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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Quote 13 -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. – Unquote.
It can be & probably more easily with the aid of logic insomuch ‘left & ‘right’ never were reliable demarcations i found. Simply created post aristocracy cum government, well, thats if it can be trusted that those governments are not still the former ( apart from America ). The peril of abstraction you prefer to avoid nevertheless sails close since your ability to invoke it is so. You clutch that broadsword and she turns, but is never really far away. These globalists are masters of causation linked to fear ofc. Mainly since Power can do what it likes to humanity if it wishes, THUS their ‘magic parts’ are mighty powerful // their voodoo // their woo woo // their BS. You know how exaggerated i am that the general public to not see this level of fear mongering illustrated via people like Richard Dawkins. This speaks much for the state of the art in metaphysical persuasion these days i feel. For a WOO hunter to get away with being a WOO merchant ( both at once ) is surely a sign of doom really!
I sometimes wonder if realisation can be detected in Dawkins no longer certain gaze. Its likes he’s telling himself ” I rounded career off by shitting in humanities face & i’m not going to be around long enough to spend the consultancy fees. I see fear and uncertainty & even confusion in the man – not ‘Wisdom’. That IS the correct reaction since new atheism modern thought crime. A meta -physicalist posing as an evolutionist who just about managed to show he had a conscience just because that cocky expression has gone AWOL. He should give himself the same permission shit himself anyway. Approaching mortality without death or god denial is as valid as having them. Others didn’t cheat humanity in a mindless quest for sociological power like Dawkins however, and those are very fundamental matters for a ‘brain’ like his to lack.
Never trust anyone who has sycophants running behind talking about how big someones brain is. Power buys people to do it when the person in question is up to no good. Abuse of power has footprints such as these & the brokers beneath the upper crusts ( like New Atheism ) are easy to spot actually.
Quote by 13 – backwards to move forwards. Unquote.
I agree with your points including the piscine fishes encircling & the serpent in self absorption // sharing some of your doubts theres sufficient humanitarian force to alter the existing 1 over 99 social power laws. Really much of what we are seeing is to do with globalists corrupting natural law into typical divide & rule. Though these are far more of a hunter gatherer, whose driven mad, at the fingertips, by constant social engineer messaging, You are right that there is no backward/forward in this state as the goal IS an abstraction where the social world appears to ‘prove’ all is dynamic for all people. The fact is that theres an inertia except for those who are ‘worthy’ & thats a show of support for this machine. Then theres ‘The Clubs’ -with their secret society & ‘hidden worthiness’. This is the part the black people complain about to non elite whites who are nowhere near these dens of inequity. Same exists in far greater amounts within sub saharan African elites in any case. Thus among the lower rungs of central power divide :
Young working classes encouraged to become middle class & pour scorn on working ‘classness’
Racial groups manipulated to blame white people who’ve lived mainly in poverty
And what i’d describe as the ‘general cleaner // social bleach = WOKE. Which is a crude tool of social violence with finite concepts thats designed to creep into any cracks of the other edifices like a sludge. Proletariat forced into sociological Inertia is very much part of totalitarian design ofc. Phenomenon unfolding psychosocially has dynamics & emergent aspect as if is progress. Really there is only inertia / enervation. Many young working class people being held in a holding pattern & their heads filled with the globalists propaganda // fake aspirations never really knowing where they’re going. In fact Pressure is applied to these people via DEI // CRT just so that WOKE (in totem) feels like going somewhere.
Theres really nothing there but symbols & the social pressure used to make them feel real IF a normative sense of the place / dasien can be trusted for its perceptual information concerning our existence. With post truth it cannot where Gov’s have made it clear they want no factual based grid of reference in public parlances. I think the simple fact thats been missed about power, is that ‘the truth’ has been codified & commodified so its reification sells by the pound i.e its for sale. This is why social justice beats to the kind of tempo it does. The working class are being deemed non entitled to this commodity. was always the case to degrees yes. Its just that something has changed in order that it can now be on show, up on a pedestal as if a fine whole boiled ham in middle class delicatessens.
As such it almost speaks for itself like this that if THAT is the Nu Truth, then the post truth is whats left over once you’ve afforded it. In other words // once the whole sickness finds its sludge level the middle classes feel unable to support their own kind of working class while the narrative states r=that outsider working classes are part of the same Nu Truth revolution.
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.
Quote ”idiots bribed by status rewards. Very Queer. Unquote”
The ‘useful idiot’ ( UI’s ) phenomenon yes. Getting reification to viral/ seed / psychosocially boot up / sustain / is basically impossible when doing the right things by the people. Global entities with vast budget are doing it anyway since lack of regard for the consequences makes it very easy during a scorched earth level project. When it comes to those who influence UI’s with etymological fallacy, the Derrida deconstruction tools come to mind. And below another typical blunt tool approach to binaries thus rendering ‘fact’ as a free radical phenomenon thats not actually defined.
Metaphysics of presence
Main article: Metaphysics of presence
Derrida describes the task of deconstruction as the identification of metaphysics of presence, or logocentrism in western philosophy. Metaphysics of presence is the desire for immediate access to meaning, the privileging of presence over absence. This means that there is an assumed bias in certain binary oppositions where one side is placed in a position over another, such as good over bad, speech over the written word, male over female. Derrida writes,
So with his ‘metaphysics of presence’ Derrida crudely manifests metacognitive concerns into ordinary perception & weaponises. Really all he has done is make a cunning switch between how theoretical psychiatry would view idea about the Unconscious. Thus ? – is treating < those as if a Conscious concern, & one within emergency considerations to boot. Theres nothing 'wrong' with the theory / its theorising / its bone fide theorists. , its just that its only a psy op if you've turned the trick Derrida did with it. So having faked a binary slitting algorithm & knowing full well HOW he has done it will escape the attention of most. He turns his feeble mind & grubby paws to talking about 'what is missing theoretically & why that matters' etc etc. And we see now the above is used to create QUEERING every person on earth ( well your posts have states it all there ).
With Derrida's tricky axiom 'Difference' we are in a place which is potentially toxic in a corrupt world, harmless if not. Once its grown up into algorithmic praxis from hell, its a tool thats found a way to force para consistent concepts into every day life. The combination of finding a way around a state of natural inertia / or / peoples right to be free of deep philosophy in daily life. Instead Derrida drives his asymmetric tool home. People are not expected to actual be philosophers, just forced to listen to it and accept that ANY perceptual matters an endless continuum ( like gender ).
So opportunity creating that not there. Very like Nation A sending out diplomatics to Nation B offering help with natural resource extraction like OIL, when they'd have no chance otherwise. I.E problemisation / pseudo problems. One has to give Derrida credit for how much negative finesse 'Differance' has. Its a tool that seems right when it expects proletariat to lend their ear to be told they are ignorant. With these freshly brain dead UI's off it all goes down the 'all will be revealed later' rabbit hole.
Quote : A concept introduced by Derrida, differance is a pun on “difference” and “deferment”, and is that attribute of language, by which meaning is generated because of a word’s difference from other words in a signifying system, and at the same time, meaning is inevitably and infinitely deferred or postponed, is constantly under erasure and can be glimpsed only through “aporias” or deadlocks in understanding. Unquote.
Derrida also gets away with this given none of it is actual 'false', its what you shall do with next that can be.
In conclusion ( regardless Derrida think there are non ) – the dilemmas he creates are good metaphysics in sealed off environments where there are No People // no intention to unleash them in a psychosocial manner. However Derrida and his followers did feel people should be forced their society being altered because of it. Therefore any argument by a contemporary needs to clarify for what purpose the daily use of paraconsistent logic is. < From that position the totalitarian dictate WHAT THEY SAY IT IS.
'Differance' is thus QUEER apartheid – Freire / Marcuse are nowhere in sight. But there there are numerous completely different tools, designed by various people, doing more of less the same thing with Hegalism.
** Sorry where spell check has stepped in it ( ofc ) is meant to be ‘Differance’ not difference.
Well mostly. If it does it again the 7th letter is meant to be an A giving ‘Rance’.
”Intellectuals are people who’s end product are ideas.” Tom Sowell. When they propagate dangerous ones they pay no price.
Tom Sowell Unquote
With bent intellectuals & who funds them, its a bit like designing a car for a mainstream manufacturer. I.E the intellectual property actually belongs to the funder insomuch it is they who will decide the precise nature and purpose of the work. There can be a book linked which seems a perfectly self generated standalone work & not be. For instance the book ‘White Fragility’ seems ( only IMHO ) to have been written by a high end source and not the claimed author. Luce Irigaray seems to have no clue what is in her later books and prefers getting pissed. I also suspect Butler sold her ‘name’ and that her material comes from a social engineering lab. In short the people behind totalitarianism are hiding behind name authors. The i feel theres a variance on how much or how little the establishment need to pre script. Di Angelo for example offers a grubby tale of not even entering higher education until 30, she being a battered wife in a trailer park. She ( well ‘says’ ) – embarks on learning & hey presto top professor in no time & AMERICA is not visiting her with M.I.Bs asking her why she is pontificating @ america that all whats are racists. Obvious set up, probably in her case a clueless person who needed to be given the entire plot. Others like Richard Dawkins are much more capable of sht stirring from his own self generated nut of new atheism. Thus though New Atheism has posed as a social justice movement against religion, some of thier gems include the transformation of anti religion into Thought Crime. This model was later cloned to produce Silence Crime. ‘Silence Crime’ = choosing not to repeat someones ridiculous pronoun i.e just be Silent = & being arrested / sacked.
And many were sacked in schools for just ignoring silly pronouns. The point is a lab found a way to create a crime around doing absolutely Nothing! But the idea had the backing of a lot of followers simply because the IDEA could exist invisibly within the idea that to be religious was wrong .
So the trouble is that the core IDEA thats going to cause the inhumanity is usually not detectable unless a person is intellectual enough to see it. All the wars got people approval. ‘War’ is possible as not enough people know what things mean is equally a truism to the indubitably trueist example you gave Ward
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.
haha – well look no further than Grayling / Dawkins / Newv Atheism & Humanism.
Effective Altruism is virtually their central tenet, although it is perhaps Stock who delineated & coined the term itself. Surely its part of the sort of class war the globalists are trying to create. ‘Class war’ never being too difficult, though this one heavily customised & overarching. They are trying to insert a ‘Derrida Differance ‘aspect so that young working class people put down other working classes for the great I’M MIDDLE CLASS DREAM. They never will be in the majority ofc, but thats besides the point, as these people are the weapon, and the tool is WOKE.
This is why i’ve so often dismissed the like of Freire et al – there far more significant & precisely culpable figures. ‘Differance’ for example is a very minute tool by psychosocial standards & about the easiest to conceal. When looked at closely its a mechanism that teaches people to ignore immediate fact in front of them because ” no information is ever complete ” ( etc ) . It is then far easier to have them proceed to act as they are instructed ( WOKE brainwash etc ).
Useful Idiot science is one of targeting demographics/ groups for WOKE processing with the lowest intelligence you dare select. WOKE then becomes their surrogate fight or flight system as ‘Differance’ is a kind of peripheral vision bypass, as well as anti present fact tool.. Not claiming uniquely – there many other convolutional loops psy-ops that do this. If we lump the altogether as one calling the ( Say ) ‘Metacognitive Misconceptions’ ( arguments sake ) -They are very like artificial asperger syndromes. And since its so relevant i’ll add that many feel aspergers is a construct such as this anyway ! – no wish to offend those who feel not. But the point is artificially implemented psychosocial phenomena is largely – well – ‘at large’.
Your post about POWER was stunning btw.
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.