There is a theme to today’s post, which reading only the headlines you won’t be able to guess. But it’s there. To start with one of an endless, and growing, stream of Rapes of Reality, here is a Supreme Court of Canada decision: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a recent sexual assault case that it was “problematic” for a lower court judge to refer to the alleged victim as a “woman,” implying that the more appropriate term should have been “person with a vagina.”
It's tough being Catholic these days that's for sure. Yes the World is crazy and getting crazier, even though it's really bad -that may be expected. But to have a Pope who is an open heretic, Clergy either mostly complicit or silent and a "Catholic" President that rejoices in late term abortion is very very disheartening. But our Hope was never in sinful men. Today is Holy Thursday, have a Good Friday and a Happy Easter.
Insane? Or very good at knowing how to demoralize a population by making them think their rulers are insane, and that they can do nothing about it?
I used to think the former. I'm increasingly coming to believe that, while the people themselves might be dumb, there might be powers (spiritual and/or material) guiding them that are smarter than we think. It just all keeps working out too nicely for them.
Read Ryszard Legutko's "The Demon in Democracy" not long after it was published in 2016. Spot on I thought. Saw the reference to it in The Upheaval's Substack and borrowed it again from the library. It's even more spot on. Alarmingly so, indeed. And thanks for the precious post on "The Courage To Open Fire" - have requested our library consortium (who, bless them, have purchased some pretty off message books after requests by me) to get me a copy of "The Camp of Saints".
“Our rulers are becoming more and more brazen. Not to mention insane and greedy. They will never remove themselves willingly.”
Unfortunately, even if the rulers were removed, the next in line will be just as insane, if not more so. If only we were being ruled by a maniacal monarch. Then we could just chop off his head and be done with it like in the good old days. But now it’s virtually the entire ruling class as well as the professional managerial class that have gone mad. That’s a much tougher nut to crack.
The purpose of this theatre of provocation is to incite widespread popular support for an even more deranged and authoritarian replacement. They also have a 'third way' option already prepared as a backup plan.
The inept people in charge have created so much real world problems that they have no hope of tackling. They now drift off to imaginary problems with solutions that cause even more real world problems for us.
I think I have realized something. In some sense a woman really is a human with a vagina, however changing from the emotional term "woman" to the sterile term "person with a vagina" eradicates the emotional implications of womanhood. I have realized that this tactic is familiar and actually very old. Many leftists say that a "baby" is actually just a "fetus" or a "clump of cells". Technically a fetus is a type of baby; technically all multicellular life is clumps of cells. The trajectory is to de-emotionalize so then we don't realize how horrible the situation is. "Woman" > "person with vagina" is the same as "baby" > "fetus". De-emotionalize and confuse so then real identities don't have implications.
I've always wondered about swearing an oath on a Bible. It seems logical to me that you would swear on something you personally believe. In my case, I guess that would be a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The debate over persons with vaginas is a good example of the way in which conservatives allow political forces to congeal yet believe criticizing the latest generation of terminology is the answer. Another substack writer suggested that ideology, in a sense follows political power. Arguing against a term related sexual identity is not a corrective when a large number of youths are already afflicted with sexual dysphoria.
Are we trying to cure lepers by picking at the sores on their lips?
An example: human rights bills are not, in many cases, laws as such. They are really modifications of many other laws and regulatory guidelines. A bill consisting of a few dozen pages is really a far reaching modifications to many laws. Even experienced experts must rely on speculation, political warfare outside their competency.*
A recent bill affected the courts, regulators and vastly expanded discretion down to lower level bureaucrats or employers. The facile terms may be appealing or contentious, but they are not really words at all. Conservatives may disagree with the abuse of language, but these are not even words in any definable way. They are, what Stephen Coughling calls attack narratives.
This tendency is all too evident in Canadia. Every federal party holds in their founding documents the sinister platitude that diversity is our strength.
Another exmaple: the conservatives never challenge the 1995 employment equity act. [For those not familiar with this 30 year old legislation, it mandates employers hire a portion of applicants members of the familiar victim groups. They must keep up-to date documenation of their efforts to 'represent' various groups, even to the point of offering raises and proportions to retain diversity hires. These efforts can be audited at the discretion of institutionally entrechned networks of petty tyrants.]
* Stephen Coughlin, who is a CIA expert in political warfare and subersion, provides a superb dissection of one "Racism", another attack narratives are disguised as words. https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/warning-on-racism/
[I apologize for the long post. This is a defining trait of 'the blob', where incompetence and membership in the uniparties are indistinguishable.
A person with a vagina. Yes. That’s what I learned at my mothers knee. Oh sorry, my birthing parent’s knee. Yes. I suppose that’s truly the language of insanity. Turning humans into things seems to be the point really. To convince a young girl that she’s just like a man but has a vagina is to divorce her from her real beauty and strength. She knows she’s nothing like a man. But now she has no idea what a woman is.To do that to a man is to emasculate him and have all of us helpless without his strength to defend us. I think it’s calculated to mostly confuse and destabilize, much like the toxic masculinity nonsense. As though a man’s basic nature can be toxic. Just ranting. Nothing profound here. Thanks for the article.
By the end of the 1800s The Powers That Were decided they wanted more wars. They needed a morally weak population and huge industries and large armies with many soldiers, to be blown up with the produce of the industries.
So, they decided to "invent" cities. Destroy small towns to destroy any and all moral and practical autonomy, force people into schools and massive universities to prevent the transmission of family values and religion and science, all to create good workers and good soldiers with near zero thoughts.
People would live in huge hive-buildings were they would be easier to control and corrupt. Pharma helped to sustain this ungodly way of living.
But today, they want to uninvent big cities, while keeping control of the population. Wars must go on, but not in my backyard, say The Powers That Are.
Thence, fifteen minutes cities.
Or, recover life in small towns, minus the sense of dignity and autonomy. And, of course, no religion is allowed. We have to remain rational, you see.
In the past, they used many dirty tricks to hoard people in big cities. In our time, they are using even dirtier tricks to chase people out of the cities, forfeiting property, and other things.
The apparent madness of rulers is, under this theory, pure theater.
Or a provocation that expects no response, because the people consent to all abuse and all crimes.
Our rulers have been insane for a long time in the U.S. and the West in general. Goes all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt's dreams of empire and Wilson and FDR. You have been sold an utter mythology about WWI and II, for example. Even Churchill called WWII "the unnecessary war" in his autobiography. But do most Americans know that our elites intentionally provoked Germany and Japan into a global war? If you doubt me, start with Day of Infamy by Robert Stenett. The U.S. Navy publicly announced much of what he states in the book are facts. FDR provoked Japan into war intentionally. Get that. We have been lied to for so long, the lies are compound lies now and form nothing short of an American Mythology. We are not here to save the world, nor can we do so....They will kill us all if we don't stop them NOW.
Long ago back in the day when Lucifer was a loyal servant of God he was assigned rulership over this planet. Sadly after he decided to identify as Satan, he became the most insane of our rulers. His servants here are legion.
It's tough being Catholic these days that's for sure. Yes the World is crazy and getting crazier, even though it's really bad -that may be expected. But to have a Pope who is an open heretic, Clergy either mostly complicit or silent and a "Catholic" President that rejoices in late term abortion is very very disheartening. But our Hope was never in sinful men. Today is Holy Thursday, have a Good Friday and a Happy Easter.
Insane? Or very good at knowing how to demoralize a population by making them think their rulers are insane, and that they can do nothing about it?
I used to think the former. I'm increasingly coming to believe that, while the people themselves might be dumb, there might be powers (spiritual and/or material) guiding them that are smarter than we think. It just all keeps working out too nicely for them.
Read Ryszard Legutko's "The Demon in Democracy" not long after it was published in 2016. Spot on I thought. Saw the reference to it in The Upheaval's Substack and borrowed it again from the library. It's even more spot on. Alarmingly so, indeed. And thanks for the precious post on "The Courage To Open Fire" - have requested our library consortium (who, bless them, have purchased some pretty off message books after requests by me) to get me a copy of "The Camp of Saints".
Not holding my breath on that one...
“Our rulers are becoming more and more brazen. Not to mention insane and greedy. They will never remove themselves willingly.”
Unfortunately, even if the rulers were removed, the next in line will be just as insane, if not more so. If only we were being ruled by a maniacal monarch. Then we could just chop off his head and be done with it like in the good old days. But now it’s virtually the entire ruling class as well as the professional managerial class that have gone mad. That’s a much tougher nut to crack.
I don’t remember who said but it bears repeating, the TRUTH sounds crazy in a world full of lies…
The purpose of this theatre of provocation is to incite widespread popular support for an even more deranged and authoritarian replacement. They also have a 'third way' option already prepared as a backup plan.
The inept people in charge have created so much real world problems that they have no hope of tackling. They now drift off to imaginary problems with solutions that cause even more real world problems for us.
Al least Ludwig 2 supported some great music (questionable taste in architecture notwithstanding).
I think I have realized something. In some sense a woman really is a human with a vagina, however changing from the emotional term "woman" to the sterile term "person with a vagina" eradicates the emotional implications of womanhood. I have realized that this tactic is familiar and actually very old. Many leftists say that a "baby" is actually just a "fetus" or a "clump of cells". Technically a fetus is a type of baby; technically all multicellular life is clumps of cells. The trajectory is to de-emotionalize so then we don't realize how horrible the situation is. "Woman" > "person with vagina" is the same as "baby" > "fetus". De-emotionalize and confuse so then real identities don't have implications.
As for the persons with a certain body parts removed, we shall not forget the “smoothies.” A perfect smoothie also has postate removed as well.
I've always wondered about swearing an oath on a Bible. It seems logical to me that you would swear on something you personally believe. In my case, I guess that would be a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The debate over persons with vaginas is a good example of the way in which conservatives allow political forces to congeal yet believe criticizing the latest generation of terminology is the answer. Another substack writer suggested that ideology, in a sense follows political power. Arguing against a term related sexual identity is not a corrective when a large number of youths are already afflicted with sexual dysphoria.
Are we trying to cure lepers by picking at the sores on their lips?
An example: human rights bills are not, in many cases, laws as such. They are really modifications of many other laws and regulatory guidelines. A bill consisting of a few dozen pages is really a far reaching modifications to many laws. Even experienced experts must rely on speculation, political warfare outside their competency.*
A recent bill affected the courts, regulators and vastly expanded discretion down to lower level bureaucrats or employers. The facile terms may be appealing or contentious, but they are not really words at all. Conservatives may disagree with the abuse of language, but these are not even words in any definable way. They are, what Stephen Coughling calls attack narratives.
This tendency is all too evident in Canadia. Every federal party holds in their founding documents the sinister platitude that diversity is our strength.
Another exmaple: the conservatives never challenge the 1995 employment equity act. [For those not familiar with this 30 year old legislation, it mandates employers hire a portion of applicants members of the familiar victim groups. They must keep up-to date documenation of their efforts to 'represent' various groups, even to the point of offering raises and proportions to retain diversity hires. These efforts can be audited at the discretion of institutionally entrechned networks of petty tyrants.]
* Stephen Coughlin, who is a CIA expert in political warfare and subersion, provides a superb dissection of one "Racism", another attack narratives are disguised as words. https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/warning-on-racism/
[I apologize for the long post. This is a defining trait of 'the blob', where incompetence and membership in the uniparties are indistinguishable.
A person with a vagina. Yes. That’s what I learned at my mothers knee. Oh sorry, my birthing parent’s knee. Yes. I suppose that’s truly the language of insanity. Turning humans into things seems to be the point really. To convince a young girl that she’s just like a man but has a vagina is to divorce her from her real beauty and strength. She knows she’s nothing like a man. But now she has no idea what a woman is.To do that to a man is to emasculate him and have all of us helpless without his strength to defend us. I think it’s calculated to mostly confuse and destabilize, much like the toxic masculinity nonsense. As though a man’s basic nature can be toxic. Just ranting. Nothing profound here. Thanks for the article.
There is a theory to explain all this insanity.
By the end of the 1800s The Powers That Were decided they wanted more wars. They needed a morally weak population and huge industries and large armies with many soldiers, to be blown up with the produce of the industries.
So, they decided to "invent" cities. Destroy small towns to destroy any and all moral and practical autonomy, force people into schools and massive universities to prevent the transmission of family values and religion and science, all to create good workers and good soldiers with near zero thoughts.
People would live in huge hive-buildings were they would be easier to control and corrupt. Pharma helped to sustain this ungodly way of living.
But today, they want to uninvent big cities, while keeping control of the population. Wars must go on, but not in my backyard, say The Powers That Are.
Thence, fifteen minutes cities.
Or, recover life in small towns, minus the sense of dignity and autonomy. And, of course, no religion is allowed. We have to remain rational, you see.
In the past, they used many dirty tricks to hoard people in big cities. In our time, they are using even dirtier tricks to chase people out of the cities, forfeiting property, and other things.
The apparent madness of rulers is, under this theory, pure theater.
Or a provocation that expects no response, because the people consent to all abuse and all crimes.
Our rulers have been insane for a long time in the U.S. and the West in general. Goes all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt's dreams of empire and Wilson and FDR. You have been sold an utter mythology about WWI and II, for example. Even Churchill called WWII "the unnecessary war" in his autobiography. But do most Americans know that our elites intentionally provoked Germany and Japan into a global war? If you doubt me, start with Day of Infamy by Robert Stenett. The U.S. Navy publicly announced much of what he states in the book are facts. FDR provoked Japan into war intentionally. Get that. We have been lied to for so long, the lies are compound lies now and form nothing short of an American Mythology. We are not here to save the world, nor can we do so....They will kill us all if we don't stop them NOW.
Long ago back in the day when Lucifer was a loyal servant of God he was assigned rulership over this planet. Sadly after he decided to identify as Satan, he became the most insane of our rulers. His servants here are legion.