New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 17
Woke Marxists talk endlessly about the need to “destigmatize” this, “normalize” that, “affirm” this other thing, and “celebrate” whatever they say is best. They want you to think that these things are all the same, though, and any one who doesn’t take the slider all the way from “destigmatize” to “celebrate” on any of their causes célèbre is somehow a conservative (or a bigot or a “Nazi”). In fact, these gradations are necessary to a healthy society, and their boundaries must be understood and maintained. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks down the relevant categories and gives concrete examples of things that belong and do not belong in each. His goal is to add clarity to all discussions made muddy, murky, and ultimately dangerous by Woke Marxist activism that benefits from blurring the lines and making those slopes slippery.
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Being a homosexual is not normal but has been “normalized” due to a vote of psychiatrists in New York about 1971 or so. It is now “accepted” for monetary reasons however most males still find the real ‘creep’ factor but are now told to ignore or accept it. Do not. Simply accept the fact that homosexuals are ‘out’.
If you want to further refine this scale and add more gradient points, “uplift” and “center” (used here as a verb, like “to center black womex”) are two other weasel terms often used by the wokist evangelists and preachers.
The beginnings of government interference and control over education in the United States began with the influence of Horace Mann, who aggressively advocated and pressed for the establishment of government (public) schools that were to be funded by force, i.e, tax-theft–legalized theft, but theft nonetheless. He advocated the Prussian method of “education”, with its militaristic corporal punishments, rote memorization over understanding, and demands of unquestioning obedience to “authority figures” for the purpose of producing soldiers and factory workers who would immediately and mindlessly do as they are told.
Normailzation is an example of a word and concept that only gained meaning and usefullness fairly recently. Though a perfectly legitimate form based on the word “normal,” “normalize” did not come into wide use until the 1940s, and “normailzation” actually peaked in 1980.
I am familiar with this word from the technology of database design, and it also has statistics meanings. So here is an example of a technical word being appropriated by the social sciences for reasons that might be dubious. There are many such words.
The question of “what is normal?” borders on the profound, and is constantly on the mind of people like my current girlfriend. She wants to equate “normal” with acceptable or proper. I have never really had such a propensity.
In looking at the problem of Wokeism, we have to consider the aspects of it that are based on human history and experience and those aspects that are basically criminal. Wokeism harps on the fact that indigenous peoples were demonized during the era of colonization in order to justify killing them and taking their land. Indigenous heritage, they argue, should now be normalized, even celebrated, to compensate for that era of genocide. They then extend this line of thinking to argue that ANYTHING formerly thought of as “queer” should at least be normalized, if not celebrated. That might even include things traditionally considered to be criminal acts. Who’s to say what is criminal and what isn’t? In the absence of any agreed-upon method of determining this, they have leaned in the direction of total normalization of ALL human behaviors and identites. Thus we find them “crazy” and nihilistic. And many of them are.
What plays into this whole controversy, though, are the various real experiences of the demonized minorities in all their different forms. And I see that as a legitimate concern. No one wants to be hunted down and killed simply because they have some attribute that is considered abnormal, unacceptable, or bad. Should this include criminals? Of course most of us would agree, “no.” Yet it remains a fact that we have not solved criminality on this planet, and have no way to handle people who are addicted to it, much less people who fell into it by mistake. Trying them and sending them to jail obviously doesn’t work, except perhaps in a small number of cases.
And a critique of Wokism, though a valid warning to us all, does not solve the problems that the Woke want to solve, nor any, really, that anyone else wanted to solve. So while we continue to establish that Wokeness is not the answer, we need to find some answers, and soon, or populations may adopt Wokeness out of desperation, as they have adopted so many other terrible ideas in the past.
Homosexuals claim that homosexuality is nature, not chosen. Then they have parades to celebrate it, as if it’s an accomplishment. It can only be one or the other, not both.
What homosexuals celebrate is not their sexual orientation per se, but the fact that they are no longer closeted, persecuted, and treated as pariahs in society, and the liberation from those injustices is a legitimate cause for celebration. It is analogous to the celebrations that people of historically persecuted races and ethnicities (e.g Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, Chinese, Jews, Poles, Irish) engage in.
Really? I don’t think that’s what they’re celebrating. Have you even seen one of these parades? It’s about PRIDE, and showing off how superior they are compared to the rest of us.
pride (noun)
1: the quality or state of being proud: such as
a: inordinate self-esteem : CONCEIT
b: a reasonable or justifiable self-respect
c: delight or elation arising from some act, possession, or relationship
parental pride
2: proud or disdainful behavior or treatment : DISDAIN
3: ostentatious display
Of course it’s about pride!! Pride is a celebration of accomplishment, of having overcome adversity, as many, many gays and the people to whom I referred in my comment have done. I aver that those who believe that pride displayed as a celebration of defeating adversity is “really” an expression of conceit toward, disdain of, and superiority over other people have self-esteem problems: adversities that would benefit them to overcome. Perhaps you despise pride because of religious indoctrination to which you were subjected as a child about the “7 Cardinal Sins”: greed; pride; envy; anger; gluttonly; lust; and sloth. Greed, envy, laziness and excessive eating (sloth and gluttony) have negative social, psychological, and existential consequences for those who engage in them; but pride and factually justifiable anger are positive, healthy emotions.
Most sociological bad feeling is caused by secret societies. All of which have every type of people operating in them running a parallel society that takes much more out quite simply. These entitle themselves to much more & hand it around liberally within that hidden society. They’ve lately put out a massive range of sociological glues that a designed so that people outside of these ‘special clubs’ blame each other for all this via a method of transcription. For example funds taken by board members from large special needs college ( et alkl – what charity is straight and freeemasinless these days ? – like almost NONE ??? ) but thus this becomes and gets remodelled as ‘White Privilege’ – where theres an admittal of something, vut not the correct thing & the way its been done creates a sociological attack upon those it has nothing to do with.
Which sounds a really mad thing to do except it gets the job done = obvious corruption going on a charity board level deflected & ‘the people’ put off by a totalitarian lash out at them aligning what is clearly due suspicion with a way to get all the people blamed for what a few elite people are doing.
And this also retightens the lid on what they are doing.
Thus when someone just wants to have a healthy exchange stating they are XC sexuality and proud of Y – we are not really having this ‘Pure’ conversation, its a mongrel between what people wish to state & buckets of sociologically biased cover up psyche. Therefore is only an apocryphal style claim to ‘Pride’ & Apocrypha is a sociological science not in parlance ( as a strong clue to the state of the counter woke art ) = this aspect, though very relevant and powerful is still unknown to counter woke. Or not – is probably avoided as corruption is the best protected mechanism on earth. Which really leads us to reality = I.E the best protected mechanism on earth is what is causing all the disagreement. What does that = ? Well almost the point of convincing oneself is a cosmological problem beyond human science. For some its easier thus to join the denial bandwagon ( on secret society corruption ) – just so a paranoid confrontation is avoided. We then ignore the bombardment of signs that indicate things are wrong. Like the laws that make sure theres no legal obligation to spend money donated to charity on that charity – you can expend it as you like almost. The common way is to make it all disappear in expenses. A lot of charities appoint an MBE to the board, this is a particular habit at lucratively donated to special schools. That money is going to somewhat thanks to MBE. but ain’t special needs students !!!
No – what we are really trying to evaluate is how much to hate each other ( or not ) whilst grappling with the weight of each our own specific tribally based sociological molestations ( thats grip us ) out of the many that might. That way we can cope with knowing the elite are constantly fiddling the system ( = Inequality ) but we cannot stop them. Increasingly we move further from any philosophy on this out of fear it’ll be counter argued as religious & the art of debate dies.
Again this is a social engineering block pushing back on the peoples desire to call out such obvious corruption. I mean there is no doubt we have substantial amounts of group to group empathy missing now, its just that the solutions will hardly be what social engineers suggest. When climbing Everest its completely normal to walk past a person whose dying. They argue its just par for the course & continue walking by to summit. True in many ways as others climbers can die in helping the weak, Thats not the point – we deem it not important enough to put structure where we know it is required. This everest example is extreme, but missing links exist in all our societies because they’ll make ‘too much sense” = a lot of things that make sense endanger things that don’t like Corruption . Thus so called civilised societies have lots of things missing quite deliberately as should they exist, they’ll fly ‘too close to the wind’ – i.e avail ways be too revealing somewhere.
‘Pride’ then is something that should be obtainable in a pristine form but never is. Persons can consider hubris as pride. Mainly ‘Pride’ just isn’t there cosmologically, sociologically, phenomenologically because human awareness is too owned by the now many differing strains of groupthink cognitive dissonance. Even in these respects things were vastly less complex as recently as 10 years ago. Now the convolutions and mutations going on in the way many form a view of what it is to be personally responsibility & ‘pragmatic’ is mind boggling. Although the most staggering mass social innovation is the use of ‘Groupthink’ in order to makes ones personal brew of serf servitude.
This is a very clever socially engineered mechanism. It provides what its hosts feel is a democratised transport mechanism concerning their sense of / perception of where they are going in life & pairs this with what is an alien binary – I.E a conditioned learning complex built of personal uniqueness. Here – the personal uniqueness can never be obtained as thats impossible from a Groupthink. However its the Grouthink thats the carrier for the conditioned learning that state otherwise. A Woke needs a lower threshold of I.Q to be gripped like this as the person of even just average intelligence will not fall into this abyss. However the bonds are tight and strong with the Woke mind, who will search and search amongst the common as muckness looking for clues to ‘Uniqueness’.
The ofc the resultant frustration is so cognitively deafening to Woke or any with these engineered chips on shoulder over sex et all – that people are ready to be manipulated & deployed /implemented by the social engineers micro suggestions in the Groupthink.
Hilariously and lamentably in various configurations because its always ‘The People’ being manipulated to attack each other and bring allow a reduction in the quality of life which ordinary people experience. Therefore everything is meaningless unless we understand how elite QOL is being increased & working class reduced <<< which is only an annoying long known, long protested, long understood fact. = ?
Well its obvious – they have to use a means to help us forget what we know, so they target our cognitively ability to feel very concerned about the key reasons we should be concerned!!!!
That why LBGTAI Q ETALETCETCETC WITH BELLS ON are obsessed with Pride in the a pointless way. Do all of you deserve an authentic pride thats really beautiful powerful and invigorating – Yes /!!
That stupid sht that is processed by strangely well rewarded leader clases in the queers communities isn't though is it ? Funny that – strangely appointed leaderships and crummy sociological experiences that never cease to be sht and in conflict with the whole fucking world – FUNNY THAT. Because the fact is that EVERY community is being fucked over like that
The best social engineering labs in the world can manipulate and control people so much through just one concept such as being 'Unique' – it is frightening. Put the many leverage points in a long architecture & most people doing not really have a clue what they are doing or talking about before the age of 50 these days.
THAT is what the war against the people wants and does. For us to talk sht and attack each other constantly. An art of micro/passive aggression in a climate that claims to be clamping down hard on passive aggression. In other words – just to accept that group concepts such as micro/passive aggression can be controlled by law is a sickness. Just add on all these other attachments similar to this ….
But then again each one is very potent alone. This micro aggression doctrine that just been rolled out is an entirely unenforceable and non empirical control mechanism in a Democracy. Thats why a Totalitarian Modelnus in place.
Meaning ? – we are trying to destroy each other by talking about each other in the way that is against each other in the fashion its designers wish us to.
None of us have anything to be proud of whilst an entity of humans who wants the land we inhabit is this entrenched in destroying its culture in the quest to own it.
Own it PERSONALLY. These people want to own USA Europe PERSONALLY / PRIVATELY not govern them.
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“…people who escaped Communism kept telling me that one of the characteristics of the totalitarian regimes they escaped was the State inserting itself between children and their parents. This is well known to historians, as a matter of fact. The theory was that the State is the true parent, and as such, needs to defend the rights of children against their parents, who are carriers of old, oppressive values. This was necessary to liberate children from the past, and from its evil values.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trans-totalitarianism-time-for-moral-panic/