the implementation of transhumanism. Was that you? As I write that I think of the recent interview that Naomi Wolf did. She is sensing an certain spark or aliveness missing in people who have taken this vaccine injection. She's done a lot of research into how the vaccine injection affects the testes and ovaries. She said that there's a certain sexual aliveness missing... and I know our sexual energy is a part of our overall human energy and aliveness. She feels like that is dampened down in liberal cities, like she can feel it in the air, and I have another friend who felt the same way in Amsterdam last month. Dampening down that human sexual spark that can happen with one another, whether you're in a sexual relationship or not, would be integral to transitioning towards transhumanism, and away from nature and one another.
It would also play nicely into the eugenicists' goals of the WEF (Schwab, Gates, et al).
As for that weird feeling Naomi Wolf mentions, I've noticed that, as well, with friends and relatives who got the jab(s). They often seem "out of it" mentally/cognitively; forgetful, confused, unsure, lacking clarity. The only other 'pureblood' I know has noticed it, too. There's definitely something strange happening with them.
I am opposed to this transgender business, because Truth matters. And the truth is that human beings are created in 2 flavors: male and female, with the exception of some very rare unfortunates. To claim otherwise is to deny fundamental biological truth.
This really is a 2 + 2 = 5 situation. The authorities in the West are now forcing us to acquiesce to a lie, under penalty of fines and even loss of freedom.
They are now blending the lines between gender and sex, after separating the two to advance this transgender narrative. Earlier this year, when Rachel/Richard (circle both) Levine was made a 4-star admiral, the White House Tweeted its congratulations to the first FEMALE 4-star...
This assault on truth is just getting underway, and we all need to speak the truth, especially uncomfortable ones.
BTW, I just ventured onto Wikipedia to verify that Rachel was born Richard. No mention of Richard anywhere. Like an Old Comrade who fell out of Stalin's favor, Richard is completely erased from history. Hard evidence (pun intended) for Richard's continued existence lies under Rachel's skirt.
I'm OK with a little 'bending' of the truth when it comes to individuals who suffer from deep-seated and persistent gender dysphoria. It's pretty brutal for these people and a program of "helping them to be happy in the body they have been given" might not actually work. How do we best help these people? I don't want them to suffer miserable lives for the sake of an adherence to 'truth'. Difficult questions here because I don't think we properly know what 'works' and what doesn't. So, for the sake of these people, and in the current absence of 'better' treatments, I'm OK with a compassionate fiction that will allow a legal identification of sex-change to be made. These people can then live their lives "as if" they were the opposite sex and, I hope, without discrimination.
But we're talking here about a very small percentage of people who really do suffer from this kind of deep-seated and persistent distressing condition.
If, for example, we find in another 50 years that sex 're-assignment' procedures actually ARE the best treatment for these few, what then? Do we just ignore that for the sake of adherence to the truth? Do we consign these suffering individuals to a life of misery and just shrug our shoulders?
The problem is we've gone waaaaaay beyond this. Instead of the very small percentage of kids who might be trans we have a whole ideology that seems to WANT kids to be trans and is hell-bent on pushing them in that direction. We've seen tons of examples with 'gender' ideology where pretty much everything, and anything, goes.
Instead of the attitude "you're trans? Oh my God you've been dealt a shitty hand - it's gonna be really rough, but we can help you get through it eventually" we've got people celebrating and delighted that their kid 'is' trans. It's so very messed up.
Instead of a position of patient, careful and supportive monitoring surrounding what could become irreversible and life-changing, we've got the ideologues and the medical profession channelling people into these things by 'affirmation'. It's very wrong.
Kids are very impressionable. If we introduce the idea that they 'might' be a different sex than their body displays (whatever that means) and continually reinforce that with praise and affirmation (rather than indifference) then of course that kid is going to grow up thinking that their temporary and immature notion of who they 'are' (or 'want' to be) is more than the 'phase' it is. For the vast majority anyway.
When the 'affirmation' and positive encouragement lessen as they get older, many kids who have been channelled into this and had their bodies radically altered with surgery are going to feel a deep sense of betrayal and regret.
And this is just the medical trans side of things. We've also got the freakshow of "self-ID" being rolled out everywhere along with a collection of batshit crazy "genders" that all get put under the fucking demented Trans Umbrella.
We've gone from a compassionate treatment of a very few unfortunate individuals to a complete assault on societal structures and behaviours that have evolved over millions of years. All this has happened, essentially, within a **decade** (although it has been brewing in the cretinous cauldrons of academia for a few decades).
It all needs to be stopped, but in a way that still allows us to help the very few people who really do have a deep-seated struggle with their sex.
I agree with almost all you've written, but, from what I've read on this subject (admittedly, not a lot) I don't think that surgery or even acceding to a transgender individual's self-perception lead to positive outcomes. Suicide rates remain very high in those who've undergone surgery. Dr. Paul McHugh, formerly of Johns Hopkins, has written quite a bit about this subject. It might take some searching, but he wrote prolifically about this when the mania took off about a decade ago.
The pushback has been fierce in parts of US media (definitely not MSM) and transgendered people who've regretted surgery appear regularly on many websites and TV channels. That this movement is going after children now is beyond horrifying. The state is inserting itself between parents and their children. Absolutely evil. A family acquaintance finds herself in this position, her confused, moody pre-teen child scooped up by the school and diagnosed by school councilors as probably suffering from gender dysphoria. Chris Bray wrote a horrifying/interesting (circle both) article about a law that was just passed in California.https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/shocking-perverse-incentives-in-sb?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
(An aside: about a decade ago I returned to faith and would listen now and again to a Catholic radio station. The hosts often made mention of the fact that one of the Fatima seers (Sister Lucia) said that Mary warned that the final battle between God and Satan would be over the family. The documented facts surrounding Fatima always interested me, even when my faith was non-existent, but I thought this to be a bit of a stretch. Except now it seems to be happening in real time!)
Your substack is excellent, Rudolph Rigger. I always look forward to reading your thoughts. God bless you. Hang in there.
Yes!! I refuse to be complicit, forced or voluntarily, in their lies and fantasies. Period. You can think you’re a platypus for all
I care, but I refuse to give one iota of support for your lies.
Agree completely.
Go ahead and dress as a member of the opposite sex. I really don't care. But do not force me to pretend that you are indeed a woman, when you are a man. I won't go along with that. It's frightening to see how many will discard truth and reality, though.
What irritates me is the pronouns. "They/them" means 2 or more people, and I refuse to use it any other way. Also, for these people to require ME to be uncomfortable using these terms I disagree with so that THEY (plural) can be comfortable is egomaniacal (for lack of a stronger word). Extending Rudolph's covid parallel, it brings to mind the meme that circulated: "My freedom doesn't end where your fear begins."
Agreed.
The "Current Thing" zealots I know are all neurotic messes, thoroughly infantilized, desperate for attention. They struggle to maintain close relationships. They'd be pitiable if they weren't so eagerly useful to powerful, cynical, psychopathic people. Their utility lies in their zealotry. Their normal condition is moral panic in service to brutal authoritarians.
The go along to get along people are frightened by them. Any entanglement brings a howling digital mob, career or job cancelation, opprobrium in the perjured media, and social isolation. Their passivity makes them the anaesthetized zombie hosts for the zealot botnet.
People wiser than me say that the best thing to do is to keep speaking calm reason, seek out the like-minded and organize whatever mutual aid is possible. There's a chance the go-alongs will tire of the abuse. Thanks for speaking calm reason!
And maybe their bank accounts are being boosted...
Good point. Some of them do get Judas payouts. The payouts typically go to the cynics who are good at exploiting the much more numerous hysterical chumps. The chumps often end up subsidizing their exploiters, and they also struggle with each other for tribal status. It's ugly, to say the least.
You said it. What an "interesting time," eh?
Thank you for so simply and humanely articulating why this all bothers you. You summed it up beautifully. These trends are deeply concerning for all the reasons you say and the need some people seem to have to vilify anyone who shares your concerns is deeply worrying. I am with you.
Thanks!
I try my best. I really don't want people to be hurt, or discriminated against. I want everyone to be able to live as happy and fulfilled life as possible within the constraints that a functioning society naturally has to impose.
I just think the gender fruitloops are going about it in precisely the wrong way. It seems a program of maximising damage, not minimising it.
Good response.
You could have also just printed Part 1, Chapter 7 of 1984 in its entirety.
"Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense."
Although it's something of a cliché to say so, we really do seem to be living in Orwellian times. Mind you, there is a reason why clichés are clichés!
Orwell was horribly prescient - and I wish the clever bugger had been wrong.
Yes. So that we are no longer sure of what is actual sanity and what isn't.
All roads lead to Rome. Gender-affirming care = sterilization.
Good point!
It matters because to the mad, the puritan and the progressive there's no terminus. Due to how their respective pattern of thought, action and reaction is construed there cannot even exist anything but a hypothetical endpoint. This is so since they all in their own way are utopian (or eutopian if you prefer) and a utopia in the sense of perfect state of being or indeed there ever being a perfect state is a logical impossibility:
If a state of being can change to the better, it cannot ever be or have been perfect. As the unattainable goal is placed before all else (which -ism or equivalent isn't relevant) any cost that have any chance to bring that goal closer is justified and moral. No act in service of the cause can be evil or wrong, at best it is a regrettable sacrifice on the path to enlightenment and perfection.
That is why it matters. That is this must be opposed, everywhere in every shape it takes, because else it just escalates.
It's like standing guard.
"Halt" (unknown intruder advances)
"Halt or I fire" (unknown intruder advances)
"Halt! <Fires warning shot> (unknown intruder advances)
<Shoots intruder>
Now, imagine you never yelled "Halt!" but just shot the intruder straight away. That is what will happen when or if there's a critical mass reached among the greater populace on these issues. Imagine the pakistanis colonising parts of Britain protesting this the way they are used to protest and handle apostates, heretics and deviants at home.
So by crying out "Halt!", you and I and everyone else opposing or exposing stuff like this are doing everyone (even the pervoids) a favour.
The "intruder" already knows they are intruding, and have no need for warning.
Well yes, but in the case of RR's topic(s), the intruder is intruding with intent and does ot think of pronoun-self as an intruder; rather, the avantgarde trans-ients see themselves as a Jaeger-corps infiltrating the enmies' lairs.
These kinds of groups of people do not view themselves as themselves should they ever consciously try to use metacognition - they see themselves as the Protagonist on the the Hero's Journey, rising up against the Evil that has enthralled the land under its claims to reality and truth.
And since it is quite nice not to shoot people until they are verified as a threat, metaphorically or literally, the sentinel should give fair warning, don't you think?
A friend would identify themselves if not expected. Anything else approaching the established boundary is foe, intruder, or worse.
I know this is over simplified, but the point I was trying to make is how the sane are made to over compensate, bend over backwards, turn the other cheek, accept the fringe, tolerate the intolerable and give warnings, while the critical theory horde is allowed to trespass, infiltrate and defecate wherever and whenever they please.
There are boundaries and limits for reasons, and it is long past time we recognize that.
We are in agreement, absolutely. We have allowed tolarance to mean servitude.
You ask the question, "what kind of society we are in the process of constructing?" I am inclined to answer that this is the (perhaps attempted) DE-struction of society. It seems to me that if you look at the list of the CIA tactics of how to destroy a country/society/community from the inside, then what we're seeing is on that list... All about Divide and Conquer, confusion, setting people into this side against that side, posing fake questions about fake problems... In short, everything we're seeing in the USA right now that isn't a reaction to what is being foisted on us to make us want civil war, or at least hatred of the "other." We're looking at a giant psy-op with this whole "pandemic" thing, already, are we not? The "climate crisis," the "food shortages" (which are real, perhaps, but deliberate), the "lone gunman shootings," and so on... All fake. And I propose that all this so-called "gender dysphoria" that has suddenly blossomed in our children and pubescent youth is fake, too. This is the kind of warfare that the CIA does, and has practiced up for all these years since its creation. PSY OP. These last two years, I think that FIRST when I hear of something weird going on, and then look for proof it ISN'T that.
I very much fear you are right WH
The 'problem-reaction-solution' cycle.
My current hypothesis is that this destabilization is deliberate and being driven to create a polarization and hatred between two 'opposing' sides. They're goading people into extreme reactions so that, eventually, they have to 'step in' to 'solve' the problem with tighter societal controls.
Which I think is pretty much what you outlined.
Programmable digital currencies, bonuses for 'environmentally responsible' behaviour, censorship mediated by 'private' corporations, establishment of laws to punish 'misinformation', freezing of bank accounts if you support the 'wrong' cause, etc. They're slowly, but surely, building a comprehensive toolkit to achieve a degree of population control orders of magnitude worse than anything humanity has ever had to endure.
We've known for a while there's a plan to take over our financial autonomy... what are credit cards for, anyway?? lol But according to James Corbett and many others, the plans are in place, and the crackdown is coming soon. SOON.
If you have your money in a bank, which most of us do, (even me, and I have like, 5 cents), make sure you're using a LOCAL bank, not a NATIONAL bank, and try to keep some cash stash somewhere safe and NOT in a bank. It's gonna get VERY VERY localized, maybe.
Good source for ideas is Solari Report https://home.solari.com/
Let me come at this from a different angle. Generally, when going about my business in the woke UK, my approach is completely ignore the trans ideology stuff. If drawn, I might say 'I don't do identity politics'. There's too much else going on and, compared to the realities of life outside affluent western countries, it just sounds like so many spoilt children screaming for attention.
But if asked in a group for my pronouns, I could also say: "I identify as an animist. My pronouns are: 'sentient/being'." It would come across as a joke, but there's a serious point here: when encountering a new person my first thought is not about their gender or social label. Or shouldn't be, if I'm relating authentically. That stuff is inevitable, but it comes later. At the introduction stage, all that's important is the encounter between two living beings. And there's always a context informing the priorities of the first moments: does the person need help? (I'm someone who gets asked for directions a lot) Or: do we get on? Is this going to be an important relationship? There is so much in the business of meeting other living beings that is not about labels and correctness.
Perhaps, if I understand your comment properly, until recently we have tended to instantly "already know" what gender someone is, and we "size them up" upon first glance, make assumptions that until recently have been "natural," and all that sort of obvious human stuff, which is no longer necessarily obvious, was not dwelt upon, questioned, or even consciously considered! Now everyone is on edge lest they insult a person. It just feels to me that ALL this stuff we're seeing over the past nearly three years is manufactured mindfuckery.
The same authoritarian science-cult mindset that pushes experimental mRNA technologies on the masses and then ruthlessly censors and demonizes anyone who speaks up about the problems is the exact same authoritarian science-cult mindset that pushes "gender affirmation" and dubious experimental procedures on *young children* and then ruthlessly censors and demonizes anyone who speaks up about the problems.
Hormones and puberty blockers are being used off-label and they have no idea of the long-term consequences on a mass scale. It is the exact same underlying issue. And it matters because *children* are being *hurt* by this, and their lives destroyed.
I've been meaning to write up an article on this parallel and will try to do so soon.
You are being much to kind to the enablers. Those who's mental stability and factual balance has been distorted by the psyop Soma of anything and everything whenever, wherever, all the time, no boundaries, no expectations ... no reality, are being abused by the enablers. Those are the ones who have perpetuated this insanity. And they know what they are doing, it is not accidental.
Genderwoo is another enemy of humanity.
Right. And I'm happy that Christians by and large figured out that pronouns aren't just pronouns, I'm endorsing a certain set of beliefs. The same was true for masks but very many of us were fooled on that one.
"It's only wrong when the other side does it. Everything my side does is completely justified because we're good people."
Good article. But...
Maaaaaan, don't include "ride a bicycle" in with the inherently wretched "eat ze bugs & live in ze pod". Lots people _like_ being bicycle commuters.
My neighbors and I pay a substantial rent premium to live in a place where riding a bicycle for daily transport actually makes sense. (And then save that extra rent money right back by not paying to own a car.)
But I get where you're coming from - it's the coercion. Forcing people to ride a bicycle is wrong. Let it be a market choice.
There's a not insubstantial part of the American population that _wants_ to ride bikes everywhere. Housing cost in bicycle friendly areas are almost always higher than nearby car-only areas. Pretty clear evidence of market demand. Money talks & bullshit walks.
The average bicycle commuter is just someone who personally enjoys riding a bike more than driving a car. We have no interest in forcing you to ride a bicycle - much less forcing you to eat bugs and live in a pod.
But we probably will try to make the city council slow down traffic and build bike lanes. So y'all motorists don't run us over and kill us.
Freedom, localism, and market choice FTW.
It wasn't meant to be an attack on bike riding - which is a great way of getting around and exercising. The point was really about the **imposition** of this on the 'plebs'.
GREAT parallels! A social engineering pattern, perhaps?
"By forcing everyone into the same ideological straitjacket we lose any flexibility or ability to develop a better understanding of the real issues." - The key words there being "REAL issues," that are being explained away as "gender dysphoria"; such as the NORMAL confusion that accompanies adolescence, or the result of childhood trauma, or (as is currently being theorized) a component of ASD, or even young children simply enjoying playing dress-up and/or playing with 'other-gender' toys. ALL very REAL and LEGIT experiences we should be focusing on, rather than just knee-jerkingly labeling them "gender dysphoria."
For me, it is also about language and its objectively understood meaning. We are language mammals, our language proficiency being a major distinguisher of our species. The rules and premises of our legal sytems and the sciences are based upon the agreed meanings of terms.
Concepts like equal rights or non-discrimation are familiar in liberal western democracies and are hard to argue against but I take issue with the Orwellian redefining of cornerstones of our societies language under a bait and switch of minority rights.
Case in point: gay marriage was presented as a classic equal rights issue. However, at root it was a review of what marriage had been and ultimately a constitutional redefinition of what it is. I was open to such a discussion but nobody wanted to debate with me, they were only interested in supporting equal rights and oblivious to the implicit redefining of marriage.
The push for trans rights is being presented in a similar fashion (notwithstanding that marriage IS a social construct and not an intrinsic characteristic of biological life). I am open to a discussion about gender roles in our societies or about the broad range of masculinity/femininity that men/women can have. But again, nobody wants to have that discussion anymore, instead they simply bleat about minority rights, presume I am a bigot, and ignore the stealth redefinition of what a man/woman is and all the legal & practical consequences.
Thanks for the post. As you know I've been interested in the nuances of this trans extremism, recognizing the small number of people the trans issue really applies to and having compassion for them. Then I was angry and stood up against the over reach into women's sports and women's bathrooms and locker rooms. And then my Mama Bear protection arose when they started messing with children, encroaching on children's lives, and this is why I think we need to keep this issue on the front burner. Adults can handle themselves, but we need to protect our children from the extremism (all the while knowing that one child out of a million is trans). We also protect our children by recognizing what you said, the trans extremism is part of an emerging fascism or authoritarianism in our country. We now have medical fascism, we've had an arising liberal fascism, and I used to be more concerned with a possible Christian religious fascism, but now they are amongst my closest allies against the medical fascism and protection of children! Strange bedfellows. 😄
I remember another substacker wrote a post about how the trans movement is realy the seeds of a transhuman movement. They thought the purpose of the trans extremism is to lay the foundation for combining human tissue with technology and computers - the internet of bodies. In this future we would be associating more through computers than human to human. They made a case that the trans extreme movement we see now isn't really about the small number of trans people, it's the foundation for the implementation of transhumanism. Was that you? As I write that I think of the recent interview that Naomi Wolf did. She is sensing an certain spark or aliveness missing in people who have taken this vaccine injection. She's done a lot of research into how the vaccine injection affects the testes and ovaries. She said that there's a certain sexual aliveness missing... and I know our sexual energy is a part of our overall human energy and aliveness. She feels like that is dampened down in liberal cities, like she can feel it in the air, and I have another friend who felt the same way in Amsterdam last month. Dampening down that human sexual spark that can happen with one another, whether you're in a sexual relationship or not, would be integral to transitioning towards transhumanism, and away from nature and one another.
It would also play nicely into the eugenicists' goals of the WEF (Schwab, Gates, et al).
As for that weird feeling Naomi Wolf mentions, I've noticed that, as well, with friends and relatives who got the jab(s). They often seem "out of it" mentally/cognitively; forgetful, confused, unsure, lacking clarity. The only other 'pureblood' I know has noticed it, too. There's definitely something strange happening with them.
It wasn't me who made the point about transhumanism - but it's a very interesting perspective.
The hubris of mankind knows no bounds!
I think they've been reading too many science-fiction novels.