The generation coming up is too woke and too fragile to even conduct a debate. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
it is a matter of no small wonder to me the extent to which the essential ideological swerve of the modern day wokester marxist industrial complex (and make no mistake, this has morphed into a full blown industry) has become projection of the wokelords’ own self-hatred and abject failure upon any who would dare gainsay them.
this is just astonishing. (for those of strong stomach, you can watch the video HERE)
this sort of thing used to be a joke, quite literally. this is a cartoon from former brown daily herald cartoonist jeff shesol’s hilarious series called “thatch” (available on amazon and worth owning). it may well have been more prescient than “idiocracy.”
this is from 1991.
you can see the obvious parallel. “yeah, we didn’t do the work, but we expect to win cuz, politics. this is not debate. it’s ideological struggle session.”
To just say “wow,’ is entirely inadequate! What follow is a portion of my second article I have published on Substack, and its relevance is obvious.
The video in the article by El Gato represents but further demonstrations of the on-going affronts to Reason itself. Reason offers the reasoning and explanation as to why this is the case.
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 actual values, increasingly going to more and more tragic lengths to avoid such fear(s), the age of reason had previously taught that this represents the behavior of a neurotic.
Should this neurosis continue to fester whereby the individual reaches the point that they begin to fashion an alternative “reality” – one with which they profess to “identify,” and with which they begin to act in accordance, the age of reason had taught that they have become psychotic. This condition of psychosis, defined by reason, being a potentially destructive mental illness.
As our current flight from reason continues to gather speed and altitude, this latest example indicates our flight has now reached momentum where the psychotic feels it is appropriate to make demands of those not supportive of their affliction. They demand that others join with them in altering their reality as well, one which comports with the psychotic’s fantasies/delusions.
This concept of “self-identification,” taking precedence over reality, is simply a denial of reality. It produces the sad spectacle that any such denial of reality produces. A human being suffering potentially unimaginable psychological torment and misery, wherein they have reached a point whereby they must demand that the rest of us affirm/confirm their denial! Demands “proudly” proclaimed because of what has become an accepted “fracture” in the philosophical “wing” of our previously-soaring aircraft of Reason. A fracture now augmenting the psychological damage it produces with potential socially-destructive political damage.
Make no mistake, this is not a political issue! It is an epistemological one. It is nothing less than a disregard for Aristotle’s discovery of Reason and his subsequent laws of logic – specifically his law of identity. The axiom that a thing cannot be itself and something else at the same time or in the same respect. What Aquinas was to remind and reacquaint the world, and what Ayn Rand succinctly stated as “A is A!”
Though politics has begun to impose on all of us the illogical, if one truly wishes to understand and help these individuals, and not simply ignore their sad pathology, then do so without condemnation. Just don’t join them in their fantasies. It only adds to their affliction, while you wait in line to purchase your ticket to board this doomed “return” flight. A return flight that inevitably leads to the inhumanity so characterized by most of recorded history!
A flight that I fervently hope will soon become grounded! Grounded by a renewal of the soaring flight of Reason.