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In the pages of the Los Angeles Times, Jade Sasser, an associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside, informs us,
She then asks, somewhat bizarrely,
Bringing another person – specifically, a baby – into a society in which people don’t always agree on every subject is a new and terrifying scenario, apparently. One entirely unprecedented in all of human history.
In an attempt to make this opening question, and its implications, seem less peculiar and contrived, our fretful educator searches out other, likeminded beings:
The purpose of this racial filtering remains a tad mysterious, beyond a modish obligation to bolt race onto every conceivable subject, ideally with implications of victimhood. The nearest we get to an explanation in the article is the claim that “climate emotions like anxiety, fear, and trauma” somehow weigh more heavily on the minds of “marginalised groups.” A purported phenomenon that will “become an increasingly important component of climate justice in the United States.”
Other categories of assumed downtroddenness are mentioned too:
Badges, so many badges. See how they catch the light.
Hold that thought as we dive into the wisdom of these brown and suffering souls:
“I think I may not have children although I do want them,” she notes. “Just because, with all of the things we see going on in the world, it seems unfair to bring someone into all of this against their will.”
Readers are welcome to suggest how one might bring someone into existence – a child, say – with their consent. And no, you can’t use a time machine.
Melanie adds,
Such sorrow. Such sweet, pretentious sorrow.
Clue.
Punchline incoming.
Whether the latter is a function of sexual dysmorphia and compulsive pronoun stipulation, or of art school, I leave to the reader.
For some reason, the words natural selection come to mind.
Not having a dad is indeed regrettable. And so, naturally, Elena makes a point of rejecting any potential fathers:
As part of her reasoning for shunning motherhood, and by extension, shunning a stable relationship, Elena also invokes a dread of “really weird weather patterns,” should any arise. Yes, I know. The word reasoning is creaking under the load.
Other interviewees envision a future in which they are free to focus on themselves. Which may strike readers as a mixed blessing.
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Duh. Don’t you understand? That’s what MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) is for … so people can, um, deny consent to being born!
On the bright side, do we really want their genes in circulation?
Indeed, no forced sterilization required with this crowd. Odd how progressives seem to always return to eugenics.
I recall when I was in university there was a phenomenon known as LUG, Lesbian Until Graduation. Presumably to satisfy the need for sex and intimacy without risk of pregnancy and without unpleasant interactions with predatory males. (How else to characterize sex with someone you will never see again after end of term or after graduation?) The expression was used without reprobation, only light amusement.
Harvested by short-tempered Yanomami and roasted by fierce Scythians?
“climate emotions like anxiety, fear, and trauma” somehow weigh more heavily on the minds of
“marginalised groups.”[people who suffer with anxiety, fear and trauma.]There. Fixed it.
The cult of college, and its various tributaries and offshoots, has done more to destroy our society than the actual commie crap it was being used for to push. Even those who did not fall for the brainwashing had their lives corrupted in innumerable ways.
[ Weighs merits of Intense Amazonian versus Hot Lava Java. ]
Hot Lava Java – Software development book name.
Sooner or later someone will market a cheap blend called Krakatoa East of Java.
Mocha Boom?
[ Checks tomorrow’s links one last time, hits schedule. ]
[ Wipes brow with oily rag. ]
Yeah, well… Here’s the common issue, here:
People educated far past the level of their actual functional intelligence.
Which is a factor stemming from the over-success of our civilization, in that these types aren’t busy making actual lives for themselves through hard work out on the coalfaces of the world. Years ago, this set of idjits would have had to literally “root, hog, or die…”, and they’d have never had the time or inclination for all of this self-destructive navel-gazing.
I think that the use of “IQ” in everything these days has had actual identifiable damaging effect on everything, mainly due to the misidentification of “what the hell is intelligence, anyway” inherent to the whole concept.
IQ testing and all the rest of the academic-industrial complex relies on the early identification and rewarding of an abstract form of “intelligence” that only addresses a narrow section of what actually constitutes “intelligence” when the average person thinks of it. It decouples that abstract thinking from performance and effect, as well: Provided you “do well on the test”, you literally can get away with murderous incompetence based on your credentials. Nobody is going to look at the results; they’re going to be so dazzled by your Ivy League diploma and voluminous CV that they’ll never notice disaster has ensued everywhere you were put in charge of something.
Here’s a truism for you: If the results of putting the “high IQ” types in charge of things are widespread disaster, as we see all around us today, then what we’re looking at with “IQ” probably ain’t really all that smart. If it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid; likewise, if it is “smart” and doesn’t work, then it ain’t actually, y’know… Smart.
Modern life has created too great a divide between “result” and “theory”. The theoreticians are running the world, and they pay not the slightest head to whether or not their theories prove out in practical effect and result. They’re all in love with their ideas, the things that live in their heads, and they won’t look at the real world around them to see if those things are actually workable there. They cannot or will not actually observe things as they are; the ideas in their heads warp everything.
I think Western civilization really started going off the rails back around the 1890s, when the academics started weaseling their way into running things. Woodrow Wilson was a disaster, and he wasn’t the only one of his ilk. What you see around you, today? That’s what they wrought. Most of the progress we’ve made was accomplished by the pragmatics among us, and was actually impeded by all the daffy dreamers of the academic theoretical world. Witness what Musk is dealing with in the bureaucracy; they’d rather keep hounding SpaceX into bankruptcy than allow him to succeed at getting humanity off this planet.
‘Educated’ implies the imparting of knowledge and that isn’t what’s happening. They’re being instructed on what attitudes to hold.
This might offer a partial explanation.
A favorite aphorism:
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
<i>American society feels more socially and politically polarised than ever.
Is it right to bring another person into that?</i>
Absolutely not!
We must halt immigration immediately.
@aelfheld…
Perhaps “credentialed” would be a better construction?
In any event, what is going on here is that they’re taking people who actually aren’t all that “functionally intelligent” and then weaponizing them with credentials and ideology such that they mimic the intelligentsia of past times, enabling them to take over and dominate much of our public sphere as supposed “intellectuals”. Reality? Most of them can’t even pass the high school matriculation exams of the 1890s, let alone the ones that conferred college-level diplomas during that era.
My maternal grandmother was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar in her college days during the late 1910s and early 20s. I’ve had my hands on her high school transcript, from a “good” high school in Portland, Oregon; the syllabus she had to get high marks on would probably confound many university students today. There is no doubt in my mind that we have literally gotten dumber, mostly at the behest of the idjit class running the various “education” mills during the intervening years.
What’s ironic as all hell is that I’ve seen first-person accounts written by veterans of both WWI and WWII, men who had limited educations, and those men produced far more lucid and understandable prose, with far wider vocabularies, than many of the officers I served under while I was in the Army could manage with extensive preparation. What we’ve lost is astounding and depressing.
Two birds . . .
I’m old enough to remember when remedial education courses became a staple at colleges and universities.
Indoctrinated.
An inevitable consequence of “affirmative action” policies and of the foolish idea that everyone should go to college.
Most jobs can be done by someone with a solid high school education.
[ Slides bowl of chili-flavored toenail clippings back to David. ]