Thursday, August 17, 2017

All Wrongthink All The Time

... is what progressives pursue these days. There's nothing of substance, it's all feelings and words and symbols.

If you step back and look at the progression, you find:
  • Christian bakers who believe in traditional marriage
  • Little Sisters of the Poor who believe in chastity
  • Southerners who flew the Dixie flag out of regional pride (not including the bona-fide racists)
  • Speakers like Charles Murray who perform legitimate research, but hold inappropriate views
  • PhD biologists (the chap who got fired from Google) who point out sexual dimorphism in humans
  • Statues
I woke up today, made my coffee and worked on some PHP code. None of the aforementioned had any effect on my life. Even a statue of Karl Marx in a nearby park, if it existed, wouldn't have made a difference. It all exists in theory, it's all conceptual.

This is why Trump, God help us, won the election.

Out in the real world, where most of us spend our time, we face drug epidemics, states going bankrupt, rising health insurance costs and children who can't find full-time employment because of ObamaCare regulations. You're not helping me or even living in my world when you chase Little Sisters of the Poor all the way to the Supreme Court to force them to pay for birth control insurance.

Others have opined that the left and right now speak completely different languages. I'd go farther and say we live on completely different planes of existence. The left has become ethereal, conceptual, theological. Worse still for them, and staying with the point I made yesterday, their theology doesn't jive with reality. I've had a day to think about it and I'm more convinced today than yesterday that we're watching the death of a religion. When confronted with contradictions or refutations, they simply scream, "SINNER!"  all the louder.

Since our sins are in our heads, you have to accept that they are clairvoyants and can read minds. It's entirely possible that Charles Murray is well-intentioned and simply goes where the data takes him. To me, it's even highly likely. However, when faced with a Charles Murray speech, the response is hysteria. They are convinced they know what he's thinking. They know he's a racist. He must be destroyed.

We're not being punished for what's in our heads, we're being punished for what's in theirs.

So no wrongthink, boys and girls. Keep your thoughts pure and your statements scrubbed free of aggressions, even the micro ones which are too small to be visible to the naked eye. That's the way we should all live. ALL OF US.

Here, Iranian morality police issue a warning or maybe a ticket or maybe a jail sentence against a woman who is improperly dressed.
In the US, we call these police, "ANTIFA."

5 comments:

Ohioan@Heart said...

Is it any wonder we have a huge segment of the population that live in an alternate reality? Just think about this report from three days ago: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-not-so-friendly-american-workplace/
So what's the take away? That work is hard? That work is unpleasant? Not for me. I know all that. The take away is that the researcher, fully inculcated ivory tower snowflake that she is, found out that: "Wow -- [work] is a pretty taxing place for many people," [she] said. "I was surprised by how pressured and hectic the workplace is."

That's the take away. That the folks teaching the kids at college in 'the right way to think', don't have a clue as to the reality of most Americans. The same applies to all those lefties that were so shocked when Trump beat one of their own. The sadest part is that they simply did not, and still do not, understand the life and struggles of the majority of America.

Mostly Nothing said...

Did you see Lebron speaking yesterday? He said the world needs love now. It's the only thing that is going to get us through these social issues. And the next sentence he says, that it was all caused by the "so called President in the White House".

K T Cat said...

The world needs love, just not love for the haters. The haters should get hate from the people who love. That's how you know they are the people of love - they hate the right people.

Ohioan@Heart said...

I heard someone on TV tonight saying "we must show our intolerance for intolerance". I laughed out loud. I feel completely confident that the speaker I'd no idea of the self-referential oxymoron she'd just uttered. If it wasn't so sad, it would really be funny.

ligneus said...

Hey KT, how about you run for Senate? They need a few real people in there.

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