This feels dead to rights. Not only does it feed (lol) into the gray goo ideology, where no bodies are "healthier" than any others, but it absolves the managerial caste of having to address how its rule has inflicted a much lower standard of bodily living on its subjects
Liberalism loathes having to pass judgment, since it sees itself as holding no real authority to do that, so it never intended to do anything about this
Luckily, its leftward wing has provided it with the escape hatch of a liberation movement—being crazy fat was good all along
Since liberalism can't pass judgment, it's incapable of curbing problems—including all the new ones it's created—except through the one means it does (or did) well: science/tech
Since it hasn't managed to invent an anti-fat pill, it has to turn to ideological solutions instead
Of course, these aren't actual "solutions," they're just reality-distortions that sweep its flaws under the rug.
It's a symbiotic relationship, which is why liberalism is so happy to have the gray goo as its partner: what could be better, than nothing ever being your fault?
This ultra-comfortable symbiosis means that modern liberalism has no corrective measures—only destabilizing ones.
It will continue to delegitimize itself, and generally degrade quality of life, until it can learn to integrate reform into itself, or forces itself to be replaced.
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"Age of consent" arguments are the absolute worst, because N. Europeans (and I believe steppes) didn't need them, yet largely abided by them, but for reasons largely irrelevant to modern reasons, so there were sometimes exceptions, so it becomes a complete ideological grab-bag
Medieval records get into this also, but if you are an Amerikaner, I recommend you go look at your family tree to see what was actually happening within the marriages of your colonial ancestors
The patterns are both very clear, but also show some exceptions
Here is exactly how it worked, in America, along my lines: early colonists married young, and with tight age gaps.
In 1650s Virginia, you had 14-year-old girls marrying—to 16-year-old boys
In 1750s German PA, you had 17-year-old girls marrying 19- to 23-year-old men
Modern people act like early childhood education is a magical substance that finally makes brains bigger, as if the education medieval + prehistoric children got in helping their families survive/not get killed by nature was somehow less "real" than this, or learning that 2+2 = 5
We have been brainmaxxing our children since the dawn of time, parents have always been training them to be as useful and knowledgable as possible to not succumb to Malthus
As much as "neuroplasticity" is real we've been maxing it out in kids since before homo sapiens existed
Mass education serves two purposes:
1) Installing the culture's religious/moral values in children, and
2) Identifying kids who are unusually talented for whatever their background might be, and allowing them to pursue those talents beyond what they would have been able to
CRT is best understood as a kind of cordyceps on the body of liberalism, a foreign fungus that redirects the interests of the liberal body ("human flourishing") to that of the fungus (progressivism, equity, the human fungus-patch: i.e. the gray goo of the leftist end-goal)
Any form of conservatism that recognizes this is a quantum leap forward akin to the monkeys finding the monolith
But liberals who want to preserve themselves need to understand why they're uniquely vulnerable to this cordyceps—and then engineer a penicillin against it
This is extremely difficult for liberalism to pull off, since it's at root a part of the left, and finds the process of adopting the rightist penicillin as painful as the sculptor who attempts to carve himself from out of his own stone
Rare disagree. Crowdsourcing's already been ahead of the curve on menstrual irregularities and myocarditis/heart attacks stemming from the vax, and the jury's still out on some other issues
If anything the IDW is just not good at pattern-matching. That's why they're in the IDW
"Smart" skepticism of the vax is a lot harder when science has been repurposed to something other than science. Even after science has finally caught up to the myocarditis problems in young men/boys, it's still pushing this. Uh okay, thanks CDC and WHO
Crowdsourcing is a mess and full of bias, so the frequency that it's been ahead of the curve despite these problems is pretty big
It's bad science, but so is Science!. It can at the very least be used to triangulate/get things on your radar to moderate risk
I have a bad memory, but I can still remember with incredible clarity how the boy had to swim back down into the lake and look at the fish-eaten corpse of that dead pilot in order to bring back what he needed to survive
I'm sure "My Daddies" will resonate just as strongly though
I spent a great deal of my childhood wandering around in the woods by myself, and if I have boys of my own, I want to give them the same.
I'm going to have to find them books like HATCHET, rather than any of these alien texts, that are all written to make their lives worse.
I could be stupid but it feels like progs are on the defensive about CRT in schools right now. You can almost hear the 900-person Zoom calls spinning up in the background to discuss the ways they need to reengineer the propaganda to keep pushing it forward.
Always safest to bet on cynicism, but if the right has finally mustered the guts to fight the culture war like a real war, the odds of the Great Stalemate (two systems, one country) are going to jump by a lot
A Great Stalemate is one of the only ways I see out of this, because my basic operating theory is that neoliberalism has cut out its own guts that would be necessary to use force against states that just say "No—and what are you going to do about it?"