Thanks for the discerning take and a lucid account of an irony-drenched, labyrinthine cultural moment. So, how long before the gravitational pull of biological reality actually gains ground on the current madness? Or has it peaked? Social media seems to have reached a kind of zenith moment that it couldn’t sustain, at least in some quarters. As a retirement-aged cis white guy, my first reaction to the budding trans craze a few years back was ‘what’s wrong w/being gay?’, a response that didn’t seem to register. Glad to know after all this time that I wasn’t alone after all.
Hi, Lorenzo. An interesting and challenging essay, as ever. I'd like to check if I have missed something somewhere. You take "feminism's attacks on male freedom of association" as a given, which is unlike you. It's an allegation I've seen before, of course, but the examples given have always been very sketchy and trivial (golf clubs, etc). Where is your evidence for the assertion to be found? Have you covered it in a previous essay that I missed?
Do you think this sort of maddening belief system was inevitable given the level of decadence and comfort in our culture? Basically, if this ideological insurrection at the university hadn’t happened, do you think crazy ideology would have shown up anyway?
Xtian heresy? From the perspective of Augustino-Theodosian "orthodoxy"/bullshit maybe. Early doors Xtianity was a very heterodox thing that could encompass JC saying: "Don't worry, Pete bro'; I'll make Mary a man." and Paul being "All things to all men". Judaeo-Christiano-Islam has ever been a chameleon shape-shifting bollocks seeking to takes us in with verbal nonsense with knobs on from the opening verses of Genesis trying to pass as the science of the day with liberal doses of Platonic woo that would carry right on into the Apocalypse of John. Rome was to do the same with Galileo and claiming they too were only doing "science". Please, can we just kill this cancer once and for all? The hole is hole-shaped and "God" has nought to do with it except to have been carefully crafted in all instantiations to fit in the hole like an opiode latching onto and usurping a neuro-receptor. If 'Woke' is a "heresy"; so are the various flavours of Protestant Xtianity. It is like Marxism and Protestantism: a Re-formation of the same material. Just as Chihauhas and Greyhounds remain Wolves.
Thanks for the discerning take and a lucid account of an irony-drenched, labyrinthine cultural moment. So, how long before the gravitational pull of biological reality actually gains ground on the current madness? Or has it peaked? Social media seems to have reached a kind of zenith moment that it couldn’t sustain, at least in some quarters. As a retirement-aged cis white guy, my first reaction to the budding trans craze a few years back was ‘what’s wrong w/being gay?’, a response that didn’t seem to register. Glad to know after all this time that I wasn’t alone after all.
Hi, Lorenzo. An interesting and challenging essay, as ever. I'd like to check if I have missed something somewhere. You take "feminism's attacks on male freedom of association" as a given, which is unlike you. It's an allegation I've seen before, of course, but the examples given have always been very sketchy and trivial (golf clubs, etc). Where is your evidence for the assertion to be found? Have you covered it in a previous essay that I missed?
Do you think this sort of maddening belief system was inevitable given the level of decadence and comfort in our culture? Basically, if this ideological insurrection at the university hadn’t happened, do you think crazy ideology would have shown up anyway?
Please more examples of what not to notice.
Do you have any advice for surviving the collapse of a civilization/ society?
Xtian heresy? From the perspective of Augustino-Theodosian "orthodoxy"/bullshit maybe. Early doors Xtianity was a very heterodox thing that could encompass JC saying: "Don't worry, Pete bro'; I'll make Mary a man." and Paul being "All things to all men". Judaeo-Christiano-Islam has ever been a chameleon shape-shifting bollocks seeking to takes us in with verbal nonsense with knobs on from the opening verses of Genesis trying to pass as the science of the day with liberal doses of Platonic woo that would carry right on into the Apocalypse of John. Rome was to do the same with Galileo and claiming they too were only doing "science". Please, can we just kill this cancer once and for all? The hole is hole-shaped and "God" has nought to do with it except to have been carefully crafted in all instantiations to fit in the hole like an opiode latching onto and usurping a neuro-receptor. If 'Woke' is a "heresy"; so are the various flavours of Protestant Xtianity. It is like Marxism and Protestantism: a Re-formation of the same material. Just as Chihauhas and Greyhounds remain Wolves.
Posturing, virtue-signalling bullies. No wonder politicians love them.