While I applaud those courageous individuals for sacrificing their careers to voice their opposition to toxic policies, stepping down simply means their positions will be filled by complicit bootlickers.
My preference would be to see the brave ones remain in their posts and loudly expose the corruption—better to force the organizations to fire them and reveal the mafioso rot underlying these organizations.
Inevitably they will end up cancelling each other. We are already seeing evidence of this where feminists and lesbians - accomplished cancellers in their time - are being ostracised for insisting they are women, contrary to the ‘transgender’ orthodoxy.
All true, except consideration for the circle of life. If we hold the space for 20 years, the kids not destroyed by Covid, drugs, and idiotic provably false social “theories” will rise to the top over the children of these weak fools creating unnecessary chaos. If we don’t hold the space it could take much longer, or the strong who rise could be much more terrifying.
Either way - hard times make strong men - strong men make good times - good times make weak men - weak men make hard times............. and so the cycle continues.
It seems like Europe is ahead of us on this cycle. This winter weak men making very very hard times will be inescapable. Let’s hope the strong who rise are on the better half of humanity. It might be a peak into our own future here.
The collapse of character is a problem, but be even more concerned by the collapse of competency. The woke movement is about a generation old now, and with each generation, we will enjoy the work of doctors, pilots, engineers, and government officials who are hired, retained, and tenured based on their ability to swim with the commissariat.
What hope? I asked a philosopher (a good one, not a prestigious, conventional one) a similar question decades ago. He replied: Only the kind of abstract hope due to the human potential. Until inroads are made in private education, I don't know that significant change for the better is possible. "Give me the child until the age of seven, and I will give you the man," as Ignatius Loyola allegedly wrote. Too many people have too many investments (including psychological) in the statist quo and don't understand they would be better off in a rational culture with free countries (and human centric, reasonable private schools). Until then, I hope we can continue to coast without economic cataclysm while tiny (but hopefully significant) inroads are made. More minds need to change, and I don't know that that's possible when too many people are told what to think (and not taught how to think).
I suppose we ought not be surprised that the generation born with a Fb page, who grew up with a phone attached to their hand, on soft and safe playgrounds, taught to reject name-calling and/or bullying of others, and, heaven-forbid, ever seeing others as distinctly different individuals, now as "adults" simply feel threatened by words they don't like. I grew up with "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me." We know that's not true, but it was the mentality that made for resilient achievers. The pendulum has swung way too far and it will never create health in this cancel culture.
This is "The Emperor's New Clothes" writ large. The little boy who points out the obvious-- in our tale is accused of disinformation. In some versions of the story, the crowd laughed at the king when their self-deception was un-masked. I think laughter combined with a deeply serious approach to the issues that face us is the way forward.
Bill Mahre is not a match with me ideologically. But I respect that he is willing to call out the lack of clothing when he sees it. We need more of this.
It nothing new. The tactic of authoritarians /bullies/ the left has always been to call the other side names. They have no arguments and no real Ability other than to inflame the mob
This has long been a concern of mine as I watch the people of integrity resigning from positions of authority while obsequious colluders (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling) rise to greater prominence.
While I applaud those courageous individuals for sacrificing their careers to voice their opposition to toxic policies, stepping down simply means their positions will be filled by complicit bootlickers.
My preference would be to see the brave ones remain in their posts and loudly expose the corruption—better to force the organizations to fire them and reveal the mafioso rot underlying these organizations.
the media are to blame, turn them off!
Inevitably they will end up cancelling each other. We are already seeing evidence of this where feminists and lesbians - accomplished cancellers in their time - are being ostracised for insisting they are women, contrary to the ‘transgender’ orthodoxy.
All true, except consideration for the circle of life. If we hold the space for 20 years, the kids not destroyed by Covid, drugs, and idiotic provably false social “theories” will rise to the top over the children of these weak fools creating unnecessary chaos. If we don’t hold the space it could take much longer, or the strong who rise could be much more terrifying.
Either way - hard times make strong men - strong men make good times - good times make weak men - weak men make hard times............. and so the cycle continues.
It seems like Europe is ahead of us on this cycle. This winter weak men making very very hard times will be inescapable. Let’s hope the strong who rise are on the better half of humanity. It might be a peak into our own future here.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst....Are full of passionate intensity."
Yeats was right.
The collapse of character is a problem, but be even more concerned by the collapse of competency. The woke movement is about a generation old now, and with each generation, we will enjoy the work of doctors, pilots, engineers, and government officials who are hired, retained, and tenured based on their ability to swim with the commissariat.
What hope? I asked a philosopher (a good one, not a prestigious, conventional one) a similar question decades ago. He replied: Only the kind of abstract hope due to the human potential. Until inroads are made in private education, I don't know that significant change for the better is possible. "Give me the child until the age of seven, and I will give you the man," as Ignatius Loyola allegedly wrote. Too many people have too many investments (including psychological) in the statist quo and don't understand they would be better off in a rational culture with free countries (and human centric, reasonable private schools). Until then, I hope we can continue to coast without economic cataclysm while tiny (but hopefully significant) inroads are made. More minds need to change, and I don't know that that's possible when too many people are told what to think (and not taught how to think).
Cancel culture stems from commissar grooming, just like the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-groom-commissars
I suppose we ought not be surprised that the generation born with a Fb page, who grew up with a phone attached to their hand, on soft and safe playgrounds, taught to reject name-calling and/or bullying of others, and, heaven-forbid, ever seeing others as distinctly different individuals, now as "adults" simply feel threatened by words they don't like. I grew up with "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me." We know that's not true, but it was the mentality that made for resilient achievers. The pendulum has swung way too far and it will never create health in this cancel culture.
Cancel culture is to social media as vax mandates and DEI training are to the military.
This is "The Emperor's New Clothes" writ large. The little boy who points out the obvious-- in our tale is accused of disinformation. In some versions of the story, the crowd laughed at the king when their self-deception was un-masked. I think laughter combined with a deeply serious approach to the issues that face us is the way forward.
Bill Mahre is not a match with me ideologically. But I respect that he is willing to call out the lack of clothing when he sees it. We need more of this.
In other words, weak men produce hard times.
It nothing new. The tactic of authoritarians /bullies/ the left has always been to call the other side names. They have no arguments and no real Ability other than to inflame the mob
Determined to have a nation of safe space seeking SJW soy boys and girls.
The truth is always the truth no matter how much these brain-washed cancel-culture folks try to deny it.
When I was a teenager I recall reading here and there the saying "the meek shall inherit the earth"
I had no idea it would turn out the way it did