She Should “Just Be Able To Have” Things
Via Mr Muldoon in the comments, umbrage is detected:
I've been saying it forever: they're upset that they've been asked to participate in their own survival. No clearer distillation of the worldview than here. https://t.co/QRawwks7eU
— wanye (@wanyeburkett) November 13, 2023
As this chap quips in reply,
And this one,
Update, via the comments:
Rafi adds,
Well, addressing the matter earlier might have spared our unhappy madam a lot of pierced and tattooed grumpiness.
There is, of course, plenty of scope for grumbling about the seemingly endless range of things that can be taxed. And existential angst – or existential pouting – can be difficult to avoid, the human condition being what it is. See the aforementioned “bug reports to God.” But the emotional assumption that Things Should Just Be There For Me, Forever, In Unlimited Quantities™ is, I think, something best addressed before one’s children venture out into the world.
Children who, as adults, may then make TikTok videos of themselves bemoaning the fact that they aren’t simply being given a free house, and free food, and a free car, and free petrol for the free car. Children who, as adults, may then seem genuinely bewildered by the prospect of being responsible for the feeding and clothing of any children that they, in turn, might have.
Another thing occurs to me. If pretty much everything you need, or want, should just somehow be there anyway, on an indefinite basis, via some oddly unarticulated rearrangement of the universe, then it’s not obvious how gratitude might fit into such a mindset.
Also, open thread.
That.
I like that you tagged this ‘parenting’.
Well, addressing the matter earlier might have spared her a lot of pierced and tattooed grumpiness.
There is, of course, plenty of scope for grumbling about the seemingly endless range of things that can be taxed. And existential angst – or existential pouting – can be difficult to avoid, the human condition being what it is. But the emotional assumption that Things Should Just Be There For Me, Forever, In Unlimited Quantities™ is, I think, something best addressed before one’s children venture out into the world.
If nothing else, it would spare us from more unhappy madams making TikTok videos in their cars.
Another thing occurs to me. If pretty much everything you need, or want, should just somehow be there anyway, on an indefinite basis, via some oddly unarticulated rearrangement of the universe, then it’s not obvious how gratitude might fit into such a mindset.
I’m now wondering whether such attitudes are less common among people who grew up with siblings.
Also this:
So… Just where is all the stuff going to come from if no one is working?
Or am I going beyond her capability to understand?
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Only today the opthalmologist peered into the jelly looking or clues to my declining vision. “Inflammation” was his conclusion. Ugh!! Every time i hear that word, the mental picture of those piercings comes to mind surrounded by their raging aureole of infection. Looks like Big Pharma has been kind to this one. I learn that all inflammation is not so grisly.
Everyone else should work for nothing and be my slaves.
Depends on the parents. I have found very similar attitudes, though not quite this extreme, amongst the youngest/younger children in large families. Thinking specifically of a couple of very well off families in my personal observation, not saying that’s necessarily a factor. The older the parent, the larger the family, the less and less attention they can pay to each successive child.
In regard to parenting in general, I agree it’s a big factor. Especially as we have consigned spanking to the dustbin of discipline. But once said child moves out into a world where there are so many safe spaces for them, especially if they or their family are connected, and even welfare systems for those who are not, the education system and the news and entertainment media provide significant cover to allow such attitudes to take root. Eventually, as they age out, these children become useless to those entities supporting them and they either are forced to grow up the hard way or, more often the case, they descend into the innumerable forms of self-abuse. Again, just my ignorant observation.
That would seem to be one of the more obvious complications. Again, a bug report to God.
There’s very often an assumption that the familiar baseline of material and psychological comfort – i.e., civilisation – just somehow exists, as if it were a cosmic default. As if the notion of survival as a pressing imperative were utterly alien.
Just like a two year-old child.
“This girl gets it.” Dr. Jebra Faushay, whoever that is, approves her sentiment, along with a lot of other people on that original Twitter thread.
So long as adult leftists are around, who can radicalize and harden this young woman’s childish resentments, she will never grow out of them, any more than she can grow out of her tattoos.
I think that’s sarcasm.
I think that’s sarcasm.
Indeed it is, have a scroll.
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As someone who isn’t a parent, I’m faintly surprised by how much mileage I get out of that tag. Didn’t see that coming.
Is ‘she’ a badly made cyborg? I mean, they could have done a better job of concealing the bolts that hold the 2 halves of her head together.
Morlocks?
Because you’re not a child anymore.
I know it”s beside the point, but maybe someone should tell this lady what life insurance is actually for…hint: it’s not for when you “almost” die.
Taxes: and yet people who want “free things” vote for more taxes.
Or robots.
Not to go Ed Driscoll (spit) and stuff but I highly suggest reading the whole thing.
https://ilyashapiro.substack.com/p/bari-weisss-speech-for-the-ages
Maybe not.
There was once a man who, unable to find anything else to complain about, complained that there were too many prehistoric frogs in his coal. — Mark Twain
One small step . . .
Or robots.
Only with Full Luxury Communism™ in the GWONT, tovarich.
Meanwhile, sort of on the topic of robots, over in Birmingham (England) big medical education news.
Because of course they are. Also this one. If anyone needs the hamster spray, we’re in trouble.
[ Considers sitting in car and making a grumpy TikTok video. ]
Oh, but then I’d have to put some shoes on and go outside, and then I’d have to install TikTok, and it’s just so much bloody work.
Robots aren’t that stupid.
But they didn’t make their way in the world – they made their way in academia, an insular place at best.
Complaining: I used to bitch about life. I noticed in high school for example that girls were impressed by guys with nice cars…even though it was the father’s car. I was kind of resentful of that. But in my early twenties I was bitching to a cute girl and I noticed her face reflected distaste. Vowed to not complain again, and have mostly kept my promise to myself. It is far less work to be resentful than to make the best of whatever circumstances one has. So bitching is ideal for the lazy.
I had a friend from mainland China who grew up in Mao’s “reeducation camps”. He was so grateful to be here that he worked his ass off to not have to go back. Having some perspective is very helpful.
Fairness is something that everyone is sensitive to. Detection of unfairness triggers resentment. The problem is that it is easy to “detect” unfairness that is cosmic, in the Sowell sense. For example, someone may have a desire to be a great athlete, but lacks the genetic ability (too short, not fast, whatever). This is a cosmic injustice that good athletes did not cause. It is no one’s fault. Given what ability one does have, one can be active, even if never running a marathon. One can be proud of being active in this sense.
It is true that a few people are born rich and do not have to work. Again, this is cosmic injustice. You can dwell on it and turn into a bitter person, or get on with making a good life for yourself.
Speaking of fairness.
Exactly. Well mostly. They also “made their way” in HR departments and psychology and government and even…dare I say law? The insular grows with the acceleration in a society’s ability to create more wealth than they know what to do with while simultaneously protecting succeeding generations from learning anything via the real school of hard knocks. So then when the productive ones die, they leave their wealth to their (often) insular prodigy and the cycle feeds into itself. Until the Gods of the Copybook Headings awake and the wheels come off.
I would take exception with that characterisation. That something is unfair does not make it unjust.
Have to say I’m surprised by the intellectual honesty.
Why are we weigh’d upon with heaviness,
And utterly consumed with sharp distress,
While all things else have rest from weariness?
All things have rest: why should we toil alone,
We only toil, who are the first of things,
And make perpetual moan,
Still from one sorrow to another thrown
And “we didn’t ask to be born”. I think Burke’s observation that people will only ever learn at the school of experience is being reinforced here. Or maybe that bit about misery in Job 14.
I’d imagine such dissonance is quite commonplace among teachers, and the mismatch of pretence and observable reality may go some way towards explaining why so many of them seem a little twitchy and not entirely well. It may also help explain the near-manic emphasis on political activism, and expected conformity, over basic academics.
Turns out that yet another progressive fiefdom has become a pathological environment. And they’re stuck in it too.
More to my point:
https://freebeacon.com/israel/hes-a-communist-trust-fund-baby-who-inherited-millions-now-hes-using-daddys-money-to-harass-jews/
Has our good host been moonlighting?
I’ll lay even odds that at least one of these posts is from faculty or administration
The thing about these people tearing down hostage posters is the sudden uncomfortable feeling of shame for the first time
I take some comfort in knowing that Jew haters are the absolute stupidest people on Planet Earth
And the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Mutilating Civilians goes to:
She is too young and too confused to realize that work is a good thing. If you sit around with nothing to do all day you go to seed or worse.
Or you wind up quoting Tennyson on someone else’s blog. Hmmm…the leaves need raking…
Speaking of fairness…
That appeared on the r/Teachers subreddit, and (yesterday, anyway) the comments were uniformly of the “the kids are now barbarians, and administration is not on my side”
Clearly the doctor is negligent and ignorant of biology because it is also abundantly clear this lady has “transitioned” to a man because her complete biology has changed because (checks notes) she is taking testosterone.
Science!™
/Sarcasm
I hang my head in shame. So much social media content seems like parody, I apparently am unable to tell the difference anymore.
Nothing to be ashamed of.
Yesterday’s parody is today’s ruthlessly enforced dogma.
Heh. Of all things. I dissed Ed Driscoll here for probably the first time ever…here, and wouldn’t you know Eddie boosted this very post. Sigh. Why do I do things like this?
Aelfheld, re “Pulitzer” and the thread regarding not believing everything before reporting it…
I was vastly irritated today to hear the reporting on NPR about the Israeli claims about Hamas military facilities being found under hospitals.
Every other sentence was some variation on “unable to independently verify”. And casualty reports from the Hamas Health Ministry” were quoted without reservation.
You bastards, I heard every word of your panting reportage about the 500 dead in the hospital attacked by IDF. Zero, I mean ZERO reluctance to reprint Hamas press releases.
GFY, NPR.
then I’d have to install TikTok, and it’s just so much bloody work
Well, you did say you were looking a replacement for Hades’ Star.
From the comments under the clearly male purple headed freak video:
The doctor does not have time to play make believe with these people.
My two favourite fictional characters are Scrubs‘ Dr. Cox and the doctor from The Hangover. There is a certain cathartic satisfaction in watching an acknowledged master of their field say “I’m right, you’re wrong, and I’m not going to waste my time explaining it to you.”
She wants to sit up on the veranda and sip mint juleps while others do the work for her. The mere thought of her doing work gives her the vapors. Fiddle-dee-dee!
“I do not push anything on my students.” I actually laughed.
Again, the dissonance must be quite something. The pretence – in this case, of not being an unhinged indoctrinator – jars somewhat with the list of things with which he boasts of indoctrinating children, practically in the same breath. And of course the agitated, rather gleeful contempt for any parent who may have reservations.
I mean, seriously, you wouldn’t want to be in that head.
And it would not, I think, be wise to allow Mr Domenic, or anyone like him, to have any prolonged influence or authority over one’s children. Say, for several hours a day, every day, for years.
Yet here we are.
Still am, by the way. Game suggestions welcome.
I think this young lady should pursue a career as a “droll female comedian.” She’s funny, whether she knows it or not.
I lost a lot of faith in that show when they softened his character up, and that of the head administrator. I often wonder if the writers/producers were told to do that or if they just felt that they were running out of ideas. That show was great but to me it was the hardness of those two characters that really sold the humor. And the message. I see Braff and Faison doing commercials together again.
They all want to be Teletubbies! On of the most vile programs ever shown on television.
I just discovered a TV show from 2016 called Stan Against Evil with him in it. It’s worth a look but not watchable twice.
“I didn’t ask to be born”. I guess that’s why state-assisted suicide is now provided for free!