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In my previous post I offered the (hardly original) argument that the Western Empire is in decline and this explains much of the cultish behaviour and vacuous nonsense spouting from the mouths of our elites, which is in turn parroted by those that either want to be seen to be elite as well, or simply believe that what the elites tell them is right and good without their critical mind interjecting.
We can see that our world is rapidly separating from a more concrete reality into a bizarre netherworld of online screaming matches amongst cultish movements (Covidism, Social Justicism, Climatism, Scientism, Ardernism) that like all religions rely on blind belief and largely unquestioning conformity. Our Western World is becoming unhinged and as the amount of information available massively increases, the responses to it become massively childish.
Consider a Prime Minister who tells us she is our single source of truth, and then a prominent media enterprise (The Spinoff) “fact checking” the obvious statement and telling you it’s fine to say that because the date:
The massive expansion of grey areas that this truth multiverse paints, allows for the manipulation of that area by large scale corporate interests, who are not interested in the movement but rather interested in gaming another pointless metric (in this case ESG: Environment, Social, Justice) to encourage “moral” investors to purchase their shares.
Consider ASB bank’s response to the hateful idea that women might simply be permitted to speak on who can enter their spaces:
Well ASB, you staunch defender of the underdog, Wikipedia thinks the beginning of the 90’s is when the trans movement became something separate from the gay and lesbian rights movement which it had been previously tied to. So, my question to you ASB is when it was really tough for actual trans people, when there was no awareness of their plight, when they weren’t supported by the mainstream in any meaningful way, when they were being picked on and marginalised and no one gave a crap, when the support of a massive organisation like ASB would have made a hugely positive impact on their battle, where was your trans acceptance in 1992?
Nowhere. Because ASB is down in the irreality with everyone else. Taking care of your money and your mortgage is a side hustle to their yearning to show their social justice credentials and help the little people. It definitely isn’t just a way for them to game another meaningless metric and they aren’t really interested in anything so vulgar as banking or money.
Further, we see that a legacy media that has completely lost it’s way, going from the fourth estate holding power to account with the protection of free speech, to Pravda style railing against free speech “disinformation”, disinformation seemingly anything that conflicts with the interests of anyone who will give them money, be it government, corporation, or super rich “philanthropists”. Any of you could insert a thousand examples of that here and I won’t bother as the Spinoff already did it for me in their “fact check” above.
Government: We are your one source of truth.
Spinoff: Fact check reveals, the government is our one source of truth.
We see a growing, societal, obsession with safety.
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The safety and over validation of our kids has lead to an almost blithe authoritarian narcissism dressed as liberalness, openness, tolerance and love. Try and put yourself in the shoes of the person who is so special and amazing that no one can even experience it:
What fun!
In spite of all that safety and validation, our children are more anxious, less safe, more fatigued and more depressed. They spend more time on screens then many of us spend on our jobs (42 hours per week on average). We understand it is a problem yet seem indifferent to obvious causes. In a New Zealand geographic article devoted to teens, there are repeated comments from teens on the hugely negative impact to them of lockdowns. This is something I have witnessed in my own teens. Despite this, nowhere in the article does the author question whether the costs to our children of the covid response were worth the benefits (whatever those supposed benefits were). This is something New Zealand society stubbornly refuses to do; an actual cost benefit analysis of the covid over reaction.
The populations of Western societies are less resilient, less tough, less strong, more risk adverse, less fit, less outdoors and on top of that the children of the West are busy learning largely pointless life hacks, are anxious and unhappy, addicted to devices and are further and further severing their links with the physical world.
And although these kids and young adults (on average) are less prepared for an unforgiving world than perhaps ever in Western history, society raises them, seemingly at random, to savant like status. As if it is somehow logical or helpful to take lessons from angry autistic children, who haven’t finished high school science, yet tell us the science is “crystal clear”, like Greta Thurnberg, or that we should be convinced of the huge effectiveness of masks by “random Czech young person in beret”:
Our society has become a confusing mess of conflicting messages, untethered from reality and from each other. Where symbolism trumps reality. And the “smart” people are making it worse.
And this was hyper present in the Let Women Speak debacle in Albert Part.
In this post I want to focus on the rank and file of this Extremist Trans movement. I don’t think these people are evil, Nazi, cisphobes. I think, in terms of their morals they are average people who have been taken advantage of and manipulated into believing in false Gods. They are in a cult and like all people in a cult they don’t realise it, and they think everyone is against them. I think if I met them I’d probably have far more in common with them then I don’t. It is important to remember that whenever someone is trying to promote division - most people are more or less the same and you will likely have much more in common with them than not.
But they are broken in many ways. And afraid. And they want their fear to be our fear.
They are afraid for some legitimate reasons like previous trauma. Also because our society spent the last three years scaring the shit out of everyone and doesn’t seem to want to let up with that. The terror emergency morphed to the financial emergency morphed to the Trump emergency morphed to the covid emergency, morphed to the social justice emergency morphed to the climate emergency leaving many people in a constant state of agitation. Their fear is being fanned by cheerleaders of all this lunacy whether those cheerleaders be the government, experts, activist leaders, corporations or the media because ultimately fearful people are more controllable people.
An easy place to look at the specific is Twitter. There we can find something like the user below whom I stumbled across at random. I know nothing about this person aside from what was in her feed, and simply picked her as an example based on her commenting on the Albert Park fiasco. I have bias, but I do think this is reasonably representative of this movement and in any case, these are at least her words, in her context.
Firstly, one wonders how you get to the point where clear violence is peaceful, where a protest with signs saying “suck my dick” and “get off our land cunt” and where an elderly women had her jaw broken, among other violent and intimidatory acts towards women can be described as “non-violent and loving”:
Slightly different view from another person at the protests (link here)
I attended two anti-lockdown protests and an anti vaccine mandate protest. There was no violence at all. No one barked in anyone’s face, got their jaw broken, or thre anything. The policing was active and very present but largely good natured.
This same person who attended the most peaceful violent protest ever, has also had covid twice and has already had a booster dose and is upset she can’t get another booster, because she already has the disease (for the second time) that the first three jabs didn’t protect her from. Yes it is confusing:
She does seem a bit broken and the Extremist Trans cult and the Covidian cult, they seem to attract broken people. Or use them.
Fearful and confused (and recently changing her profile picture) she believes others should be forced to do things because of her fear, including children who are at virtually no risk of covid and certainly no risk to her. This is why authoritarians seed fear, because the fearful will support anything being done to anyone else to “protect” "them:
Her bio is an homage to cults. In less then two lines, it not only fragmented and dissonant it is also logically incoherent and not based in any factual Universe most of us agree on.
She is an example of the confusion we see everywhere now. A symbol of symbology.
We can see the cult symbology of expressing one's pronouns. The cult symbol on her cap. An impressive display of symbology with both symbology on the mask and the mask symbol itself. Symbols on Symbols. And statements that are nonsensical.
Protecting Oceans? She seems, unaware of the billions of plastic masks that are estimated to be now polluting it. And for all that pollution it’s unlikely they had any impact on covid at all.
Sign language, taught to everyone in Primary school? I am uncertain of the cost of teaching all primary children sign language. There are however, around 4600 deaf people who use sign to communicate in New Zealand (0.092% of the population). This means that if we assumed all deaf people using sign, are distributed equally across New Zealand you will have a roughly 1 in 1087 chance of meeting one. And if you did meet one you might say a few words in sign and then go about your business until six years later when you next might use sign, if you still remember it at all. While it may have some benefit in teaching kids an actual physical skill, we could just as easily do that with gymnastics, or a martial art. The benefit for all primary kids learning sign, while not zero is very close to it.
I have no problem with deaf people or people learning sign. But compare that minority to the 182 000 Samoan minority living in New Zealand. They represent 3.64% of the population (nearly 40 times more than users of sign) and it would be pretty hard to never meet one, especially living in Auckland. I would propose that it would be many times more practical for primary kids to learn Samoan in school given that you could also travel to Samoa and speak Samoan there and the Samoan language is part of the Polynesian language family, so learning Samoan might even help you understand Maori a bit better, which is very useful in New Zealand. Moreover, you could not go to a different country and speak to a deaf person there using New Zealand sign because, weirdly, every sign language is different and a person who speaks New Zealand sign would struggle to communicate with a person who speaks British sign as they are only 62% similar. That may sound a lot but as a comparison English and German are 60% similar.
Perhaps she knows a deaf person or is a deaf person herself. Or perhaps it’s something to do with this strange ritual that we observed at the start of covid:
None of these announcements were subtitled in Maori, Samoan, Chinese or any other language. Yet we had a person translating to sign language, for 0.092% of the population. Benefit? Close to zero. Cost? Who knows?
It seems to me somewhat ironic that a construct politician like Ardern, would introduce a symbolic official language that is meaningless to 99.9% of people, just in time for a pandemic that itself largely occurred in the symbolic world of epidemiological modelling, pseudoscientific “studies” and legacy news made up hysteria, and that an everyday person inculcated into various modern cults would pick up on that to be such an important thing that every child should be compelled to learn it.
Does this person imagine a coming world of pointless masks washing up on the beaches and dodgy vaccines every three months and lockdowns and pronouns and women with dicks all signing to each other in a glorious Utopian future?
Don’t worry though a person with a pointless job is all over it. Despite being more recognised and “accepted”, sign language is being used less and less by actual deaf people. Yet we should promote it more and more, perhaps even make it compulsory in school:
Showing support for teaching sign in schools feels like a competition to see who can support the most obscure minority, in the most pointless way and at not inconsiderable cost to society. A victimhood race to the bottom. What learning would we sacrifice so all primary kids could learn to sign?
We can see similar things in the specific from news reports. Setting aside that the media were utterly uncritical and simply went along with lazy, completely unsubstantiated Posy Parker = anti-trans nonsense they did help us understand some things.
The following observations refer to a News Hub video report. I could not embed the video but it is here and encompasses many of the issues surrounding this ignominious day.
It starts, as so much of New Zealand mainstream media starts (and often middles and ends) with misinformation, describing Posy Parker as “anti-trans” simply because anything in disagreement with the teachings of the extremist trans cult is automatically anti-trans.
At 52 seconds we can see an anti-trans grey haired Nazi commit hate speech genocide against trans people by wickedly stating:
I want my darling granddaughters to be able to get changed without men around, like I could when I was a girl.
An elderly Grandmother, gushing over her darling little granddaughters and wanting to speak to whether men should be allowed to get changed with them or not. Have these fascist Grandmothers no shame?
Meanwhile the most peaceful protest about love ever, offers an overweight man in a medical looking mask to “dance” in the background and multiple loving protestors to bark “go home” in her face with peace and love.
One of the peaceful, loving, free speech supporting people barking “go home” at the fascist old lady from the left of the shot, also appears to have a peaceful and loving pentagram over her pointless mask symbol. Also, odd that she is barking “go home” at an elderly women who may well be closer to home then she is.
At 1.21 the presenter states:
they have already had, what look like projectiles thrown at them
I hate to be a pedant (I don’t really) but something that is projected somewhere is a projectile. It is a general term. Something can “look like a water bottle” or “look like an apple core” and those somethings can be projectiles especially if you can’t make out what they are. Something does not look like a projectile it either is a projectile or it could be used as a projectile otherwise it’s just something sitting around in a pre-projectile state. But “newsman” knows how newsmen are meant to sound. They say things like “what looks like” or “what can only be described as” so he speaks how he thinks a newsman is meant to speak, while not seeming to understand the words.
At 1.52 peaceful and loving Pentagram wearing, barking women is asked why she is at the protest:
Because I’m a good person
Meanwhile overweight masked guy, continues his bizarre dancing ritual in the background.
At 1.59 we have another person asked why she is attending the protest
I am here to protect the rights of my trans brothers and sisters from people like this
She does have a point. People who actually have gender dysphoria should be protected from the Extremist Trans activist insanity that is doing nothing to improve their lives and may well be doing damage to the massively improved place in society they have battled for.
However what is noteworthy is not the quality (or lack thereof) of her words. It is the way she delivers them. Stilted and drone like, she sounds as if she is carefully repeating something she has memorised or slogans that she has had repeated to her in person or on social media again and again and again. She is pale and can’t put her phone away. Through her overwhelming commitment to the cause she clearly spent many, many minutes crafting a sign and thinking of a marvellous turn of phrase to write on it. She also refers to the women who wish to speak as fascists. Which is interesting when you consider that a big part of fascism is bullying, bribing and generally cajoling corporate interests into the fascist system. One can argue that there are elements of fascism in corporatism. You do not get much more corporate than a large bank. Posie Parker seems to have roughly zero support from any business small or large. The let women speak flag (if they even have one) is not displayed on the social media pages of multi billion dollar business entities. We cannot say the same about the Extremist Trans movement. So it would seem at least possible that she is actually supporting the fascists rather than resisting them.
The camera seems to like “good persons” and at 2.11 we can see our “good person” carefully watching a obviously racist, fascist, anti-trans bigot in case he decides to commit genocide against trans people. You can see the peace and love in her eyes and posture. I’m not sure what picture comes to your mind when you think “good person”. I imagine that it is not a very angry looking overweight tattooed person in a pointless mask with a Pentagram on one side of it and her arms crossed in an aggressive posture.
What can we say about these individual Trans Extremists?
They are logically incoherent. Their fear is far out of proportion to the actual danger they might experience. They believe everyone is against them. They are highly attuned to symbology. They are big on forcing people to do things that they somehow know are “right”. They generally look unhealthy (although that is a problem with Western society generally). They are rude and obnoxious. They have a propensity for cults, not content with one they belong to multiple. It’s almost as if they are desperately searching for anything to plug in a God shaped hole.
Finally it’s worth making an observation at the group level.
One thing that seems to unite this group is that they don’t seem content to be part of a single cult like the Extreme Trans activist cult. They also seem fond of the various covidian cults, like masking.
In the photo below I can see 28 faces to the degree I can see whether they are wearing a mask or not. 13 (46%) of those faces have masks on. There is no evidence that covid transmits outside. And even if it did as the Cochrane review shows masks have no measurable effect on covid transmission or indeed the transmission of any respiratory diseases. At the time of the protest there was very little covid around. So as an epidemiological intervention this is cost without benefit. Of course if you want to show you care about Granny, or vulnerable people (just not poor kids, screw them) then a medical looking mask is a perfect.
Why do something that is all cost and no benefit? Because it is a symbol. That’s why you can wear it on your chin. You do not wear a mask because it protects you, or anyone else because there is no evidence they do, even in your own personal experience (our Twitter example above seems very big on masks yet has had covid twice). You wear a mask because you believe they protect. You wear a mask to show you care. You wear a mask to show you are on the right team. You wear a mask to show you are a “good person”. And you do all this while the politicians you seem to respect and who wanted to make mask wearing mandatory don’t bother wearing one themselves:
What to make of all this?
Firstly there is no point arguing facts with a cult. We are not going to get a rational debate, how could we? Almost to the person, these people fail to understand basic concepts of human biology, civil rights, physical health or science . Their arguments, when they exist outside screaming meaningless phrases that most people already readily accept, barely stand up to the slightest interrogation. You are not going to change any of these minds using data, logic or even common sense because the Extremist Trans cult already ignores all of these things. They have no idea what Posie Parker is representing, they have just been told what she is by others and told what to do about it. They are soldiers of a sort, easily malleable, unquestioning and just following orders.
They are also violent, authoritarian and are happy for people to be forced to follow their various beliefs. They also have large corporations behind them as well as much of the elite class from politicians, to intellectuals, to the media.
Perhaps this is wishful thinking on my behalf but I believe the vast majority of New Zealanders, while fine with trans people, are not fine with the Trans Extremist cult. And while that may have given me hope pre-covid it is clear that New Zealanders are quite happy to go along with all sorts of stupid things as long as they can more or less go back to doing whatever it was they were doing before.
The advice for dealing with members of cults is:
but that only seems to apply to family members.
So if you are family or friends with one of the Extreme Trans activists, time to step up and take one for the team.
And for the rest of us, we need to speak up. We’ve got no problem with trans people. Just the violent extremists screaming at Grandmothers. We need to make it clear we aren’t interested in their imaginary views of the world. Imagining you are a cat is fine for a child but a sign of mental disorder in an adult. We do not have to humour the mad ramblings of people with mental disorders. Of course, they are free to describe themselves as whatever they like, but we are equally free to ignore them. They can have their “lived reality” and we can have ours and we can all get along without one side having to bully the other into accepting what is in the end just a bit of childish silly buggers.
Next time we’ll take a look at the leaders of this movement. You can be sure I will have less sympathy for them.