No Balm Can Soothe the Agonies of the Left
Via 4d2b: A female student is catcalled. The University of East Anglia’s postgrad education officer immediately spots the problem.
He’s enabling rapists.
Look, everyone. See how complicated and fascinating Laurie is.
We can’t sleep until we hear about Laurie’s gender status.
He was six years old when she left Downing Street. But she haunts him, even now.
It just is.
She’s so egalitarian, you mustn’t question her.
As a fearless leftwing journalist, Laurie has lots of it. She channels it into her work.
Two words to save the world. I think Mr Ezra is sceptical.
We must flee the outspoken women.
The piety, like the agony, never ends.
It’s a total cultural assault on women’s self-esteem.
I think he’s confusing compassion with narcissism.
And finally, and obviously, it’s what the homeless need.
Previous instalments can be found here. And for those who missed it, this week the hat is being passed around.
They rarely take their ideas out into the real world of hard knocks and attempt to apply them.
Unless you’re writing technical documentation (as I do) and your writing absolutely HAS TO concord with reality.
That said, most tech writers come from English and other Humanities departments and are already rooted hard in their Leftism. Being a tech writer can be a real downer, because the documentation is rarely a priority in the company — oddly enough, getting the product to actually work and work well by the release date is where they focus effort and resources — and so it’s easy to nurse resentments about how your work product is not valued.
Same as teaching in the Humanities, actually, which is why they won’t change their Leftism: always someone to resent for being more productive than you.
fantasy versions of themselves
I once jokingly described the ‘Agonies’ series as part anthropological collage, part psych profile.
I have nothing against female promiscuity, but it doesn’t strike me as a viable revolutionary strategy.
Female promiscuity reduces marriage, because men can get the milk for free without buying the whole cow (literal cow or figurative, take your pick).
It also increases the number of single moms, who look to the state as surrogate husband.
Increased single motherhood also increases the number of people who lack self-control (which fathers tend to instill), thus justifying the need for state intervention in all aspects of a child’s upbringing.
In short, the nuclear family is the primary bulwark against the Leviathan State and therefore the State’s primary enemy. Families transmit values that are antithetical to the State’s interests, values such as self-reliance, self-governance, self-control, and worshiping a God that doesn’t answer to the State.
Which is why those annoying “social issues” aren’t as peripheral as many think: they’re central. If you want a nation of independent, self-reliant people who see the State as servant rather than Master, make sure that as many children as possible are brought up in a stable home where mom & dad live, are married to each other, and that attend religious services regularly.
If you want State-controlled drones, bust up the nuclear family and cast out religion.
Or didn’t you notice that in all those dystopian novels, children are raised in incubators and State facilities instead of in families?
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Marx (Groucho)
In short, the nuclear family is the primary bulwark against the Leviathan State
This seems relevant. The last two paragraphs in particular.
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And having just scanned them, quite a few of the comments.
I keep wondering why LP keeps writing. I mean, surely she realises that every tweet, every column, every TV appearance she makes is crowding out the voice of a WoC. All those opportunities for Women of Colour to be able to speak, and she keeps stealing them…
I keep wondering why LP keeps writing.
Money and ego. Pure and simple.
All those opportunities for Women of Colour to be able to speak, and she keeps stealing them…
Ah, but as you are one of her loyal supporters and worshippers, you don’t ever notice that . . .
It’s one of those parts about following faith, instead of fact and reason . . . .
Children raised in unbearably chaotic, combative, or humiliating circumstances develop fantasy versions of themselves wherein they’re IN CONTROL or constantly needing drama or The Most Important or The Most Loved person in the History of the World.
Weeelllll, except when that is not what happens . . You’ve completely and accurately described my background, and the result for me is an ongoing and rather reasonable distaste for liars and incompetents, particularly the variety that demand to hold a declared administrative position—and often salary—and be admired for it, with zero intention of actually doing the job . . . .
And then, in turn, I have developed a hobby—and have sometimes gotten paid for it—of being the local administrator, traffic manager, stage manager, Etc . . . where by definition with all those, the point is to never get seen, never get noticed, and just keep everything running effortlessly and smoothly for everyone else . . . .
Weeelllll, except when that is not what happens
Good on ya. Luckily for the world entire, the bad upbringing doesn’t warp everyone severely enough to perpetuate the cycle. My father’s entire family consists of people with personality disorders, and yet my siblings and I have not developed them ourselves, thereby breaking the cycle.
Being around my mom’s family more than his was a big help. My friends also didn’t have narcissistic fathers, so it didn’t take us sibs long to figure out that our father was messed up and not to be emulated. He had been raised in one of those isolated, toxic little towns with more feuds and falling-outs than you can shake a stick at.
Have NONE of you heartless bastards seen the real agony here?
Unless it’s a particularly tasteless hoax, there’s a WOC among the tweeters called La’trine…
. . . there’s a WOC among the tweeters called La’trine…
Hmmm. Let’s consult the expert.