How to use intellectual ju-jitsu to turn around all those obnoxious wokeisms. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
If a man has a right to be treated as a woman simply by “identifying” as one then I see no reason why I haven’t got a right to “identify” as old enough to collect Socialist Insecurity. After all, if a man can steal scholarships and awards in competitive sports from women, then surely it is at least as much my right to claw back some of the money stolen from me by “identifying” as 62 – the minimum age one must be in order to claw some of it back.
I worry there might not be any Socialist Insecurity left for me to collect when I am 62, which is still a ways away for me.
But why should it be?
I often feel old.
Isn’t that essentially the same thing as feeling one is in fact the opposite sex? The fact that one isn’t does not seem to matter – at least, to those insisting that one’s sex is a matter of how one decides to “identify.”
Mark that.
The Enlightenment represented the “Age of Reason.” The results speak (scream!) loudly for themselves!
We have since entered what I term “a flight from reason.” Evading reality through “self-identification” represents but the latest (perhaps the most blatant!) failure to “identify” reality.
As a child begins to experience budding emotions, depending on his/her environment and interpretation of it, he/she may begin to experience apprehension and fears over aspects of it. If this fear is not understood and properly dealt with, he/she will begin to consciously alter their behavior to avoid such fear(s).
Unresolved, should this fear reach a level where the individual begins to consciously take steps to alter their value, increasingly going to more and more “bizarre” lengths to avoid such fear, the age of reason has taught that this behavior is reasibed ti be that of a neurotic.
Should this neurosis reach the point where the individual reaches the point where they begin to fashion an alternative “reality” – in which they profess to believe and act in accordance with, the age of reason has taught us that they have become psychotic. Psychosis, defined by reason, as a destructive mental illness.
As our current flight from reason gathers speed and altitude, it has now reached the point where the psychotic politically demands that those of us not suffering their afflictions, join with them in their psychotic fantasies.
Make no mistake, this is NOT a political issue! It is an epistemological one. It is nothing less than a disregard for Aristotle’s law of identity. Specifically, that a thing cannot be itself and something else at the same time or in the same respect. What Ayn Rand succinctly stated by her “A is A!”
The concept of “self-Identification” trumping reality is simply a denial of reality. It produces the sad spectacle that any such denial of reality produces. A human being suffering unimaginable misery, ultimately demanding that you affirm their denial.
Dave
Dave
I agree with you and will have much more to say about it in a future article.