New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 94
Queer Theory is one of the most destructive ideas ever to have been loosed onto our society from the halls of academia, as we have documented in the recent book The Queering of the American Child. But do you know the definition of “queer”? Do you know that it’s not possible to be queer, only to act queer? Do you know it has almost nothing to do with gay people? Do you know it’s virtually guaranteed by definition to encourage pedophilia? All this and more is available in the original definition of “queer” as it is used in Queer Theory. Join host James Lindsay in this episode of New Discourses Bullets, where he reads and explains the original definition of “queer” from David Halperin’s 1995 book Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography.
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Queer is not an academic abstraction, a personal opinion or a “right wing conspiracy theory”. Queer is a mechanism of population control that reifies 2+2=5. Queer is Woke Sharia Law that manifests an authoritarian credo: Compel them to speak absurdities so you can entice them to commit atrocities.
“Canadian Cancer Society Sorry For Using ‘Cervix’ Instead Of ‘Front Hole’ For LGBTQ+ Community” Toronto Sun, Jun 6 2024
“The Canadian Cancer Society is apologizing for using the term ‘cervix’ on a web page for transgender and non-binary people assigned female at birth. On the page dedicated to cervical cancer screenings for members of the LGBTQ+ community, the charitable organization explains in a disclaimer they ‘recognize that many trans men and non-binary people may have mixed feelings about or feel distanced from words like “cervix”.’
The charity acknowledged in a section titled ‘Words Matter’ that some members of the community may prefer to use other terms such as ‘front hole.’ ‘We recognize the limitations of the words we’ve used while also acknowledging the need for simplicity,’ the Canadian Cancer Society wrote. ‘Another reason we use words like “cervix” is to normalize the reality that men can have these body parts too.’”
“Normalize the reality” = Queering. Reason = Treason. The right side of history is now the left side of hysteria. This is what Queer is for. This is what smug modern “progressive” people want so this is what smug modern “progressive” people get: Queer as a rationalization for pretending that actively propping up a new totalitarianism because it is not “right wing” makes them “good” people. Useful idiots bribed by status rewards. Very Queer.
Its anti racist garbage aimed a white people and civil society in general. They don’t gear this to racial groups except the white population. Children are targeted because they are the first in line for behavior modification. The activists and high up progressives stain our language to keep control over dissidents. Just to see that the language is important to them should tell us something. That the the party leaders can watch the country go to crap should tell us what shallow and low quality minds they have.
”Intellectuals are people who’s end product are ideas.” Tom Sowell. When they propagate dangerous ones they pay no price.
I’ve just been rewatching Costa-Gavras’ main films from the 1970s. I haven’t watched them in decades because even at the time I found these films were so encrusted with leftist public sanctimony and “revolutionary” exegesis that the films’ manipulation by liberal and radical reviewers as anti-Western “anti-capitalist” propaganda obliterated the actual movies’ impact for me.
I just watched “Z”, “State of Siege”, “The Confession” (and “Missing” which is, though big budget mainstream, actually more graphic about the films’ common theme that the other three). The films are about 1960s/70s American CIA direct support for Latin American (and other) far right military dictatorships, with “The Confession” being about the opposite side, Soviet KGB direct support for Eastern European (and other) communist military dictatorships and their use of torture, death squads, citizen terrorizing, etc. to maintain absolute control over entire countries or regions for the financial/power benefits of elites manipulating behind the scenes.
I also by coincidence (or fate?) happened to re-find digital copies that I thought long lost of all of my old magazine columns that I wrote 30 years ago in a national gay “radical” publication during my three year paid tenure as biweekly editorial columnist parsing the authoritarian anti-gay and anti-“liberal” media and related events. I had thrown out the paper copies of my 80 columns when Woke and Queer took over out of disgust with my own perceived culpability in this monstrousness. But re-reading them now I noted two things: a) I laughed out loud at how scathingly hilarious I was; and b) they exemplified that I was a prototype of my times: an anti-right wing but not pro-left wing (sympathetic but sceptical) critic of all power, if that can be understood.
If younger people want to understand why the Left’s long march was so successful, it’s not merely because it was based on theorists (like Marx, Marcuse, etc.), but because it was rooted in real world actual happenings that were as morally vile as any war or hard totalitarianism. It is critical to understand all the theoretical and polemical influences on the current historical moment but something is lost by focusing solely on this one variable – the actual political happenings that effected millions of actual lives. Re-watching these “radical” films and re-reading my old “radical” columns from 30 and 40 years ago rekindled for me the original reasons why I was the person I was back then and absolved for me personally my own long self-recrimination for the small part I thought I played in bringing about the horror that became Woke.
Why this is significant now is related to your comment. Instead of the universal theme of layers of hidden power entanglements hidden or disguised via even more layers of propaganda, psy ops and spin being universally BAD, the public discourse around Costa-Gavras’ movies then and around anti-Wokeness now itself became part of the propaganda psy ops spin justifying itself because it was for the “other side”.
This spin deconstructed (in today’s parlance, “Queered”) any authenticity of universality thus any possibility of common understanding of shared human nature (and intrinsic human evil) that is essential to comprehending the Big Picture of these horrific and complex world affairs. This was the point then and it’s the point now: There are no “sides”. There is only Power. And it uses everything and anything especially its knowledge of human nature to maintain itself.
I think at this juncture in the anti-Woke “journey”, we need to flip the frame wider. Give thanks to those who did the enormous and important work of micro parsing the theoretical breadcrumbs that helped people see that there is a baker’s hand at work in all this mess and not random chaos (which itself is merely another power tool). It’s time to move beyond analysing Theory and move towards examining Power. We need a new Costa-Gavras for our times who can document the power players of our present situation the way he captured those of the 1970s.
Check out “The God Delusion Of Secular Liberals”, an article by Kathleen Stock (June 7, 2024 unherd.com) that examines a book by “political philosopher Alexandre Lefebvre” (whoever he or “she” is) called “Liberalism As A Way Of Life” that presents something named “Effective Altruism”, apparently a new liberal atheist “religion” that sounds like the ultimate disturbing sanctimonious elitist freakshow.
“Effective Altruism” appears to be a literal form of pathological egomania with toxic narcissism and delusions of self-grandeur adopted by spoiled rich people with way too much time on their hands as their “religion”. A year or two on a chain gang or even better being pressed into service as galley slaves would soon cure these PWs (poseur-wankers) of their loathsome and cringe-making self-worship.
Just hearing the term “Effective Altruism” makes me want to reach for some Ayn Rand to scrub my mind clean of the stench of such embarrassing vanity-cult offal. What mad scientist lab is hatching these insane and irritating “people” (like the “Effective Altruism” couple described in the article) and how can this lab be located so it can be nuked to rubble once and for all.
Thank you for your compliment. Yes, everything always comes back to Power.
“artificial asperger syndromes”
I feel that we are living in an Artificial Asperger Syndrome society. It’s like something that cannot be (and refuses to be) defined; something that’s fear-worshipped and believed/not believed like some phantom hydrocephalic gaff from a 1930s carnival freak show; something that comes into your home every time you go out and completely rearranges everything: furniture, clothing, kitchen, but which you never see or even know who or what it is that’s so incessantly invading and upending your most intimate “private” home, life and mind.
My personal and political tectonic plates are having a major upheaval at the moment, fuelled by the magma of exasperation with floundering responses to current societal catastrophes. I feel that the anti-Woke “movement” that once offered one of the few hopes (and sanity sanctuaries) is beginning to eat its own tail. We are having an Ouroborosian Moment. Ideological dead ends lead to polemical pile ups and inevitable political backtracking. Hard Questions are abandoned in a frantic panic for Easy Answers (Inc.), especially comforting old ones that have proven themselves WRONG. We cannot go backwards to move forwards. It’s like leaving a toxic relationship only to get into another bad one and then “solving” this problem by returning to the previous, more “familiar” abusive partner in the hope that maybe that will make things “better”. It’s like hitting yourself in the head with a brick to try to get rid of a headache.
There are deeper reasons why the mess of the world is not merely happening but why it is happening AGAIN with the same patterns repeating over and over. To understand why, we need to dive deeper. Much deeper. Into Dante’s Inferno territory. Into Freudian Id territory. Into Erasmus’ Folly territory. Into the depths of human nature. Will we? Of course not. The SOMA is just too f-ing good, dood. So shut up and get offa my cloud. I’m all right, Jack. As the Dutch mayor said to his constituents after an appalling Islamic atrocity in his city: “Did the wine you drank with dinner last night taste any less sweet? No? Then what are you worried about?” The ultimate Artificial Asperger Syndrome Society moment. And the beat goes on…
Having looked around me in the world of my youth, in progressive middle-class Boomer-land, I noted that all the predators needed do in order to take over minds was to appeal to the vanity of their prey. Convince them they would be “progressive” if they did such-and-such.
Worked like a charm.
We can see this playing out in the current elections. Go after the red man on a complete witch hunt and what the f will you gain??? You can pick up a make believe thought and turn it into a cause and keep the Queer pill spreading. And these people will pay the price as reality will kick them hard in the ass. The kitting group even tosses this crap into their outlook as a new point to talk of as if it were important. Yes there no meaning beyond the text in reality it has no juice of the life force except in the outer stretch of what goes on. BE NOT taken in by bullshit rhetoric spoken by liars who hide and play in the shadows. They will beat you down and steal your crown.