Actually, they tied a rope to the accused and hauled them out if they started sinking. One Muslim commentator was astonished at the use of barrels of water to test guilt or innocence. “Drowned or guilty” is a typical later slander of the medievals.
Well, I don't know what they were complaining about then. You got a bath, cleaned your clothes, and if you were very quick with your hands, you might manage to catch a fish for dinner. Grand.
This is great and timely commentary. The use of the word 'hate' to describe disagreement (with radicals) is on the rise too, you cant read a newspaper in Canada today without seeing at least one headline (and probably several) claiming that either A) some 'hate' action has been perpetrated by some vague 'far-right hate group' or B) some marginalized community has been targeted by 'hate'. Frankly, its out control. Its really an attempt (as you say) for narcissists to gain attention, but its also a way for radicals to shut down speech opposing them. All sorts of good faith principled opposition to radical ideas and people is now framed as hate, it's simply an attempt to shut people up. Calling out this bad behavior, as you are (and I do too) is really important. Its especially dangerous when state institutions like school boards start using political rhetoric (using the word hate) to describe disagreement.
There are so many sociopathic, psychopathic and other forces of mental illness and civic derangemernt at work that one can't possibly know where to start in coping with, let alone curing, a sick society filled with sick mobs of sick people. We're like gaping primates slack-jawed at Biden's massive damage trying to figure out how to fix it.
No joke, I'm serious. How does one even describe it? Where does on begin to stop it then fix it? Where does one start what can't be finished is his lifetime and that of his grandchildren?
The best analogy I can make to our time has to be the age of the Gutenberg Press and the Protestant wars that followed. Smartphones plus constant internet access plus social media have rewired every brain and unsettled every prior arrangement, from culture to politics to sex to what it means to be human. Every revolutionary change in the means of communication is followed by a change in the entire structure of society.
And this Great Derangement also signals the beginning of another massive transition, where the human is dying out to be replaced by the Virtual Human, a computer-programmed domesticated animal who is part soma addict from Brave New World, part grunting dunce who knows nothing but his own desires a la Idiocracy, and who feels happiest when engaging in communal hatred a la 1984.
I think the urge to righteous victimhood is sort of a canary in the coalmine, or moths looking for their flame, with the lost soul crying for the State to change its nappies and stick a virtual binky in his/her mouth, and the State more than happy to tend to all of her victimized children.
The Great Derangement is like a hurricane destroying all in its path, and the only way to safety has to be some type of withdrawal or renunciation.
Fine synposis and the most prescient paragraph I've read not written by Thomas Sowell or Jordan Peterson."Well said" is so damn trite and so trivial for the great task that I won't say "Well said."
haha, my wife said something almost identical the other day in describing the current world we live in as being somewhere in between Brave New World and Idiocracy.
i forgot to add Nietzsche's Last Man, but hey we're all on the same page here.
all the dystopic prophecies were written by brilliant people who could foresee almost everything except how deeply and stubbornly infantile their descendants would be.
I think you would enjoy Aussie Simon Sheridan’s series on the Devouring Mother during the ‘coronapocalypse’ - his take on Jungian archetypes -published as a book and also see his blog
"...we are currently subsidising victimhood and taxing resilience." Oh, yes. Resilience = toxic masculinity + white supremacy, don't you know?
I had a friend of a friend, a 25 year old woman who constantly posted on social media about her resilience and her journey to a place of inner peace and strength. In reality, she kept calling in sick to work because she was so upset about her disastrous affair with her married, much older boss. I keep seeing young people having no idea what resilience actually means, and when somebody tries to explain, it's rejected as being a cruel projection of their privilege.
The problem is that right now, it's not a poor strategy, but a socially snd even financially lucrative one, and I can't see that changing any time soon. Or to put it another way, the lunatics are running the asylum.
Jessie Jackson and AL Sharpton were keen on this. They "got their shakedown on" before social media existed! I believe that's why we don't really hear from them anymore. Their profit model is outdated.
False claims are rewarded now, because there is vast potential for political gain. False claims save political campaigns lots of money, because they have legs, and are self perpetuating.
We're not going to see the end of this until there is serious legal action brought against the perpetrators of false claims. I don't see that happening any time soon, because of the political aspect.
There's no political will to punish liars. In fact, it's the opposite.
Take Adam Schiff for example. He stopped the Trump impeachment hearing, went out to reporters -- and lied about what a witness said just minutes before. Then when he reentered the hearing, he was called out for it. Then he lied again and said he never told reporters that. It was completely unbelievable. One senator pulled up the CNN headline, already online, listing what Schiff had just lied about. I watched it all go down live. Nothing serious happened to Schiff, he got away with it. Nobody is going to do anything about it.
Might I add, accountability is no longer a virtue. In our current society, getting away with crimes is looked at as a virtue. Like Chamillionaire said, "Try to catch me ride'n dirty..." the idea being that, getting away with the crime is cool.
This is clearly an "idea whose time has come". Other websites are now discussing ways and means of containing these interlinked scourges of humanity... accusations of hate, accusations of emotional, psychological, and social rape, accusations of oppression of sexual minorities, and so on. The inescapable conclusion appears to be eliminate the perpetrators.
Me? I am just going to put my ancient feet up and enjoy the outcome. If perchance I am asked at any time, I will so enjoy raisng my down-turned thumb.
You may find this article interesting. It examines the (should be obvious) fact that vexatious litigants are, well, usually Cluster B personality disordered.
"Disorder in the Court: Cluster B Personality Disorders in United States Case Law"
Incredibly naive, isn’t it? I wish the kids (which due to my age I get to call anyone under 40, lol) would get a little life experience before college. They can’t seem to differentiate bad faith from good, in the very least, and at worst they get off on “queering” anything and everything, without understanding why things are the way they are.
Queer theory has got to go. I’m just about done with the current incarnation of academic feminism, as well, but I’d rather just rehabilitate it and make it a history class, instead of forever trying to find new complains.
I have a recollection of the Australian connection on this because I was working in Canberra (for an MP) during the relevant period.
Much of the "Believe" view of the law reminds me of the old witch trials, if she downs, she was innocent, if she floats, she's a witch
Actually, they tied a rope to the accused and hauled them out if they started sinking. One Muslim commentator was astonished at the use of barrels of water to test guilt or innocence. “Drowned or guilty” is a typical later slander of the medievals.
Well, I don't know what they were complaining about then. You got a bath, cleaned your clothes, and if you were very quick with your hands, you might manage to catch a fish for dinner. Grand.
But if you floated …
Shouldn't be a witch then. Simple as.
Putting a hex on my crops and whatnot, it's not on.
This is great and timely commentary. The use of the word 'hate' to describe disagreement (with radicals) is on the rise too, you cant read a newspaper in Canada today without seeing at least one headline (and probably several) claiming that either A) some 'hate' action has been perpetrated by some vague 'far-right hate group' or B) some marginalized community has been targeted by 'hate'. Frankly, its out control. Its really an attempt (as you say) for narcissists to gain attention, but its also a way for radicals to shut down speech opposing them. All sorts of good faith principled opposition to radical ideas and people is now framed as hate, it's simply an attempt to shut people up. Calling out this bad behavior, as you are (and I do too) is really important. Its especially dangerous when state institutions like school boards start using political rhetoric (using the word hate) to describe disagreement.
There are so many sociopathic, psychopathic and other forces of mental illness and civic derangemernt at work that one can't possibly know where to start in coping with, let alone curing, a sick society filled with sick mobs of sick people. We're like gaping primates slack-jawed at Biden's massive damage trying to figure out how to fix it.
No joke, I'm serious. How does one even describe it? Where does on begin to stop it then fix it? Where does one start what can't be finished is his lifetime and that of his grandchildren?
The best analogy I can make to our time has to be the age of the Gutenberg Press and the Protestant wars that followed. Smartphones plus constant internet access plus social media have rewired every brain and unsettled every prior arrangement, from culture to politics to sex to what it means to be human. Every revolutionary change in the means of communication is followed by a change in the entire structure of society.
And this Great Derangement also signals the beginning of another massive transition, where the human is dying out to be replaced by the Virtual Human, a computer-programmed domesticated animal who is part soma addict from Brave New World, part grunting dunce who knows nothing but his own desires a la Idiocracy, and who feels happiest when engaging in communal hatred a la 1984.
I think the urge to righteous victimhood is sort of a canary in the coalmine, or moths looking for their flame, with the lost soul crying for the State to change its nappies and stick a virtual binky in his/her mouth, and the State more than happy to tend to all of her victimized children.
The Great Derangement is like a hurricane destroying all in its path, and the only way to safety has to be some type of withdrawal or renunciation.
Fine synposis and the most prescient paragraph I've read not written by Thomas Sowell or Jordan Peterson."Well said" is so damn trite and so trivial for the great task that I won't say "Well said."
Bravo! Brava! Hear him, hear her! Hear, hear!
We come not to praise Biden but to bury him.
Thanks so much for the kind words, is very appreciated.
Cheers!
haha, my wife said something almost identical the other day in describing the current world we live in as being somewhere in between Brave New World and Idiocracy.
at least it’s sometimes entertaining..:/
i forgot to add Nietzsche's Last Man, but hey we're all on the same page here.
all the dystopic prophecies were written by brilliant people who could foresee almost everything except how deeply and stubbornly infantile their descendants would be.
I think you would enjoy Aussie Simon Sheridan’s series on the Devouring Mother during the ‘coronapocalypse’ - his take on Jungian archetypes -published as a book and also see his blog
https://simonsheridan.me/blog/
thanks!
i threw it on my reading pile...
"...we are currently subsidising victimhood and taxing resilience." Oh, yes. Resilience = toxic masculinity + white supremacy, don't you know?
I had a friend of a friend, a 25 year old woman who constantly posted on social media about her resilience and her journey to a place of inner peace and strength. In reality, she kept calling in sick to work because she was so upset about her disastrous affair with her married, much older boss. I keep seeing young people having no idea what resilience actually means, and when somebody tries to explain, it's rejected as being a cruel projection of their privilege.
The problem is that right now, it's not a poor strategy, but a socially snd even financially lucrative one, and I can't see that changing any time soon. Or to put it another way, the lunatics are running the asylum.
I admit I dragged out that old Fun Boy Three number last night. True and correct, I'm afraid.
C👁@ mgr to former employee🧑🏫
👁How are you? How is family?
(An actual human being<
‘Tucker belongs in jail for Vax injury misinformation’
🧑🏫“How are you!
But Tucker is using US VERS site data.”
👁“If that were true about VERS, it would be on CNN.”
>“IF THAT WERE TRUE IT WOULD BE ON CNN.” <
🧑🏫“YOU ARE LITERALLY A MEME”
Jessie Jackson and AL Sharpton were keen on this. They "got their shakedown on" before social media existed! I believe that's why we don't really hear from them anymore. Their profit model is outdated.
False claims are rewarded now, because there is vast potential for political gain. False claims save political campaigns lots of money, because they have legs, and are self perpetuating.
We're not going to see the end of this until there is serious legal action brought against the perpetrators of false claims. I don't see that happening any time soon, because of the political aspect.
There's no political will to punish liars. In fact, it's the opposite.
Take Adam Schiff for example. He stopped the Trump impeachment hearing, went out to reporters -- and lied about what a witness said just minutes before. Then when he reentered the hearing, he was called out for it. Then he lied again and said he never told reporters that. It was completely unbelievable. One senator pulled up the CNN headline, already online, listing what Schiff had just lied about. I watched it all go down live. Nothing serious happened to Schiff, he got away with it. Nobody is going to do anything about it.
Might I add, accountability is no longer a virtue. In our current society, getting away with crimes is looked at as a virtue. Like Chamillionaire said, "Try to catch me ride'n dirty..." the idea being that, getting away with the crime is cool.
And, here we are.
You seem to have probed a nerve Helen. Well done.
This is clearly an "idea whose time has come". Other websites are now discussing ways and means of containing these interlinked scourges of humanity... accusations of hate, accusations of emotional, psychological, and social rape, accusations of oppression of sexual minorities, and so on. The inescapable conclusion appears to be eliminate the perpetrators.
Me? I am just going to put my ancient feet up and enjoy the outcome. If perchance I am asked at any time, I will so enjoy raisng my down-turned thumb.
It's literally the victim complex and people capitalizing on it.
I'm reminded of Smolette's "Neo Nazis in Chicago that turned out to be two black gents from Africa, who he paid to do the deed..
Or maybe that Black Nascar driver that saw a noose on the garage door.
Maybe stop playing the victim and stop acting stupid before the stupid get what they want.
Bang on.
You may find this article interesting. It examines the (should be obvious) fact that vexatious litigants are, well, usually Cluster B personality disordered.
"Disorder in the Court: Cluster B Personality Disorders in United States Case Law"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6818303/
Fascinating (and unsurprising).
The relationship between Cluster B'ers and the Democrat Party must be studied. We need something to explain those deadly DemocRats.
Incredibly naive, isn’t it? I wish the kids (which due to my age I get to call anyone under 40, lol) would get a little life experience before college. They can’t seem to differentiate bad faith from good, in the very least, and at worst they get off on “queering” anything and everything, without understanding why things are the way they are.
Queer theory has got to go. I’m just about done with the current incarnation of academic feminism, as well, but I’d rather just rehabilitate it and make it a history class, instead of forever trying to find new complains.