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Transgender – The Inability To Distinguish Facts From Wishes
Matt Taibbi opines on the latest piece of transgender nonsense:
The Dumbest Cover Story Ever – Racket News, Mar 13 2024
New York Magazine's "Freedom of Sex" is the ultimate example of the lunatic nihilism that's consumed America's intellectual class
New York Magazine has a new cover story, by the trans writer Andrea Long Chu: “The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.” A jeremiad in support of the idea that children must have absolute political agency, it makes the Unabomber manifesto read like a Shakespeare sonnet. The money passage:
We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history.
A lot of the piece is standard-issue woe-is-me fuck-everything cartoon nihilism you’d hear from any laptop-class liberal arts product, arguing for a generalized smashing of the patriarchy, among other things by attacking the biological conspiracy to produce those units of material labor value known as babies. Complete abolition of norms would be an “impossible task,” Chu notes sadly, but that doesn’t preclude their “collective reimagining” by an alliance of intersectional victims working toward a Marxian paradise free of “oppressive systems,” which of course include the nuclear family.
The nihilism Taibbi points to is also the major theme the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd takes on in his book "The Defeat of the West".
From its New York Times review:
This Prophetic Academic Now Foresees the West’s Defeat (archived) – New York Times, Mar 9 2024
American leadership is failing: That is the argument of an eccentric new book that since January has stood near the top of France’s best-seller lists. It is called “La Défaite de l’Occident” (“The Defeat of the West”). Its author, Emmanuel Todd, is a celebrated historian and anthropologist who in 1976, in a book called “The Final Fall,” used infant-mortality statistics to predict that the Soviet Union was headed for collapse.
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Mr. Todd is not a moralizer. But he insists that traditional cultures have a lot to fear from the West’s various progressive leanings and may resist allying themselves on foreign policy with those who espouse them. In a similar way, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s official atheism was a deal-breaker for many people who might otherwise have been well disposed toward Communism.
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Mr. Todd does believe that certain of our values are “deeply negative.” He presents evidence that the West does not value the lives of its young. Infant mortality, the telltale metric that led him to predict the Soviet collapse half a century ago, is higher in Mr. Biden’s America (5.4 per thousand) than in Mr. Putin’s Russia — and three times higher than in the Japan of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
While Mr. Todd is, again, not judgmental on sexual matters, he is judgmental on intellectual ones. The inability to distinguish facts from wishes astounds him at every turn of the Ukraine war. The American hope early in the war that China might cooperate in a sanctions regime against Russia, thereby helping the United States refine a weapon that would one day be aimed at China itself, is, for Mr. Todd, a “delirium.”
Back in January Todd expanded on the inability of distinguishing facts from fiction, which is also the basis of trans-genderism, during an interview with Le Figaro. From its English translation:
Q: Over time, haven't you become a bit of a reactionary?
I was brought up by a grandmother who told me that, sexually speaking, all tastes are part of nature, and I'm faithful to my ancestors. So, LGB, welcome. For T, the trans issue is something else. The individuals concerned must of course be protected. But the fixation of the Western middle classes on this ultra-minority issue raises a sociological and historical question. To establish as a social horizon the idea that a man can really become a woman and a woman a man is to assert something that is biologically impossible, it is to deny the reality of the world, it is to assert the false.
Trans ideology is therefore, in my opinion, one of the flags of this nihilism that now defines the West, this drive to destroy not just things and people but reality. But, once again, I am in no way overwhelmed here by indignation or emotion. This ideology exists and I have to integrate it into a historical model. In the age of the metaverse, I can't say whether my attachment to reality makes me a reactionary.
The intentional denial of reality, as it is currently practiced in the West, is not a new phenomenon. It is the basis of neo-conservatism from where it has crept over to the progressive side.
As Ron Susskind wrote in his portrait of the first years of the Bush junior presidency:
Faith, Certainty And The Presidency Of George W. Bush (archived) – Ron Susskind / New York Times, Oct 17 2004
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Karl Rove, the Bush advisor Susskind had quoted, displayed the same lunatic nihilism that is represented by those who argue that children, teenagers or people generally should can freely chose their gender. It is an attempt of "creating other new realities". It represents a total denial of actual reality and of the common values derived from it. The Bush administration failed in its endeavor to create new realities in Iraq. The current regime in the West will fail likewise with regime change in Russia. So will others who deny realities.
The author of the Todd book review, Christopher Caldwell, adds:
Fighting a war based on values requires good values. At a bare minimum it requires an agreement on the values being spread, and the United States is further from such agreement than it has ever been in its history — further, even, than it was on the eve of the Civil War. At times it seems there are no national principles, only partisan ones, with each side convinced that the other is trying not just to run the government but also to capture the state.
I see a very similar denial of reality, followed by nihilism and a lack of values, at the top of the current European leadership. The loss of the common view of things is splitting societies on both sides of the Atlantic.
However, with regards to transgenderism, some sense of reality is still trying to survive:
National Health Service England stops prescribing puberty blockers, citing 'not enough evidence' – USA Today. Mar 13 2024
"We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of (puberty suppressing hormones) to make the treatment routinely available at this time," the publication by NHS England stated.
Puberty is a natural process which often includes a temporary confusion about ones identity. Blocking a kids puberty to further some ephemeral confusion some may have during those time is in my view criminal.
I even agree with Rishi Sunack on this:
U.K. prime minister on gender: ‘A man is a man and a woman is a woman’ – Washington Post, Oct 5 2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asserted his stance on gender identity in a speech Wednesday, stating it was “common sense” that “a man is a man and a woman is a woman” — a remark that sparked criticism from transgender rights activists and elicited fervent applause from attendees of the Conservative Party Conference.
I see myself, just like Matt Taibbi seems to see himself, as a progressive striving for a society based on some form of socialism and justice.
To then find myself on the same side of an issue as some staunch conservatives, and getting attacked for it, is mildly disturbing.
Is it really impossible to be reality based and on the left side of things?
1) be a fascist imperialist party that supports Nazis in Ukraine and Israel, and all the whims of the oppressive capitalists/billionaire at home;
2) let your party be called everything, from “progressive” and “Left-wing” and “Marxist”, to “liberal”.
3) pick a few “far-left” agents designed to bring those votes to your establishment, like Bernie and AOC;
4) in the elections cycle, insist this is a black and white issue, that the other party is racist, and that your party is the “good one”;
5) profit the most of a bi-partisan non-proportional nor representative regime, by getting elected just because “the other side has to be defeated” and “there is no alternative” or “they’re trying to control our state” or “we are the ones fighting for freedom, democracy, and human rights, and no one else”.
6) in the MainStreamMedia FakeNews, create consent for the Forever wars. Brutal assassin dictatorships are “good” because they’rr on your side. But representative non aggressive countries “have to be defeated”, because “we’re the only essential nation”, and “they are evil”, so that justifies all interventions, coups, invasions, sanctions, threats, and forever wars, be they direct or proxy;
7) have such a big network of agents in other “allied” countries, that they become afraid of even speaking about this, and accept to do things that harm their own countries, just so they can avoid a “colour revolution” and be good vassals enough to be considered in your corruption paychecks being distributed by an army of NGO and USAid and NED, etc.
8) have an academy of elites, costing dozens of thousands per year, where immediately any non elite is filtered at entrance, and in there create a bubble of alternative “reality”, and the corruptioj network of the future leaders. And they will sure be the future leaders, whether the people want it or not, but because the regime’s machine says so and is capable to enforce that globaly
9) dehumanise everyone. Foreigners are just “illegals”, people on “enemy” countries are just “the evil enemy’s supporters”, and at home the other party’s supporters are all “idiots” who “want to take away your freedoms”, or just statistics for the economy, that should be available for any need of the billionaire, and have no permanent rights, so that the billionaire can dispose of them at any time.
10) after the academy, create a think tank network to keep reinforcing the propaganda over the entire adulthood, and a way to also keep giving paychecks to those that no longer are in powerful positions. This way, the good vassals have an extra motivation, and the vassal regimes can make an alternance in power and pretend that’s “democracy” and “people’s choice, while keeping everything the exact same way.
In this regime, the western naZionist genocidal empire of forever wars and post-truth, where USA is the emperor, UK is the vice-emperor, and all others are pro-active vassals in the “collective west” (that stretches from Canada to Europe, from Japan to Australia, and whatever country anywhere has a USA puppet, ex: Argentina with Milei), all working for the Globalist agenda, set in Washington meetings, G7, Bilderberg, Davos, etc.
In these countries, where there’s no representative democracy, and execept for USA there’s also no sovereignty at all, the people are convinced that there’s a “fierce” fight between 2 sides, but there’s no fight at all. One one side the NeoLib+NeoCon that use LGBT+ flags. On the other side the NeoLib+NeoCon that use the Bibble. They are 2 sides, all right, but only 2 sides of the same coin: the western naZionist genocidal empire of forever wars amd post-truth.
And since the “end of history” (by the globalist Francis Fukuyama), it has been “1984” every year, and every year the regime becomes worse and worse in its “1984” characteristics (ex: the journalist and whistleblower Julien Assange will die without ever be free again). Until one day it will be defeated, by either a bloody revolution in the West (followed by the confirmation of the Multipolar era), or during the Third (LAST) World War, where all mankind is defeated under the nuclear holocaust.
PS: why ‘b’ talked about “Marxian”, Marxist, or Marx, is beyond my comprehension, but I was happy when I read the first 2 comments (by Dominic and SG). Indeed this description of Wokism as “Marxism” is a hoax used by McCarthyism, and ‘b’ somewhat fell for it. There is nothing Marxist about what’s going on in the West. In fact, what the West can be called (until recently with the exception of a few Nordic/Scandinavian countries) is anti-Marxist aka Fascist.
Posted by: Carlos Marques | Mar 15 2024 9:29 utc | 367
We are all born either male or female. There is nothing “non-binary” about that. If in doubt, look between your legs, you will find either a vagina or a penis. No exception, no ambiguity. That’s what you are. It determines whether you can or cannot become a mother, can or cannot become a father.
The degree to which our emotions and hormones polarize us into feeling and behaving more or less female, more or less male, is individual and is subject to change during life, as we become mature. That’s on a sliding scale, and it can go to the point of neutrality. But it’s an entirely different matter from sex.
People may – temporarily or permanently – have the impression that their feelings put them on the opposite side of the sliding scale, opposite to their biological reality. As B. said this is a normal phase of puberty. In a fringe minority of humans it may be a lasting condition which causes them permanent emotional stress. Some use an outlet like crossdressing or drag queen. This has been around for centuries and I’m fine with that, as long as they keep it to closed spaces where they don’t disturb or influence the public. It deserves tolerance, nothing more.
If, then, a fully grown adult, who can encompass the consequences and is able to bear the full cost and medical risk himself, takes the decision to have themselves surgically or chemically mutilated and do away with what they consider physically alien about their own body, let them do it. But those will be very rare cases.
And I believe that such emotionally troubled and/or mutilated individuals should never have a role of influence in society, should not be teachers or politicians, TV anchors or talkmasters, or lobbyists, should be kept away from children. And they should not have a right to view their self-choosen condition as deserving special treatment, attention, protection and financial compensation from society.
Our current Western trans/queer movement is something else and goes much further. It is a purely ideological indoctrination campaign detached from reality, making people believe that there is no given reality, that they can “be” what they wish, change it anytime they wish, and that they are fully intitled to be regarded and treated by society as the being they believe to “be” at the time. Furthermore, they force this indoctrination on children and encourage chemical or surgical mutilation at an age where nobody has the maturity and standing to take such irreversible and permanently damaging decisions. And they seem to hold the view that TQ individuals are somehow a higher class of humans with special rights and entitlements, especially the right to hold massive transformative influence over society, which is why they have such a drive to be politicians, journalists, actors, and especially to be around and educate small children. And to persecute and defame anyone who disagrees with them. It is plainly an extreme form of racism and totalitarianism, with an influence and extremism and aggression towards all else which reminds me of Zionism – a fringe minority of humanity determined to impose their views on the majority with force at any cost. These people are mentally ill, and their existence is a grave problem for any society, which, if not solved, will destroy it from within.
One consequence that is often overlooked in the debate is the fact that once you “transition” you permanently loose fertility. Past this point you cannot have biological offspring anymore. You cannot become mother or father anymore. Actually when we look at the WEF transhumanism agenda which has always included population reduction as a cornerstone, I believe this is a key motivation behind the WEF-influenced governments and NGOs almighty push for TQ indoctrination, complete with censorship and criminal charges against anyone who disagrees.
Posted by: Matthias | Mar 15 2024 10:27 utc | 371
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