If you’re like most people — and most people are! — you’re probably looking at the news, and the fantastic things you are asked to believe, with a deepening feeling that either everyone’s gone completely mad, or that you have.
If it’s any comfort, let me reassure that you haven’t gone insane, and neither has the world: all of this is by design. What you’re seeing all around you isn’t madness, it’s evil — and it’s been done before. The psychiatrist and author Anthony Daniels, who writes as “Theodore Dalrymple”, explained this some years ago:
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Front and center today is the domination of NCAA women’s swimming by a young man calling himself “Lia Thomas”. Thomas swam as a man during his first couple of years in collage, with mediocre results, but as a “woman”, he’s the best there is.
This is, of course, an obvious absurdity — after all, the obvious question to ask is “why do we have women’s sports in the first place?” — but, as Dalrymple notes above, the absurdity isn’t a bug, it’s the whole point. (Likewise the selection of men like Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner, and Richard “Rachel” Levine, for “Woman of the Year” awards, etc.) The performance gap between men and women is so great that, as we can see here, high-school boys easily and routinely outperform the world’s best female athletes.
So no, you aren’t going crazy. All of this is a tried-and-true method of social and political subjugation, and it’s as old as the hills. The good news is this: all we need to do to make it go away is for all of us to refuse to let them put any more lies in our mouths.
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Malcolm
Sometimes, the best thing a friend can do is to emphasize the obvious. You, Sir, are a friend to all who are willing to listen to your counsel.
I particularly like the AD quote. I hope more people can be awakened from their slumber
Jim Reibel
People who lived through communism tell me that a big difference between what they had then and what we have now is that here people actually believe what they’re told. And that seems right to me. There doesn’t seem to be an inner circle running things that recognizes the difference between prolefeed and what’s actually going on. It’s shocking and horrifying, but so far as I can tell it’s the case.
I’m constantly puzzling over this. Why has everyone gone bananas?
Some brief notes if of any interest:
1. Globalism, and industrial society in general, mean people have no personal knowledge of most things that affect them. They all happen on the other side of the world.
2. The internet etc. has disintegrated the world into a mass of images and soundbites that can be reassembled to look like anything. It’s a paradise for propagandists, who end up believing their own propaganda.
3. Electronics also means that everyone and every place in the world are equally present to each other. The result is that particular culture based on particular local and historical experience disintegrates. When that happens the everyday good sense of ordinary people degrades.
4. Weakening of background social connections like family, church, and informal local community mean people stand alone and have no way to resist what the authorities throw at them.
5. As a substitute for good sense we have a cult of expertise, where “truth” is based on a combination of institutional consensus and imitation of the natural sciences – emphasizing numerical data and specialized knowledge, and rejecting tradition, common sense, and informal pattern recognition as sources of knowledge.
6. Disconnection of “knowledge” from everyday experience means it lacks a reality check, and emphasizing the consensus of specialists means it increasingly reflects institutional biases.
The result is our current lunacy. Our extraordinary wealth and power has so far allowed us to endure it. That situation is coming to an end I think.
There’s more, of course, some of it not surprisingly more favorable to Malcolm’s view:
1. There are indeed humiliation rituals, like forcing bakers and photographers to participate in celebrating gay “weddings.”
2. There’s some sort of secret knowledge thing going on. Things are not as they appear to the uninitiated, the adepts know e.g. that “Lia,” in spite of all appearances, is really a woman. That knowledge makes them superior to the cattle satisfied with conventional thought and the evidence of their senses.
3. What’s odd though is that the “knowledge” doesn’t present itself as secret. It’s presented as clear-as-day public truth, the verdict of Science, and all must acknowledge it as such.
4. That might seem like just another humiliation ritual, but people really do believe it. It seems that we are now living in a Golden Age in which the confusions of the past have been utterly transcended and the secret knowledge of the adepts has become evident public reality.
James Reibel,
Thanks very much for those kind words.
Jim Kalb,
Nice to see you again! Thanks for these interesting comments. I will respond in a new post.
The reason the website “boys vs women” exists is because feminism has been in the reality-denying business since its foundation by Stalinists (Friedan & deBeauvoir) in the 1950s.