In the early 1930s there was a Jewish journalist living in Germany. The journalist loved cats so he had a subscription to a cat magazine. At first the magazine had articles about grooming your cat, toys for your cat, what you would expect in a magazine dedicated to cats. /2
But as the 30s went on the journalist started noticing articles appearing in the magazine about the German cat. How the nature of German cats were superior. How essential the loyalty of German cats were. Slowly some variant of this message made it into every article. /3
For a long time progressives made great strides by transferring conflicts of moral vision out of the realm of the sacred and into the realm of the scientific
By making things cold, clinical, rational, and secular the left were able to deconstruct load bearing social norms 1/🧵
It's hard to sell the redefinition of marriage in a religious context, but if you can shift the discussion of sexuality to the realm of biological determinism then it becomes easy to advance your political ideology 2/
It doesn't matter if the left immediately abandons that biological determinism the minute it makes contact with any other social issue, they never really cared about the science
They just cared about the political victory it could deliver 3/
They’re trying to pull a head fake, giving one minor concession hoping conservatives will be satisfied
Meanwhile they turn to the LGBTQ mob and woke investors with a vague accusation of “violence” which allows them to pretend they are doing this for safety reasons 2/
As I explained previously these companies still need red America for their bottom line but they simultaneously need to appeal to the new elite religion
They can’t be seen directly concerning to the plebs 3/
For some the hope is that if you travel far enough up the chain of elites you eventually run into a competent set that don't believe the madness that has gripped the west
Sure they would be evil, but at least they would have a plan 1/🧵
It we be easier for us to believe that clown world was manufactured by rational actors with specific ends in mind, even if those ends were plainly evil, then to admit that rationality does not rule us the way we pretend it does 2/
We would rather see our reality as shaped by cool calculating forces, no matter how malevolent they might be, than admit that something beyond our control is acting on us as individuals and a wider culture 3/