Insanity is being normalized
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What if you destroy the norms and definitions that give shape to our lives and our basic understanding of the world?
There is a term used to describe how, essentially, we navigate the world day to day. We use heuristics, which is a fancy Greek term for how we parse out the world in an essentially common-sense fashion. Rules of thumb, estimates based upon experience, guesstimates, satisficing. Finding solutions that, while not exactly precise, work well enough to navigate the world successfully.
In reality, outside specific tasks that require precision, this is how we HAVE to navigate the world because there is just no way to pin everything down to the hundredth decimal on every single thing, and we haven’t the actual capacity to do so in every case because the world is far too chaotic to do so. The variables are infinite and their interactions chaotic, which makes the counsel of waiting until everything is known the equivalent of suicidal paralysis.
Imagine waiting for all the possible information about the food on your plate and waiting to eat until it is all processed and discovered. You would simply starve to death and die. So you eat, based upon the experience that broccoli and prime rib will sustain you. A nice glass of wine (which one day is , one day isn’t , and a third day is supposed to be good for you) is a nice touch as well. We just act because we must, based on common sense.
You work with what you have and what you know and make the best decisions possible. It’s how we must navigate the world.
So what happens when you dump something like “critical theory” into everything?
The whole point of critical theory is to take simple and understood concepts and turn them into a jumble of gobbledygook in which your normal understanding of what things are and how things work into a total mess. That mess is created, actually, with a purpose.
That purpose is that we are subjected to a tyranny of those who claim to be in the know about the real state of the world, and the means is destroying your heuristic. Your understanding of how the world works becomes destroyed. It is paralyzing.
How can you make any rational choices if your understanding of how things work and what things are is completely undermined?
Basic concepts like “man” and “woman” become meaningless. You are literally prevented from using categories necessary to living life in a sane manner because your common sense–and that sense has to be common or we cannot even communicate–has been stripped from you.
Nothing in the world is what it appears, the critical theorist argues. You must submit to my superior understanding.
So you get this:
"Trans Marathoner Defeats 14,000 Women in Race after Competing as Man Months Earlier" #Cheater #SaveWomensSports #SaveWomensSpaces https://t.co/6CESVn3Sr6
— Harold Masters (@HaroldMasters9) April 25, 2023
He was a man in the last race, now he is a woman who shouts “girl power!” as he steals victory from a woman.
This has nothing to do with justice, which again is a concept that has been turned upside down, folded, spindled, and stapled. It has to do with power. Critical theorists themselves say this: language is power. This is why language is being destroyed in the service of transferring power from you and me to them and theirs.
Vermont school removes ‘male,’ ‘female’ terms from reproductive system lessons https://t.co/yiGdYqsDbG pic.twitter.com/HCjPjFyrc0
— New York Post (@nypost) April 26, 2023
It really isn’t about the gender theory, at least not only gender theory. It is about undermining your basic understanding of how the universe works and replacing it with…nothing, really. Every concept is always in flux, always on a spectrum, and totally indefinable. Literally indefinable. Gender theory is just very effective because it 1) empowers shock troops, and 2) really screws with your head on the most basic level. We know “man” and “woman” from basically the beginning of our lives.
It is a foundational piece of knowledge. If you can eliminate a category so basic, what can’t you do?
Watch as a Women’s Studies professor struggles and then attacks when asked the question “What is a woman?” He literally cannot answer the question without going into a melange of meaningless rants that wind up with his assertion of power and denigration of anybody who will not submit. Asking for a definition is oppression because it demands clarity while he wants you merely to submit to his whims.
He, not Matt, has institutional power. Matt is effectively fighting that power, but look around–the professor and his ilk are winning and team sanity is losing, at least for now. Every powerful institution is working to undermine reality.
Language gives us a common referent–a way to communicate based on a common experience where what is in our minds refers to something we share in common, and hence transfers thoughts from one person to another. It is imperfect, a heuristic if you will, but it works well enough for us to generally communicate and work together toward common goals.
Modern Leftism is about destroying that and replacing it with absolute power for themselves. They do not actually believe their underlying claims, because they communicate with each other with common referents, and share general goals. They actually believe in some form of reality whatever they claim.
Some will claim that gravity is a social construct (I have had this conversation with a critical theorist in grad school who claimed gravity was an expression of White supremacy), but none of these people jump out of windows believing they won’t hit the ground. They don’t act like they believe what they say, because they don’t. They simple changed the definition of the words they say without cluing you in.
Their goal is to create insanity in others . Insanity, as in the dissociation of our lived experience with that of reality. Actually, what they are trying to create is sort of a controlled psychosis, in which your understanding of reality is mediated through concepts that they control.
The very definitions of those concepts can and must change over time, to keep you off balance. You have seen this all the time, where claims about reality suddenly shift not due to some claim that new evidence arose that changed “the science,” but a shift in what “the science” is. We are expected to simply accept that what was true 5 minutes ago was never true, and what is true now has always been such.
Justin Trudeau just pulled this off in Canada regarding the jab, where he completely rewrites history. Fauci is doing the same here in the US. Randi Weingarten is literally claiming that the AFT tried to get schools opened quickly.
As conservatives who reject the destruction of the basic heuristic of daily life, we think we can “prove” that they are lying, and produce videos like this:
Trudeau thinks he can rewrite history… forgets the internet is forever!
pic.twitter.com/55aUfCZBBb
— MilkBarTV (@TheMilkBarTV) April 25, 2023
The video is, in fact, proof that Trudeau is lying. But so what? For the vast millions of people who have accepted that their basic understanding of the world is flawed and that the authorities have the correct understanding of the world, the proof is irrelevant.
You have had the experience, undoubtedly, where you have a conversation with a vaccine and mask fanatic and go through the evidence that neither of them works to prevent infection and transmission–these are, by now, uncontroversial and established facts backed by countless studies and our lived experience. When every major public health and political figure who wears masks and got the jab got COVID it was pretty obvious that neither work as advertised.
Yet these people cling to the masks and jabs as talismans. Evidence is irrelevant. Utterly irrelevant. The reality was defined, and they cling to this “reality” and simply cannot see the real world.
They are functionally insane. And because these people are in a sense psychotic–their “reality” is a creation and not based upon experience of any kind. They may be functional, but so are sociopaths. They are broken.
The modern Left has this goal: creating broken people. It is their means to power. It is their lifeblood. It is everything.
Every time a Leftist speaks, remember that they also assert that words have no inherent meaning. When they say “justice” it doesn’t mean what you think. When they say “genocide” as in “trans-genocide,” it has nothing to do with violence and killing. Everything they say has one goal: power.
They are using your heuristic against you–tapping into your understanding of the way things work and twisting it into something else, with the goal of redefining everything to their advantage.
For the Left, everything is power. And all power should be theirs.
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Basic concepts like “man” and “woman” become meaningless. You are literally prevented from using categories necessary to living life in a sane manner because your common sense–and that sense has to be common or we cannot even communicate–has been stripped from you.
The damage this will do to kids educated in this nonsense and who can't remember the "before times" when we acknowledged reality will be hard to comprehend.
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or identify, I’ll bet.
lol
Now THAT is just crazy that anyone would dispute the differences between the two.
For the folks who always insist that others "follow the science", when in the world will they start taking their own advice?
A male is a male and a female is a female.
Calling them something other doesn't change what they are.
We have a Supreme Court justice who cannot define what a woman is.
Imagine being told that in 1990.
Are you really going to defend that sentence?
We have a Supreme Court justice who cannot define what pornography means. I wouldn't look to them as experts.
Pornography is, in fact, subjective. Biology isn't.
Of course. When people demand biological men are called women and penalize people stating the obvious fact that "no, that man with a penis is in fact a man" than you are living in a system that promotes insanity.
Miguel Cardona (US Education Secretary) and Fatima Goss Graves (President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center) also couldn't define what a woman is.
Miguel Cardona
Fatima Goss Graves (start at 3:45)
They obviously never had biology classes in middle school and high school.
Then how do you explain children born with genitalia from both sexes?
How many children, if any, are born with functioning genitalia from both sexes?
And what does that have to do with the idea that a biological man without any female genitalia, can become a woman just be declaring that he is?
A birth defect.
I saw this and the first thing that came to mind was liberalism
This is a rare condition known as ambiguous genitalia .
Or just simply voluntary ignorance.
From your link : they are male or female, even with ambiguous genitalia:
Doesn't matter. They exist.
About 1 in 20,000 men has no Y chromosome, so you cannot use chromosomes as a standard.
Thank you for reading the entire article. I wish others had done the same.
That's a direct quote from ISNA (which you neglected to block quote and cite). It is located in paragraph 10:
ISNA is not a widely recognized medical/scientific organization. Its board does have quite a number of PhDs, social workers, and psychologists, though!
The rest of your comment is your own concoction.
Are ya' just trying to prove their point?
Of course it matters. Don't be ridiculous.
Regular people are pushed to the side
They are? Where?
All over, seems like being normal is not good anymore
The idea that because someone identifies as or wants to be what they are not and that has to be accepted proves regular people are pushed aside
Not in most cases. Competitive sports? Yes, there. But everywhere else? Not really. All it means is that we treat that specific person in a specific way. The rest of us will be fine.
Other than in sports, where how often does this actually come up really, seriously? Granted it would make some type of difference there - how this affects anyone else in any way, shape or form is foolish. NOT happening.
How does this prove people/anyone are pushed aside?
It does not seem regular people are important anymore,
It’s not a zero-sum game. Supporting one person’s worth does not mean the worth of some other person is diminished.
Are you pushed aside?
No, but it certainly happens sometimes.
I see no evidence that “regular people” aren’t important anymore.
Depends on how we define all that.
One could argue they never have been.
But I think the growing body of research connecting social media trends with mental health issues and relationship difficulties is evidence that "regular" people are struggling in a number of ways we may not yet understand fully.
So what exactly are "regular" people?
Used to work as a bouncer in a couple of strip clubs and that definition is open to debate.
Everybody seems to have their own definition.
Much like everybody has their own definition of a god.
Unfortunately nowadays it is the hard core liberal left who gets to determine what is considered normal/regular and what is not according to their standards.
Trying to replace Captain Meme?
But you are correct the left are hysterical.
I can do it all.
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I actually watched the interview on the video. It takes up the first two minutes of the footage.
Literally nothing asserted in the above quoted passage is actually true as seen on the video. The professor doesnt struggle, he answers the question in his good time. (His answer - a woman is someone who identifies as a woman) . He doesnt rant (doesnt even raise his voice) and "his assertion of power and denigration of anybody who will not submit" does not occur anywhere in the clip.
I think there are things to criticize about academia in relation to these topics, but the seeded article is hysteria. I wonder why?
The article accuses "the left" of wanting to control perception and language, which is funny because it is exactly what the writer is trying to do.
That is actually pretty funny considering that DeSantis and his "don't say gay" law, then white washing history classes in college and high schools.
So, a woman is someone who identifies as a woman. And we're supposed to accept that identity without questioning the claim.
What do we do when someone identifies as God? Since we're supposed to accept the chosen identity without question then the only thing allowed would be to worship them. Don't try to refute someone identifying as God as being farfetched; it's happened before and will happen again.
Just because someone claims to be God doesn't make it so. Just because someone claims to be a woman doesn't make so, either.
I try to pay as little attention as possible to "trans" news. It really doesnt interest me. I dont know any trans people, and dont ever expect to. But if I did , I would treat them like anyone else. I may not totally approve, but there a lot of types of people I dont totally approve.
We, as a society, spend far too much time on this topic, but some say that is necessary because the religious right wants to persecute these people, and I think there is some truth to that.
You are not allowed a choice to be disinterested. You are required to choose a side and fight. The issue is being deliberately shoved in your face and the provocations increase until you are forced to choose a side. Those in power are exploiting the issue for their own benefit. Those in power are starting a fight and then standing on the sidelines so they can point fingers and sound high-minded without actually doing anything.
Why is society being fed a constant stream of outrageous sensationalism? A trans woman being elected to public office is no longer a sensation; that doesn't attract much attention any longer. Public sensation has become so blasé that extreme outrageous behavior is necessary to attract attention. Attention seekers (influencers?) can't attract the spotlight by just being different any longer.
Nonsense.
Although I do in the end choose a side. I choose to leave these people alone.
These people, as you call them, won't leave you alone. The intent is to provoke you with increasingly outrageous behavior until you are forced to choose a side.
Being different is not sensational enough. Adopting a controversial position is not sensational enough. The only way to be sufficiently sensational to attract attention is to engage in uncivilized behavior.
Old, fat farts with beer bellies storming the Capitol isn't even sensational enough to attract attention. It's necessary to be a QAnon Shaman to attract attention.
I dont see that as a problem in the real world. Maybe you are ingesting too much sensationalist media.
So trans people provoke you to be prejudiced against them?
The news has become a marketplace for sensational incidents, outrageous behavior, and competition between provocative statements. In fact, the situation has become so bad that activists deliberately engage in extremely outrageous behavior so they will be highlighted in the news. Those who rely on social media to stay informed are likely unaware of what is happening.
You shouldn't rely on social media to stay informed then.
Stick with Faux 'news' and your other alternative reality sources.
No, you shouldn't rely on social media to stay informed. Doing so would only allow someone to talk about other people because they're too ignorant of events in the world to discuss the news.
It would be nice if you said something that made sense.
And speaking of ignorant . . .
Yes? Were you going to say something? Or did you lose the other half of the witticism?
When you enter the re-education program, you'll learn why this is bigoted hate speech.
No doubt by those who self-identify as an expert.
Maybe what we're witnessing is the George Santos effect. People can be whatever they choose to be for any occasion.
I worry much more about the many fascists that hate the other than I do about the few who self identify against their sexual chromosomes.
try to look at the positive aspects. personally, I'm really looking forward to making health and gender choices for xtian nationalists...
So dinosaurs aren't extinct so long as a human decides they are a dinosaur? Tom Brady. should he decide tomorrow that's what he wants will be as much an Indian as Sitting Bull. Racheal Dolzeal is a black woman.
Yes. See: Evolution of Birds
It’s official: birds are literally dinosaurs. Here’s how we know
Had a parrot once who thought he was a T-Rex!
Had another parrot who self identified as a lap dog.
Who was I to argue? Those beaks are sharp and powerful!
Not at all. While I give the author kudos for having a vocabulary above, "Ugh! Me not like this! This is BAD!" his criticism and reasoning align with that type of thinking. First off, the top quoted sentence is incorrect at the outset. The author does not take the time to lend any credence to or define what, if anything, they mean by "critical theory" but launches immediately into a diatribe that only inserts his definition, which is ...well, wrong. But that does not surprise me, because this opinion piece is guilty of what it claims to be protecting the readers from. Critical theory, not given any other words to work with, is the examination of an idea beyond what he calls a heuristic approach. In other words, one has to think critically about something. Oh, that must be it, David Strom has to think about something for more time than he wants. Boo fucking hoo, because while he was composing this article, he very well could have invested his time better by actually learning something of that which he was talking about. Instead, he just tears that thing down without delving into what it says or means. This is done with the purpose of setting up the "thinking about things is bad" and "listen to me and I will tell you how to think".
I guess that is just easier for some people to attack what they don't understand than to make any effort at all to think. Funny how they then expend critical amounts of time and energy into defending those positions. Brilliant! /s
Imagine equating a harmless social issue like gender identity with starvation.
That is not the whole point of critical theory. It’s not even a little bit of the point.
However, this statement reflects something I came to understand about evangelicals a long time ago. They are often obsessed with protecting themselves and their faith community from ideas that they are unfamiliar with, concepts and experiences they cannot relate to, and anything or anyone else that makes them uncomfortable. Music, tv shows, movies, books, and yes: social, academic, and political theories are all possible attempts by Satan to confuse the minds of the righteous and trick them into abandoning God.
To address this fear, they often advise that congregations shut themselves off from these influences, entirely. So, don’t listen to Heavy Metal music or hip hop. Don’t read a certain book - remove it from the library so no one can read it. CRT is just trying to confuse you, so ban it. We don’t understand trans people, so they must be stopped. It is a life and community drowning in fear. No wonder so many of them get so upset about this stuff.
I can't imagine getting so worked up about something that doesn't effect/affect you in any way.
Does this make you happy because this person couldn't access their money because of someone else's error? What's the purpose of posting this?
Call it an answer to 4.1.3.
How stupid. That didn't effect the life of someone else in a negative way. It effected the trans-persons' life in a negative way. It did the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of what you're saying.
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So tell me then, what 'many of us' think of me why don't you?
Said by someone that if they post something, it is the exact opposite of what they are trying to 'prove',