Friday Ephemera (711)
Ladies, do you recycle yours? || Well, I laughed. || The Electric Egg, 1942. || Juggling, from above. || “I’ve been bouncing for fifteen years.” || “Liturgical Barbie with matching vestments.” || Luckily, his balls took the brunt of it. || Bending water. || You have to warm it up first. (NSFW) || Feeding time. || Tall Korean visits Netherlands. || Incoming. || Quite. || A question of eye-hand coordination. || It gives her chills. || This is Sparta. || Today’s word is practised. || Possibly not ideal for pornography enthusiasts. || The progressive retail experience, parts 533, 534, 535, and 536. || Somewhat impractical football pitch. || Intrepid adventurers. || An erotic vision. || Proof, were it needed, that you have a low and filthy mind. || And finally, today’s other words are engine failure.
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Didn’t Roddenberry try it? You know, with that one series?
There’s that edge in his voice, that narcissistic insistence that things will go MY WAY or else, that tone that says, “this time I’m asking nicely; next time I’ll make sure you regret it.”
They always give themselves away, don’t they?
Or as pointed out here:
https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/you-dont-need-to-document-everything
That.
It does seem to be a pretty good example of The Unreliable Narrator. And so, we get a man dressed as a woman invoking “dignity and respect,” while peevishly insulting everyone in the audience by insisting that they should aspire to similar dishonesty – that they should abandon probity, disregard the evidence of their own eyes, and become cartoonish and absurd. Lest they be denounced as bad people.
It’s an attempt at psychological bullying. A kind of abuse.
See also, those who enable such farcical scenes and who seek out new players for The Pronoun Game. And so, a familiar question. If they’ll lie about that, something so obviously untrue, what else would they lie about?
Again, it has the air of a civilisational shit test.
That’s precisely what it is.
What I’m trying to understand is how they managed to impose such severe consequences for not “passing” the test in so many places, at nearly the same time. They came in with shock and awe somehow, and put so many heads on pikes that les autres were duly and swiftly encouragé.
I just watched this year-old Triggernometry video about a woman (Rose) who had transitioned her son, but then walked it back. They observed that “let the child lead” had become the One Standard, and that only a horrible person would do otherwise.
Which, that’s exactly the formula they followed during the Satanic Abuse panic and also the recovered memory panic, where there were sacred victims whose word was not to be questioned lest you be complicit in sexual abuse. That panic was started and supercharged by therapists, too, none of whom have suffered any consequences.
“They’re all activists,” Rose observed.
I’m coming to detest self-styled activists. The rank narcissism of thinking that your pet cause entitles you to impose your will on the world, not through persuasion but by force and intimidation. That you can lie and put your thumb on any scale and ignore the law and social norms because your cause is So Very Just.
I remember when fanaticism was considered a bad thing. I think we’re going to have to learn the hard way that it actually is.
I’ll throw together a post on this later today. But right now, I’ve got to head out and forage for provisions.
[ Writes shopping list. ]
I’ve got to head out and forage for provisions.
And, after wandering about over hill and dale, he returns with a few mushrooms, a turnip and a rather plump sheep.
I’m guessing you do understand and this is more rhetorical. It has been quite painful watching it happen. From my teenage years, as much as I tried to deny much of what I was seeing, as I lied to myself in order to fit in, my only hope was that when things eventually did go sideways I would already be dead. Celebrity culture had much to do with it. Though I also blame religion for its failure to adapt to new scientific knowledge. Combine that with the everyone-must-go-to-college hysteria that pulled society apart in many ways that are only now just beginning to be considered and the tsunami of fiction pushing false Narratives at every turn and you have brainwashing on a scale that previous totalitarian societies only dreamed of. The madness is so encompassing it’s like the cliche about fish being unaware of the water they are swimming in.
It’s been said that psychotherapy attracts neurotics and others with psychological problems. And what those therapists did seems more a result of evil traits than mere neurosis–Cluster B, Dark Triad, etc. But I’ve never seen anything but anecdotal reports on the likely frequency of occurrence in the “helping professions”.
And what about credulousness and an inclination to embrace evidence-free faddish ideas such as horoscopes, auras, healing crystals, past lives, etc? I’ve met very few therapists but some were like that and even said they used it in their therapy.
Yes, but that series was semi-successful. And its failures were not due to an attempt to shoe-horn Hornblower unchanged into a 24th Century spaceship.
Fresh eggs.
[ Returns from hunt, laden with booty. ]
There we go. Comments that-a-way.
The only three that I can, off-hand, recall reading were All Judgement Fled, The Escape Orbit, and The Dream Millennium. All were good.
I actually don’t. I’m wondering in earnest.
I’m aware of the societal decay that laid the groundwork, as well as the nonsense in the universities, but I’m asking specifically about the penalties. Did it start with Brandon Eich at Mozilla? That was gay rights, but maybe when trans hit the scene they had learned from it: punish dissent fast and often.
Seriously, when they dug into his donations and claimed to feel “unsafe” around him, despite him doing nothing bad, that was such a serious breach of the social contract on so many levels.
God help us all.
Ah. The penalties. They were bound to happen once sufficient demonization of those opposed had been achieved. Not sure when/what specific event it might have been but by then trying to stop it was too late an effort anyway. Like trying to stick a finger in a dike.