I don't think of the gender critical campaign as being either right or left though it always surprises me that so many on the left vilify a campaign that is about women's rights, gay and lesbian rights and child safeguarding! Instead they prefer a campaign that, on analysis, is about ( privileged) men's rights!?
I look forward to Clive and you discussing this further I hope, Dennis
The reason Genderism talks like Marxism, and walks like Marxism, is that Marxism is also an esoteric philosophical movement. People get the relationship backwards. I have been learning quite a bit about this in my reading lately. Genderism shares a lot in common with past American esoteric faith movements, such as Transcendentalism, that came out of the same febrile intellectual atmosphere as Marx. Marx did not conquer the American mind, he found minds in America ready to receive him. When you think of it as a travelling tent revival and patent medicine show from the old midwest, it all clicks into place.
Phenomenal thread Dennis. You do good words... should probably be a lawyer or some kind of -ology with that skill! Seriously though... a beacon of rationality in seriously messed up times.
Twitter is still silencing Gay men! I've been gone since February 12th. How I miss reading your Tweets, but I refuse to delete my opinion that referring to children and "cis" and "trans" is crazy talk.
It is justly neither right nor left but the instrument in the hands of powerless exploitative people. The ideology is used to coerce, bully, subvert other people in this day and age. Ten years ago it would have been something else, perhaps justifyingly. In ten years 's time it will most likely have changed. But this exercise in power and gain co occurs with the perversion of safeguarding of vulnerable people far and wide in its reach, including when the institutions are involved in precisely the saguarding of vulnerable people.
Excellent parsing of the landscape and of the shakeouts and slides that got the the lay of the land into the shape it is today. --- Where there is no "right" nor "left" anymore. Where we're somewhere else entirely now: on familiar looking terrain, but in a strange, strange land.
Bang on that "the Left is not the Left" and that they gave up on class politics in favour of identity politics, leading to what we have now.
I don't think of the gender critical campaign as being either right or left though it always surprises me that so many on the left vilify a campaign that is about women's rights, gay and lesbian rights and child safeguarding! Instead they prefer a campaign that, on analysis, is about ( privileged) men's rights!?
I look forward to Clive and you discussing this further I hope, Dennis
Keep up the great work
Dusty
The reason Genderism talks like Marxism, and walks like Marxism, is that Marxism is also an esoteric philosophical movement. People get the relationship backwards. I have been learning quite a bit about this in my reading lately. Genderism shares a lot in common with past American esoteric faith movements, such as Transcendentalism, that came out of the same febrile intellectual atmosphere as Marx. Marx did not conquer the American mind, he found minds in America ready to receive him. When you think of it as a travelling tent revival and patent medicine show from the old midwest, it all clicks into place.
Phenomenal thread Dennis. You do good words... should probably be a lawyer or some kind of -ology with that skill! Seriously though... a beacon of rationality in seriously messed up times.
On a slight tangent check out Days of Boyhood attending a 'Sophie' Labelle event. Brilliant: https://youtu.be/YFpgl6xzKb4
Dusty
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I'll pass that on to Chad ;)
Twitter is still silencing Gay men! I've been gone since February 12th. How I miss reading your Tweets, but I refuse to delete my opinion that referring to children and "cis" and "trans" is crazy talk.
But isn’t it the left that is indoctrinating the kids of gender ideology in schools and puritanical about policing speech?
It is justly neither right nor left but the instrument in the hands of powerless exploitative people. The ideology is used to coerce, bully, subvert other people in this day and age. Ten years ago it would have been something else, perhaps justifyingly. In ten years 's time it will most likely have changed. But this exercise in power and gain co occurs with the perversion of safeguarding of vulnerable people far and wide in its reach, including when the institutions are involved in precisely the saguarding of vulnerable people.
Excellent parsing of the landscape and of the shakeouts and slides that got the the lay of the land into the shape it is today. --- Where there is no "right" nor "left" anymore. Where we're somewhere else entirely now: on familiar looking terrain, but in a strange, strange land.
Bullseye.