I started a post that I intended to finish tomorrow, but one thing led to another, and this introduction is long enough to qualify as a post. Even though it's only an introduction to a post.
If our lives are spent tunneling through reality, is there light at the end of the tunnel? Yes, but first we need to turn around and look at it. You know, metanoia, which literally means to turn around and look up, idiot.
This is in contrast to the para-noia which defines the left (and ideologues more generally). Noia is related to nous, i.e., the intellect, while para- relates to "defense" and "protection against," so paranoia is a defense against both reality and the mind capable of knowing it.
To the extent that you are paranoid, then you are in a reality tunnel with no light at the end of it. Which is just another way of saying that you're chained inside Plato's cave, imagining that the dancing shadows are the light.
Likewise, metanoia involves turning away from the shadows and toward the light streaming in from the mouth of the cave.
Now, paranoia is a psychological defense mechanism rooted in denial and projection, such that one's inside -- in particular, the Bad Stuff -- is projected outside and experienced as persecutory.
Not only is paranoia much more common than one might realize, it is ubiquitous, only normalized via mass indoctrination. Indeed, worthless disciplines such as Critical Race Theory, or Women's Studies, or transgender ideology, are just paranoia with a Ph.D. You could say that they're just mind parasite laundering.
A voice in my head says that transgender ideology is the sum of all intellectual heresies, and it's not wrong. For example, regarding the fondling fathers of transgenderism, Christopher Rufo writes that
If men can become women, and women men, they believed, the natural structure of Creation could be toppled (Hillsdale Imprimis, Sept. 2023).
So, from metanoia to paranoia; one such professor characterized its work as "a secular sermon"
that unabashedly advocates embracing a disruptive and refigurative genderqueer or transgender power as a spiritual resource for social and environmental transformation.
Oh, it's spiritual alright: except instead of turning toward the light, it wants us all to be riveted to the projected shadows, AKA darkness visible, AKA paranoia.
I remember writing a post that focused on the trans in transgender, which of course shares that prefix with transcendent. For there is no question that the so-called transgender person is seeking transcendence -- from their problems -- as if pretending to switch sexes somehow allows one to transcend the human condition.
To all you women out there who think that being a man solves anything: nah. Let's just stipulate that testosterone (and estrogen) create as many problems as they solve.
Come to think of it, to paraphrase something Harvey Mansfield said in his book Manliness, masculinity is required in order to deal with the many problems caused by masculinity.
So, yes, there is a "toxic masculinity" (or femininity) which is only transcended by "healthy masculinity" (or femininity). Or, just say that masculinity -- like any other human trait -- is situated on a vertical axis. Or pervertical axis, if you prefer.
Rufo points out that "the transgender movement is inherently political," and that it's just the same old Marxism transposed to the key of gender:
This is the great project of the transgender movement: to abolish the distinction of man and woman, to transcend the limitations established by God and nature, and to connect the personal struggle of trans individuals to the political struggle to transform society in a radical way.
To transform it from below, or rather, to force the shadows to be the light.
Or, to quote Václav Havel regarding communist ideology, "It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality."
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To all you women out there who think that being a man solves anything: nah. Let's just stipulate that testosterone (and estrogen) create as many problems as they solve.
I was just watching a video on Youtube yesterday talking about a new "trend" on Tiktok, where young women proclaim they don't want to be careerist girlbosses, working at jobs they hate in order to feel empowered. Sounds good for a moment, until it becomes apparent that virtually all of these women seem to think that "staying home" means they'll get to idyll their days away engaged in non-stop pampering and self-care. They don't actually want to be feminine, not really. They aren't dreaming of caring for home and family, raising kids, having a loving relationship (as if there's any room in their hearts for anyone but themselves). They want to be adult babies.
This is the great project of the transgender movement: to abolish the distinction of man and woman, to transcend the limitations established by God and nature, and to connect the personal struggle of trans individuals to the political struggle to transform society in a radical way.
How quickly, too, the movement goes from being atheistic to overtly satanic. Who would have guessed that "Satanic Temple Abortion Clinic" would not only be a thing that exists in America in 2023, but would be celebrated as a positive thing by a popular women's magazine?
News of the tautological: Study: Children of Conservative Parents Have Better Mental Health.
Where's that meme of the crying NPC when you need it?
That article is actually pretty interesting. The discussion of parental attitudes toward marriage - with one of the statements being "I hope my child marries someone, when the time is right" - is notable, inasmuch as it expresses a vested interest in helping your kids develop strong interpersonal relationship skills.
That is the nub of the trans movement; it is to fundamentally undermine ontological pillars of civilization. It's amusing when the left questions, why can't you be more accepting of diverse lifestyles?; what they are really saying is why can't you get out of the way so we can normalize all exceptions to the rule to the point where rules don't apply anymore? It's not compassion, it's nihilism.
What a triumphant coinage -- pervertical. Might I add that you have just lit a few neurons in my old noggin. I still remember as a two year old going on a trip to DC when LBJ was in the White House. I've spent all these ensuing years watching the grand parade of political, cultural and world events and so forth, feeling I am moving farther and farther from ever figuring it all out. You have led me to the correct term for what I feel as a "normal" old dude watching the passing scene circa 2023: Pervertigo.
I may have to steal that: "I'm not transphobic, just susceptible to pervertigo."
Off topic (but not really), for a change I can recommend a current movie. Just saw Godzilla Minus One, which managed the amazing feat of not simply being silly and entertaining, but tells a really engaging story with a strong character arc, which just happens to occasionally have a giant reptile wreaking havoc. It is not remotely woke, diverse, anti-family or dys-civilizational. No snark; no hatred for humanity, honor, or families. No overt messages about how humans are destroying the earth and must collectively change their wicked ways.
Giant reptile aside, it seems to hew pretty closely to the truth of what life was like in late- and post-WWII Japan for ordinary people, and ultimately it's ordinary people who step up and try to do something about it; if it's anti-anything, I'd have to call it anti-nihilistic.
I heard good things about that film Julie. As a child, I was quite enthralled with some of those early Godzilla films. I think even as a youngster, I found the Japanese women quite enchanting :).
That's so racist.
Ha - almost spat my coffee.
Ted, you'll be disappointed to know there are only two women featured prominently in the movie, and they stick very strongly to the roles of traditional Japanese women in the late 1940s.
"This is the great project of the transgender movement: to abolish the distinction of man and woman, to transcend the limitations established by God and nature, and to connect the personal struggle of trans individuals to the political struggle to transform society in a radical way"
Trans & Queer Theory, are a full on frontal assault upon Is.
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