Wokeness is the terminal stage of the emancipatory project -- it is what ensues when we have reached a zero sum equilibrium of universal recognition at the End of History and attempts to extract further "progress" yield diminishing marginal returns and generate uncontrollable feedback effects as manufactured oppressions proliferate and the zombified corpses of older oppressions are propped up rhetorically to justify the cannibalization of the rights of all by fetishists and other vanguardists redefining health, competency, and the reality principle itself as functions of oppression
Vonnegut's short stories Harrison Bergeron and the Ethical Suicide Parlor are highly predictive of the present conjuncture
The bizarre and scabrous stories that Reduxx covers are writing the epitaph of a civilization in real time
Today's Year Zero podcast is a long interview with @heterodorx about why he spent the spring and summer urging state legislatures to impose age restrictions on the practice of pediatric gender medicine wesleyyang.substack.com/p/heres-the-bo…
"Every single state that there's a gender clinic, there's going to be another Chloe Cole. It's going to be a riot. And when you've got 50, or 150, or 350, or 500 litigants…trying all of these different theories to try to make these poor kids whole again…one of them is going to crack. And then it's going to be over. It is going to be completely over. That's inevitable. But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to run ahead of that, and still prevent more victims in the future."
The truck is a running exhibition of the fact that GLAAD's efforts to control NYT coverage of this issue from within failed when it turned out that their dogmas were not evidence based and could not withstand reasoned scrutiny
Especially after the NYT simply batted aside its prior attempt to coerce them with an open letter, the resumption of the truck is a frank confession of an organization in disarray.
Time for the NYT to start investigating them.
The NYT will never be able to tell the whole truth until the whole thing has unraveled -- until the inquest that will as a matter of certainty someday arrive has been completed -- but they can put certain realities on the record along the way and hasten the day when the inquest arrives
"Let us take note: if the greengrocer had been instructed to display the slogan "I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient;' he would not be nearly as indifferent to its semantics, even though the statement would reflect the truth. The greengrocer would be embarrassed and ashamed to put such an unequivocal statement of his own degradation in the shop window, and quite naturally so, for he is a human being and thus has a sense of his own dignity. To overcome this complication, his expression of loyalty must take the form of a sign which, at least on its textual surface, indicates a level of disinterested conviction. It must allow the greengrocer to say, "What's wrong with the workers of the world uniting?" Thus the sign helps the greengrocer to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience, at the same time concealing the low foundations of power. It hides them behind the facade of something high. And that something is ideology."
The sign swiftly goes from being a positive affirmation to its absence being interpreted as a mark of "hate" -- thus we are one by one coerced into pledging fealty to the sterilization of autistic, gay, mentally ill, and gender nonconforming children who have been inducted into an online cult as the price of equal citizenship
Universal daycare has been proven to damage the children who have been through it. It may well be at the root of an ongoing child mental health care crisis.
Demonstrated declines in non-cognitive skills may be on a continuum with mental health diagnoses and dramatic increases in obesity that share in common a lack of self-regulation
When a mother reported that a man wearing a wig tried to look under a stall where her daughter was changing at a pool in BC, Canada, the staff told her that she could be arrested herself for having confronted the man, who claimed to have a human right to be present in the women's… https://t.co/YSR5uEfRD3twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Every few weeks Reduxx reports on a face-melting scandal involving institutional depravity of u speakable proportions that has become routine in Western nations and that is subject to a total media blackout outside of the Daily Mail and a few US conservative outlets
For a while I was wary of this new upstart publication as their headlines seem sensationalized. Eventually I saw how thoroughly sourced all their facts were and realized that the stories are really just as crazy as they appear