I've long contended that this is an age of mass psychosis and that future generations, if there are such, will look back on this as The Stark (Raving mad, Bat S___ crazy, howling at the moon lunacy) Ages.
I would usually make an argument about American usage, 'republic', and 'democracy', but it feels not relevant.
'democracy has failed' is basically a claim of someone for whom 'democracy' or a 'republic' always had strictly utilitarian value. They liked the policies, or they liked manipulating it into power.
Strictly speaking, theory describes the past, and the categories we label may not always be as absolute as we pretend. Types of government come from aggregating distinct situations, and for a given time, place and population, the trades between several may be pretty close. How angry persons are, how readily violent, and how able and willing they are to resolve disputes may be a bit relevant.
In a republic, or democracy, an army distributes political or government power among its soldiers. This is the pragmatic incentive, with no idealism. It assumes that the men of the population are also an army in control of the territory. The pragmatic virtue is that the result is probably not something that they would fight and die to stop, but see civil wars.
This is not something that extends to an international consensus among 'experts'. Different cultures pretty much cannot form the societal deals so perfectly that they could build a single functioning army. That democracy could serve the internationalist end was only plausible so long as the ensuing disputes and anger were not strong. The 'sustainable' policy was never truly sustainable, because it sought to inflict cost without compensation, and without any real grasp of what the food supply requires, nor that people will want to eat.
The other aspect of internationalism and democracy, is whether democracy at all exists where the population neither has enough arms and willingness to use, nor a very strong conviction of the ideals of democracy. Certainly, ideals are not uniform across the planet, so we should not expect uniform behavior.
Re: current problems.
I think there are answers, and some of them may even be really good.
We shall see about the results that these performers claim to be able to cause. They claimed, for example, that four years of Biden would be enough results for the emotional weight that they put on that goal.
In the US, the case of a clear easy Trump win, and senior bureaucrats attempting resistance, could be surprising. We do not entirely know how many of the people inside the US civil service really hated Biden's policies, or simply are eager to act on personal grudges. Dunno, we may see.
Future events are potentially very interesting, but also potentially something it would be healthier for me to ignore in favor of other interesting things.
“This is not something that extends to an international consensus among 'experts'. Different cultures pretty much cannot form the societal deals so perfectly that they could build a single functioning army. “
Until Covid. It is the universal, except Sweden, embrace of the exact same policies, differing only in timing and severity, by all governments worldwide despite their different histories and cultures. This has never been seen in human history, thus I am firmly of the belief that all countries are at least cooperating on all things Covid.
We know enough on how the bureaucracy of the U.S. thinks through their actions. We know that the IRS sat on applications for tax free status of the rival parties of the Obama admin. And that the person who ordered it not only escaped punishment, she was given a bonus of $300,000. Up until that was reported, I had no idea that civil servants could even receive bonuses. But I digress. Sara Palin and those close to her suddenly were the subjects of audits be various Fed agencies. So too was Dr. Benny Carson after he made statements embarrassing the Obama admin at a Washington D. C. Prayer breakfast with Obama present. In recent weeks, a doctor and a nurse who have blown the whistle on continuing sex change “treatments” of minors have been suddenly visited by the FBI, with the doctor being formally charged. Then we have the several serving time or sentenced to serve time for contempt of Congress. What is the party affiliation of all of these, or more precisely, who did the work for? Meanwhile, Eric Holder, Obama’s Attorney General served no time when he committed the same crime. How many of Epstein’s client’s have even been named, not to mention, arrested?
These are just the incidents that are at the forefront of my mind, there are others, too many to recount here. We know the mind of the bureaucrats.
Your assessment of history is inaccurate. First, in assuming that "the people" WILL act when circling the drain. Second, that they won't do so until then. The reality is simpler. The probability of the people acting increases the closer we get to going down the drain, but it is never either 0% or 100%.
I believe the US is. Every issue we are dealing with there and from there has decades in the making, and no one stopped any of it. In the US, we have to fight to get men out of girls’ restrooms and locker rooms. No one fought to keep them out, now we must fight to get them out for they are there now. Anyone really fighting now? Everyday we allow men to use girls facilities, girls are being victimized to varying degrees.
Families are losing their kids over various LGBTQWTFO policies, and by losing I am focusing on courts removing kids from their homes and denying parental rights in various ways. Not just in blue States either. And, this is not new. To keep our own kids, we must fight against our own government, and we must fight largely alone. We must because we did not fight against these policies until they started ripping families apart and even then, we are not.
If we are unwilling to fight to prevent these, I find it hard to believe we will fight for anything. Seriously, if we do not fight against men changing with girls, what will we fight over?
From what I see, we have stopped nothing. Not a single thing. At best, what efforts have been made have been successful as speed bumps and nothing more. When we get what we believe to be a deceive victory, we celebrate as if we have won the war. During or immediately after our self congratulatory celebrations, we find that they out flanked us and we have to give up the field. We never designate a single hill as the one to die on, preferring always to skedaddling to live to “fight” another day. I am in my mid 50s and I have yet to see any progressive measure stopped. Delayed, slowed down, yeas, but not one stopped. I have watch this LGBTQWTFO BS “progress“ for decades.
Example, my mom stated a little while ago that marriage is between a man and a woman, period. I responded, “No, mom, we lost that battle. Actually, we didn’t even fight it.” Just last night I began seeing feeds of some pride parade somewhere on the left coast of the US. Billed as “family friendly”, there were fully nude people parading an commingling with kids. What meaningful resistance was there to prevent this? Answer is “none”, as it was not prevented.
Texas passed a law preventing the mutilation of minors with “sex change” procedures. At least one hospital has broken the law and continued to offer these “services”. A doctor working there anonymously blew the whistle. The federal FBI has charged him with multiple crimes. A nurse has done the same and the FBI has shown up at her front door.
I teach at medical schools in Japan. Just before the panic, a 1st year med student, Japanese, told me that I was wrong to use binary language with patients. I was hoodwinked into doing a peer reviewed for an English Language education journal on an “study” on the vital importance of using the proper pronouns with patients. I have since found textbooks going back several years, 2016 if memory serves, in use in Japan teaching this stuff.
But it is not just the LGBTQWTFO stuff, though it too is interwoven into ESGs, SDGs, and DEI that is omnipresent here in Japan as well as the West. And I mean omnipresent; on posters on the trains, buses, train stations, laundry mats, dry cleaners, supermarket, museums, athletic facilities, children’s newspapers, textbooks for elementary school and crams schools, advertisements in all media, on the website banners of all universities here, and woven throughout classroom materials. And most do not even have the faintest clue what anyone this is all about. So, they certainly are not fighting it.
On the eve of the panic, I was teaching at 3 medical schools, two nursing schools, two vocational schools related to medicine, one of these for just one semester the other year round and had numerous classes and lessons for a food service companies employees. I had 27 classroom hours a week. I was earning the most I ever had. Due to the panic and all the rest of this BS, I am currently employed at only one medical school but teach half the lessons I once had there, only one nursing school but now for only half a year instead of the full year. While I still have both of my vocational schools, the one that was years round is now only one semester ad instead of two classes, I have just one. A portion of the classes I had for the food service company I teach for have recently resumed but not nearly as many as I used to have.
Thus, I have not been able to provide financial support for my family for well over a year. With the first semester classes wrapping up, I am looking at complete insolvency before year’s end. Each time I enter a campus I wonder if it is my last as I ignore their masking rules and will not teach LGBTQWTFO, ESG, DEI, SDG content.
How many more decades must In wait to see this madness driven from the field? I have weeks left.
Excellent essay.
I've long contended that this is an age of mass psychosis and that future generations, if there are such, will look back on this as The Stark (Raving mad, Bat S___ crazy, howling at the moon lunacy) Ages.
Hmm.
I would usually make an argument about American usage, 'republic', and 'democracy', but it feels not relevant.
'democracy has failed' is basically a claim of someone for whom 'democracy' or a 'republic' always had strictly utilitarian value. They liked the policies, or they liked manipulating it into power.
Strictly speaking, theory describes the past, and the categories we label may not always be as absolute as we pretend. Types of government come from aggregating distinct situations, and for a given time, place and population, the trades between several may be pretty close. How angry persons are, how readily violent, and how able and willing they are to resolve disputes may be a bit relevant.
In a republic, or democracy, an army distributes political or government power among its soldiers. This is the pragmatic incentive, with no idealism. It assumes that the men of the population are also an army in control of the territory. The pragmatic virtue is that the result is probably not something that they would fight and die to stop, but see civil wars.
This is not something that extends to an international consensus among 'experts'. Different cultures pretty much cannot form the societal deals so perfectly that they could build a single functioning army. That democracy could serve the internationalist end was only plausible so long as the ensuing disputes and anger were not strong. The 'sustainable' policy was never truly sustainable, because it sought to inflict cost without compensation, and without any real grasp of what the food supply requires, nor that people will want to eat.
The other aspect of internationalism and democracy, is whether democracy at all exists where the population neither has enough arms and willingness to use, nor a very strong conviction of the ideals of democracy. Certainly, ideals are not uniform across the planet, so we should not expect uniform behavior.
Re: current problems.
I think there are answers, and some of them may even be really good.
We shall see about the results that these performers claim to be able to cause. They claimed, for example, that four years of Biden would be enough results for the emotional weight that they put on that goal.
In the US, the case of a clear easy Trump win, and senior bureaucrats attempting resistance, could be surprising. We do not entirely know how many of the people inside the US civil service really hated Biden's policies, or simply are eager to act on personal grudges. Dunno, we may see.
Future events are potentially very interesting, but also potentially something it would be healthier for me to ignore in favor of other interesting things.
“This is not something that extends to an international consensus among 'experts'. Different cultures pretty much cannot form the societal deals so perfectly that they could build a single functioning army. “
Until Covid. It is the universal, except Sweden, embrace of the exact same policies, differing only in timing and severity, by all governments worldwide despite their different histories and cultures. This has never been seen in human history, thus I am firmly of the belief that all countries are at least cooperating on all things Covid.
We know enough on how the bureaucracy of the U.S. thinks through their actions. We know that the IRS sat on applications for tax free status of the rival parties of the Obama admin. And that the person who ordered it not only escaped punishment, she was given a bonus of $300,000. Up until that was reported, I had no idea that civil servants could even receive bonuses. But I digress. Sara Palin and those close to her suddenly were the subjects of audits be various Fed agencies. So too was Dr. Benny Carson after he made statements embarrassing the Obama admin at a Washington D. C. Prayer breakfast with Obama present. In recent weeks, a doctor and a nurse who have blown the whistle on continuing sex change “treatments” of minors have been suddenly visited by the FBI, with the doctor being formally charged. Then we have the several serving time or sentenced to serve time for contempt of Congress. What is the party affiliation of all of these, or more precisely, who did the work for? Meanwhile, Eric Holder, Obama’s Attorney General served no time when he committed the same crime. How many of Epstein’s client’s have even been named, not to mention, arrested?
These are just the incidents that are at the forefront of my mind, there are others, too many to recount here. We know the mind of the bureaucrats.
History tells us that the people will not act until circling the drain.
Which is what worries me a lot.
Your assessment of history is inaccurate. First, in assuming that "the people" WILL act when circling the drain. Second, that they won't do so until then. The reality is simpler. The probability of the people acting increases the closer we get to going down the drain, but it is never either 0% or 100%.
Respectfully.
Are we not circling the drain? Have people acted in any meaningful way? In sufficient numbers?
I think we aren't there yet. It took Argentina years if not decades before they elected Millei
I believe the US is. Every issue we are dealing with there and from there has decades in the making, and no one stopped any of it. In the US, we have to fight to get men out of girls’ restrooms and locker rooms. No one fought to keep them out, now we must fight to get them out for they are there now. Anyone really fighting now? Everyday we allow men to use girls facilities, girls are being victimized to varying degrees.
Families are losing their kids over various LGBTQWTFO policies, and by losing I am focusing on courts removing kids from their homes and denying parental rights in various ways. Not just in blue States either. And, this is not new. To keep our own kids, we must fight against our own government, and we must fight largely alone. We must because we did not fight against these policies until they started ripping families apart and even then, we are not.
If we are unwilling to fight to prevent these, I find it hard to believe we will fight for anything. Seriously, if we do not fight against men changing with girls, what will we fight over?
1) No, but I will agree with you that it is a very real threat.
2) Yes, people have acted in meaningful ways.
3) In sufficient numbers to stop EVERY bit of VileProg madness? No, but some has been stopped, and more will be stopped.
Will it be enough? I don't know. I believe we CAN stop the VileProgs and other corrosive actors. Will we? Again, I don't know.
Respectfully.
From what I see, we have stopped nothing. Not a single thing. At best, what efforts have been made have been successful as speed bumps and nothing more. When we get what we believe to be a deceive victory, we celebrate as if we have won the war. During or immediately after our self congratulatory celebrations, we find that they out flanked us and we have to give up the field. We never designate a single hill as the one to die on, preferring always to skedaddling to live to “fight” another day. I am in my mid 50s and I have yet to see any progressive measure stopped. Delayed, slowed down, yeas, but not one stopped. I have watch this LGBTQWTFO BS “progress“ for decades.
Example, my mom stated a little while ago that marriage is between a man and a woman, period. I responded, “No, mom, we lost that battle. Actually, we didn’t even fight it.” Just last night I began seeing feeds of some pride parade somewhere on the left coast of the US. Billed as “family friendly”, there were fully nude people parading an commingling with kids. What meaningful resistance was there to prevent this? Answer is “none”, as it was not prevented.
Texas passed a law preventing the mutilation of minors with “sex change” procedures. At least one hospital has broken the law and continued to offer these “services”. A doctor working there anonymously blew the whistle. The federal FBI has charged him with multiple crimes. A nurse has done the same and the FBI has shown up at her front door.
I teach at medical schools in Japan. Just before the panic, a 1st year med student, Japanese, told me that I was wrong to use binary language with patients. I was hoodwinked into doing a peer reviewed for an English Language education journal on an “study” on the vital importance of using the proper pronouns with patients. I have since found textbooks going back several years, 2016 if memory serves, in use in Japan teaching this stuff.
But it is not just the LGBTQWTFO stuff, though it too is interwoven into ESGs, SDGs, and DEI that is omnipresent here in Japan as well as the West. And I mean omnipresent; on posters on the trains, buses, train stations, laundry mats, dry cleaners, supermarket, museums, athletic facilities, children’s newspapers, textbooks for elementary school and crams schools, advertisements in all media, on the website banners of all universities here, and woven throughout classroom materials. And most do not even have the faintest clue what anyone this is all about. So, they certainly are not fighting it.
On the eve of the panic, I was teaching at 3 medical schools, two nursing schools, two vocational schools related to medicine, one of these for just one semester the other year round and had numerous classes and lessons for a food service companies employees. I had 27 classroom hours a week. I was earning the most I ever had. Due to the panic and all the rest of this BS, I am currently employed at only one medical school but teach half the lessons I once had there, only one nursing school but now for only half a year instead of the full year. While I still have both of my vocational schools, the one that was years round is now only one semester ad instead of two classes, I have just one. A portion of the classes I had for the food service company I teach for have recently resumed but not nearly as many as I used to have.
Thus, I have not been able to provide financial support for my family for well over a year. With the first semester classes wrapping up, I am looking at complete insolvency before year’s end. Each time I enter a campus I wonder if it is my last as I ignore their masking rules and will not teach LGBTQWTFO, ESG, DEI, SDG content.
How many more decades must In wait to see this madness driven from the field? I have weeks left.