...."resentful Raskolnikovs" is perfect......and the affluent, little nitwit campus girlies don't seem to fully realize that, had they simply been at the October 7 concert in Israel, their naked, raped bodies would have been bouncing over dusty roads in the back of a pickup truck with a jubilant Hamas crowd screaming to Allah....
Brad tells us how this inane idiocy makes him feel by sheer sentence length alone! Had to catch my breath and muster more wits to read a six line long sentence!
Yes, his highly erudite evocative writing is able to find and use just the right word or series of words in a semi poetic manner, resurrecting a sophisticated use of language. Although I did have to look up "peripatetic hikikomori".
"most of these morons are your standard “social justice” evangelists who operate like morally neutered herd animals trained to shout slogans fed to them by their generational commissars. Comfortable, affluent, cosseted. Naive and emotional. These mindless marionettes indulge in mediagenic morality plays featuring a vibes-based facsimile of radical activism driven by a toxic twist of myopia and infantile solipsism because of the status opportunities that the movement affords during a time when having contempt for Israel and compassion for the “marginalized” is an entirely requisite credo for access to the cultural establishment in the 21st century."
My age is in between the Baby Boomers and Millennials... I think someone called us the Jones.
My aunts were protesting, drug-using hippies... and I disliked their behavior and much of their music. It is crazy how I only started appreciating Led Zeppelin a few years ago. The youngest aunt I remember HATING Nixon, and swooning over JKF... and being devastated when he was assassinated. She and her next older sister would attend campus protests even though they were both high school drop-outs. They would talk about how exhilarating it was... with all that youth energy... which included some violence against "the pigs" etc.
My perspective today is that the kids are not much different than where my aunts. The evolutionary DNA of youth is to separate from the adults. The adults make is hard, and so the kids go to extremes to force the break. Frankly, I think the kids rebel against parts of the system that remind them of their mother and father... because in their prehistoric brains they understand that being independent adults improves survival rates.
I think there are at least four systemic differences between then and now that have put standard youth rebellion into the societal danger zone.
1. Over mothering. Changes in the economy plus females doing the feminist war dance through their campus experience and beyond, have created fewer kids... more single child households... more single parent households without the father... more mommy breadwinner dominating the head of house... all of which has led to over-mothering of the population. This means we have many more under-develop adults failing to get the tough love of a father.
2. 3rd Wave Feminism. Rush called them "feminazis" and it is apt. They are collectivist totalitarians with a post-modernist worldview of rage against men probably because their reliance on battery-powered fake penises to get off. These are not your old style feminists that agitated for more female choice... these are born-again Maoists that want everyone else beaten into submission so they can strut around in Karen power bliss.
3. Broken Politicized Fear-Porn Media. The Democrat-ization of the media could not have happen at a worse time. Before we have relied on the media to calm down the most easily influenced to fear. The news was the news and Tom Brokaw was like our societal therapist to for a nightly nerve calming session. Today the media is 180 degrees the opposite... inflaming and gaslighting everyone to an extreme emotional state. We used to turn on the news and read the newspaper to get informed and calm down. Now we need to turn it off and put it down to get calm.
4. Obama Deep State Soft Power Turned on Us. There used to be a firewall. The methods of our Deep State Department and spooks to foment social instability into other countries to influence their elections was turned internally in the last term of Obama. The deep state colluded with media to basically cause political chaos. This added rocket fuel to the already existing wildfire problem of media transformation into pods of like-minded subscribers. The deep state dark money has also flowed to academia where more emotional turmoil can be pushed into the soft muffin brains of students to call them to arms.
The good news is that Trump and DOGE are taking a big bite out of #4.
There has also been some progress on correcting #3 with independent media, DOGE cutting off a lot of media funding through the NGOs. However, the constant dwindling of media subscribers is likely to continue to make the mainstream media shill for bubble safe-space subscribers and feed them emotive stew. #2 is more difficult, but there is some hope that Musk started... teaching corporate America to rid themselves of the toxic woke workforce. The feminists and their lackey depressed and angry boss girls are going to become more depressed not finding work. Many will get the cognitive behavior therapy they deserve. And the academic indoctrination factory the feminists enjoy is going to be running into funding problems because of Trump and DOGE.
#1 is probably a long-shot to fix. It is true that hard times create strong men that create good times. And good times create weak men that create hard times. We might be able to stop the decline to hard times, but we are going to be stuck with a generation of two of weak men (including those that dress like women).
In the city where I live, Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in Canada, someone just recently vandalized and damaged Tesla charging stations. A former Conservative candidate for the last provincial election had her car torched.
There was political violence in the 1960s until the 1980s: Aryan Brotherhood, and Weather Underground in the USA. FLQ and Squamish Five in Canada. But I remember the media, NGOs, and political parties often condemning this violence. While I am Pro Palestinian I stay away from the protests cause I think there are too many people participating I do not want to be around. It seems like political violence and othering are being normalized cause everyone is a 21st century fascist.
this: This is why I subscribe
...."resentful Raskolnikovs" is perfect......and the affluent, little nitwit campus girlies don't seem to fully realize that, had they simply been at the October 7 concert in Israel, their naked, raped bodies would have been bouncing over dusty roads in the back of a pickup truck with a jubilant Hamas crowd screaming to Allah....
Brad tells us how this inane idiocy makes him feel by sheer sentence length alone! Had to catch my breath and muster more wits to read a six line long sentence!
Yes, his highly erudite evocative writing is able to find and use just the right word or series of words in a semi poetic manner, resurrecting a sophisticated use of language. Although I did have to look up "peripatetic hikikomori".
"...but who seem intent on driving people insane by convincing them that extreme steps must be taken to halt an imagined doom?"
See also: covid, climate, etc
It’s a death cult, offering support to fellow death cults. The “protestors” may be naive, but the organizers are not.
"most of these morons are your standard “social justice” evangelists who operate like morally neutered herd animals trained to shout slogans fed to them by their generational commissars. Comfortable, affluent, cosseted. Naive and emotional. These mindless marionettes indulge in mediagenic morality plays featuring a vibes-based facsimile of radical activism driven by a toxic twist of myopia and infantile solipsism because of the status opportunities that the movement affords during a time when having contempt for Israel and compassion for the “marginalized” is an entirely requisite credo for access to the cultural establishment in the 21st century."
This is poetry.
My age is in between the Baby Boomers and Millennials... I think someone called us the Jones.
My aunts were protesting, drug-using hippies... and I disliked their behavior and much of their music. It is crazy how I only started appreciating Led Zeppelin a few years ago. The youngest aunt I remember HATING Nixon, and swooning over JKF... and being devastated when he was assassinated. She and her next older sister would attend campus protests even though they were both high school drop-outs. They would talk about how exhilarating it was... with all that youth energy... which included some violence against "the pigs" etc.
My perspective today is that the kids are not much different than where my aunts. The evolutionary DNA of youth is to separate from the adults. The adults make is hard, and so the kids go to extremes to force the break. Frankly, I think the kids rebel against parts of the system that remind them of their mother and father... because in their prehistoric brains they understand that being independent adults improves survival rates.
I think there are at least four systemic differences between then and now that have put standard youth rebellion into the societal danger zone.
1. Over mothering. Changes in the economy plus females doing the feminist war dance through their campus experience and beyond, have created fewer kids... more single child households... more single parent households without the father... more mommy breadwinner dominating the head of house... all of which has led to over-mothering of the population. This means we have many more under-develop adults failing to get the tough love of a father.
2. 3rd Wave Feminism. Rush called them "feminazis" and it is apt. They are collectivist totalitarians with a post-modernist worldview of rage against men probably because their reliance on battery-powered fake penises to get off. These are not your old style feminists that agitated for more female choice... these are born-again Maoists that want everyone else beaten into submission so they can strut around in Karen power bliss.
3. Broken Politicized Fear-Porn Media. The Democrat-ization of the media could not have happen at a worse time. Before we have relied on the media to calm down the most easily influenced to fear. The news was the news and Tom Brokaw was like our societal therapist to for a nightly nerve calming session. Today the media is 180 degrees the opposite... inflaming and gaslighting everyone to an extreme emotional state. We used to turn on the news and read the newspaper to get informed and calm down. Now we need to turn it off and put it down to get calm.
4. Obama Deep State Soft Power Turned on Us. There used to be a firewall. The methods of our Deep State Department and spooks to foment social instability into other countries to influence their elections was turned internally in the last term of Obama. The deep state colluded with media to basically cause political chaos. This added rocket fuel to the already existing wildfire problem of media transformation into pods of like-minded subscribers. The deep state dark money has also flowed to academia where more emotional turmoil can be pushed into the soft muffin brains of students to call them to arms.
The good news is that Trump and DOGE are taking a big bite out of #4.
There has also been some progress on correcting #3 with independent media, DOGE cutting off a lot of media funding through the NGOs. However, the constant dwindling of media subscribers is likely to continue to make the mainstream media shill for bubble safe-space subscribers and feed them emotive stew. #2 is more difficult, but there is some hope that Musk started... teaching corporate America to rid themselves of the toxic woke workforce. The feminists and their lackey depressed and angry boss girls are going to become more depressed not finding work. Many will get the cognitive behavior therapy they deserve. And the academic indoctrination factory the feminists enjoy is going to be running into funding problems because of Trump and DOGE.
#1 is probably a long-shot to fix. It is true that hard times create strong men that create good times. And good times create weak men that create hard times. We might be able to stop the decline to hard times, but we are going to be stuck with a generation of two of weak men (including those that dress like women).
Masterpiece. You done good.
Radical, violent chic has always been a leftist MO.
In the city where I live, Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in Canada, someone just recently vandalized and damaged Tesla charging stations. A former Conservative candidate for the last provincial election had her car torched.
There was political violence in the 1960s until the 1980s: Aryan Brotherhood, and Weather Underground in the USA. FLQ and Squamish Five in Canada. But I remember the media, NGOs, and political parties often condemning this violence. While I am Pro Palestinian I stay away from the protests cause I think there are too many people participating I do not want to be around. It seems like political violence and othering are being normalized cause everyone is a 21st century fascist.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
"For I am a sinner in the hands of an angry God. Oh Bloody Mary full of Vodka, blessed are you among cocktails."