Trump isn't weird, he's extremely normal. The media/Deep State etc went into freakout mode when he connected with normal people, that's *why* they went insane
If DeSantis can't freak out our ruling class, then he will simply extend our ruling class
Arguing to the "normies" who already believe in this bullshit is a loser's game, at absolute best you get a short-lived reaction that swiftly passes. Much like Reagan
If you're not saying things that will get you got, you're already done
You have to awaken parts of them they thought were already dead. Theoden gripping his sword moments
*That* is what the ideology goes insane about. When our human instincts they'd reduced to ashes get inflamed again, by somebody willing to speak to them, and fan them back up.
There is no more "normalcy," you have to accept that is gone now, a relic of the past that can't be returned to.
You get to decide which new normal you choose: the one that thinks we're all the same
Or the guy who blurts out we should have more Norwegians and less Haitians
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This is what Houellebecq constantly describes through literature, the extension of thought embodied by Huxley ('30s) into Lennon ('60s), which H's own mother believed in, and left him raised by his grandparents, and when his characters live the same lifestyle, find deadening
Within H.'s "lived experience," the utopia of "Imagine nothing to kill or die for" means, in practice, being abandoned by your hedonist parents who hate you while watching your nation commit a paralyzed self-euthanasia because it hates itself
Leaving nothing
Do you guys ever just put the radio on while driving around, and listen to classic rock (sometimes "oldies" now), and listen to the lyrics, the stuff they were *hoping* for?
It's fucking weird. Deluded. Whatever they wanted, it's not human.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the first English translation of Houellebecq's first novel, WHATEVER, here is what he had to say about the impacts of therapy on those who most promote it
Compare to the average (former) blue check journalist and see if you disagree 🤔
Whenever someone promotes "therapy" or any of these other post-war idiocies, rather than a "fact-check" or whatever, they should just come attached with the absolute nastiest thing Houellebecq ever said on the subject
See which is more convincing, some journo, or H.
Btw this was an interesting Houellebecq in that it is definitely a "first novel" (at least his first novel able to publish)
The story is very thin but the voice and especially his observations are so sharp you see why they were compelled to publish it
Modern leftism is so dumb it thinks intelligence is advantageous in all environments when we, right now, are living in an era that is actively selecting for lower intelligence
But maybe this explains their existence
In case you want "proof," it's clear that intelligence was selected for in the Middle Ages, net-neutral in the early Industrial Age, and a clear negative in the Modern Age
If you don't think income/education was directly associated with G, you just might be... a modern leftist
Lmao. You are literally the guy who caused the ultra-leftist Brazilian Supreme Court to undo all of Pres. Luna's charges, just so you could get rid of Bolsonaro, the "threat to democracy" who might have actually reformed your hyper-authoritarian court
I'm sorry that your liberalism is dead, but it's certainly not the right that killed it, that's been made perfectly clear by the ruling powers' response to Trump, and Bolsonaro, etc. They're just reformers
But it's been made perfectly clear the regime will allow no reform.
I've always thought it was funny when people did the "You support censorship now, but just wait till they come for *you*!", because I never thought that would apply to the left
But it now, seemingly, does apply to Greenwald. Because the world he's fighting for no longer exists.
It's still insane to me that Hoeullebecq was making arguments like this a generation ago and I'm still only hearing them stated—at least this plainly—when I go back and read him
I believe this exhaustion is the fundamental condition of liberalism. Its Rosetta Stone
He hit this point even harder a few years later in The Elementary Particles, where he dramatized this condition as a paralysis that *leads* to the exhaustion
Infinite choice, total freedom, leads paradoxically to the inability to judge, and thus to act, subverting the will
The thing that *clobbered* me about Elementary Particles was how he also correctly diagnosed the two promises of post-War liberal human ascendance—science, and sex—and wrecked the both of them
It's made dramatically clear that something critically human is missing from both
The true nature of democracy—that it had already become this, and has been for a long time—was supposed to stay hidden
Say whatever you want about Trump, he got this, instinctively, and forced them to reveal this, that the entire thing is fake and gay
No part of this was inevitable. Except for Trump, we would have had Jeb, or Rubio, or maybe best case Cruz
But none of these would have *forced* the regime to step out from the curtain, and ban them, and prove they can and *will* ban the president if he opposes their ideology