I’m interested in this: “Dramatic questions such as ‘who is abnormal here, me or this world of people who feel and think differently?’ are answered in the world’s disfavor.”
I see your point completely and agree-- and yet we few who are speaking out against the bizarre excesses of gender ideology are surely doing the same thing, in the view of people who support the man with the giant prosthetic breasts?
What do we make of that?
I was surprised to read about the pedophile in the 1950s who retained his job. I had the sense that kids were protected better back then. Interesting.
I wrote to the school board, suggesting that this wasn’t a gender or DEI issue but rather a professionalism issue, since giant prosthetic breasts have never been appropriate workwear for anyone of any sex or “gender.” But I just received back the boilerplate message that they support people’s rights (the unspoken implication “unlike ogres such as you”).
I'm with you and Tucker Carlson on this. This shop teacher in Ontario is acting out sexual fantasies. He is tittilated by what he is doing, sexually. School leadership is supporting the pathological.
This is an excellent piece on the dynamics at play and I am grateful for it. I am thankfully not in a position to have to deal with this sort of madness day to day, but it is fascinating when I encounter it. The few times I have met transgender types I think, the only person mistaking you for a woman is you. I've never met a woman trying to be a man.
Normally I would be inclined to say, to each his own. But then they started taking over women' sports, and then they went all in on mutilating and castrating children, and that is leaning into the demonic.
Harrison, Dr Iain McGilchrist is starting to speak out and raise the alarm much more vociferously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=686heq5QFPk - I would love to see a post from you pondering how Iain's work fits into the topic of ponerology.
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🗨 What is going on?
Theodore Dalrymple helpfully offers an endpoint the goings-on are going to. Today on Taki’s ↓
💬 It can’t be long before sexual relations with a person of differing political outlook come to be regarded as a sexual perversion, indeed as the *only* sexual perversion, all others being but a matter of taste.
Theophilus Chilton elaborates in generalising fashion ↓
💬 everything about Blue tribe’s culture and politics [...is] due to the desire to throw off all restraints, including that of self-control
It’s almost like they’re stuck with the first unadorned-A step in ABA’ minuet. Forever, which is plenty long time especially toward the end.
The bad cat casts some welcome light on believable mechanism how things spin out of control. True believers (~zealots?) play a crucial role. Spellbinders in Łobaczewski’s parlance, those drafted in the first round? 🤔
PS Your fruitful efforts on effrontery’s corporeal stationery naming front have been noted and duly appreciated 👌
Whole shit load of people have lost there minds to think anything with this teacher or what kids are been taught in elementary is proper Something has caused people to be blind and pathetic to what’s going on in society
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I’m writing this before having finished reading the essay. Where I come from there was a town next door, Clovis, California. Their motto was “Clovis, a way of life.” Their schools were notorious for dress codes and for the collar length hair that was enforced with boys. Fresno was not so strict. I wore my hair long starting around 4th grade. Long after I was out of school I remember various dress code subjects coming up in news. Brightly dyed hair became a no no (I think even in Fresno) as it was considered distracting to the learning environment. Other forms of appearance and dress would also fit into this. Near my last decade or so in Fresno the news was about some Clovis West students, males wearing dresses to school. I assume they thought they were doing something brave, making some kind of worthwhile stand. Ha ha, I think if I were doing life over I would have gotten a haircut. Clovis a way of life now feels like the rubble around one’s feet after the world has ended (exaggeration but…). The Kinks told us it’s a mixed up, muddled up shook up world (or something like that) and that was okay but now… now it’s a fucked up, pre-apocalyptic shit show and it has me worried. God save us. Okay, back to the essay. Finished. Man, hope that dude is playing the long game… mixed up, muddled up… mutter, mutter under my breath.
Thanks Harrison for this focus on state sanctioned and encouraged personality disorders and reminding me again to get back into Lobaczewski with our contemporary lens (or rather our current experience of political/cultural ponerology!)
So much more to say on this topic! One of the manifestations of a cancer that is collapsing the western world. Looking forward to more on this from you.
**FYI** Harrison, this didn't hit my inbox. I tried posting something new 90 mins ago and Substack's email servers didn't send it out. Test publish doesn't work either. I emailed support for information but nothing so far.
It's long been my suspicion that the trans explosion has run in lockstep with the steady insertion of of GMO's and EDC's into the food chain. Is it a coincidence that the Russians banned GMO's years ago and don't appear to have any tranny issues?
Another excellent and insightful post (I was also going to say "brave" - which it is - but this just speaks to how well the psychopaths are at cowing us). When was Political Ponerology first published? It seems awfully prophetic of todays world? So I am getting the picture... Evil is real; evil is the coercion and removal of people's freedoms; psychopaths are everywhere and gaming all our systems to gain power; the modus operandi of psychopaths is force others to conform to their mad patterns...?
Well of course you make a very good point. I wish, though, that it were as cut-and-dried as we would like it to be.
What we seem to be seeing is a gradual wearing down of society by persons who society would like to deal with but simply does not know how to, within the framework of, say, modern secular liberalism.
One indication of how odd this is, is that most people still agree on certain basic moral (and legal) principles, while many "pro Democracy" persons wish to raise dissenting voices to some level of authority over the majority. In a "democracy" does not the majority have the right to rule?
But more to the point, these widely held agreements are the basis for what might be called a "sane" game of life on Earth. They have resulted in periods of general happiness, even economic growth, on several occasions, and thus could be considered "workable."
To abandon these agreements because some individuals feel abused by them is to turn our backs on a workable system. It many not be a perfect system, but it has proven to be workable. And I think that should be the only test of it. There should be no ideological test for any human system beyond asking the question of how many can attain some degree of happiness by following it.
If Hubbard is correct about the psychopath being stuck in some past incident where he was so thoroughly attacked that he now harbors an intense fear of everyone around him, including even his "fellow" psychopaths, then we see how he could conclude that our workable system should be fought against. This would be a totally irrational conclusion based on unfounded fears, but of course the psychopath has no way to realize that and resolve it for himself.
That most of psychology still sees mental unwellness as a problem that must have somehow developed in this lifetime, or if not is "genetic" and therefore unsolvable, has become a major impediment to handling this situation. In fact, it has put many of them, willingly or not, on the side of those who want to "let it all hang out." If psychology cannot get through this and rise to a clearer awareness about this, it will be no help to the majority who wish Earth to remain sane, and may even become antagonistic to us, as many individual psychologists and psychiatrists already are.
But if we take the meaning of "psychology" seriously, then that is definitely where we will find the answer. While I can say that Hubbard has already found the answer, that does not totally remedy the situation, as he only went so far as to make it possible to operate an organization that could detect and remove psychopaths, not one that could handle them in the context of broader society.
If we are serious about saving the game of life on Earth (and many, even Hubbard, question the ultimate value of doing that) then we need to extend the reach of our secular humanism to include a total appreciation of what Lobaczewski and others have been writing about AND a workable handling for the most demented people of this planet. They are far from a majority, but they possess enough nervous mental energy to do great harm, or even end life here, and that only becomes more clear every day.
I’m interested in this: “Dramatic questions such as ‘who is abnormal here, me or this world of people who feel and think differently?’ are answered in the world’s disfavor.”
I see your point completely and agree-- and yet we few who are speaking out against the bizarre excesses of gender ideology are surely doing the same thing, in the view of people who support the man with the giant prosthetic breasts?
What do we make of that?
I was surprised to read about the pedophile in the 1950s who retained his job. I had the sense that kids were protected better back then. Interesting.
I wrote to the school board, suggesting that this wasn’t a gender or DEI issue but rather a professionalism issue, since giant prosthetic breasts have never been appropriate workwear for anyone of any sex or “gender.” But I just received back the boilerplate message that they support people’s rights (the unspoken implication “unlike ogres such as you”).
I'm with you and Tucker Carlson on this. This shop teacher in Ontario is acting out sexual fantasies. He is tittilated by what he is doing, sexually. School leadership is supporting the pathological.
This is an excellent piece on the dynamics at play and I am grateful for it. I am thankfully not in a position to have to deal with this sort of madness day to day, but it is fascinating when I encounter it. The few times I have met transgender types I think, the only person mistaking you for a woman is you. I've never met a woman trying to be a man.
Normally I would be inclined to say, to each his own. But then they started taking over women' sports, and then they went all in on mutilating and castrating children, and that is leaning into the demonic.
Thank you, thank you. It heartens me so much to see others get it, analyze it, and talk about it. You're among the rare set doing it, Harrison.
Harrison, Dr Iain McGilchrist is starting to speak out and raise the alarm much more vociferously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=686heq5QFPk - I would love to see a post from you pondering how Iain's work fits into the topic of ponerology.
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"As a troll, this would udderly epic."
Hahaha!
Great stuff, brother. Will respond in depth later.
🗨 What is going on?
Theodore Dalrymple helpfully offers an endpoint the goings-on are going to. Today on Taki’s ↓
💬 It can’t be long before sexual relations with a person of differing political outlook come to be regarded as a sexual perversion, indeed as the *only* sexual perversion, all others being but a matter of taste.
Theophilus Chilton elaborates in generalising fashion ↓
💬 everything about Blue tribe’s culture and politics [...is] due to the desire to throw off all restraints, including that of self-control
It’s almost like they’re stuck with the first unadorned-A step in ABA’ minuet. Forever, which is plenty long time especially toward the end.
The bad cat casts some welcome light on believable mechanism how things spin out of control. True believers (~zealots?) play a crucial role. Spellbinders in Łobaczewski’s parlance, those drafted in the first round? 🤔
PS Your fruitful efforts on effrontery’s corporeal stationery naming front have been noted and duly appreciated 👌
The world has become a giant funhouse. Those giant "girls" should never be allowed close to a circular saw.
Whole shit load of people have lost there minds to think anything with this teacher or what kids are been taught in elementary is proper Something has caused people to be blind and pathetic to what’s going on in society
I’m writing this before having finished reading the essay. Where I come from there was a town next door, Clovis, California. Their motto was “Clovis, a way of life.” Their schools were notorious for dress codes and for the collar length hair that was enforced with boys. Fresno was not so strict. I wore my hair long starting around 4th grade. Long after I was out of school I remember various dress code subjects coming up in news. Brightly dyed hair became a no no (I think even in Fresno) as it was considered distracting to the learning environment. Other forms of appearance and dress would also fit into this. Near my last decade or so in Fresno the news was about some Clovis West students, males wearing dresses to school. I assume they thought they were doing something brave, making some kind of worthwhile stand. Ha ha, I think if I were doing life over I would have gotten a haircut. Clovis a way of life now feels like the rubble around one’s feet after the world has ended (exaggeration but…). The Kinks told us it’s a mixed up, muddled up shook up world (or something like that) and that was okay but now… now it’s a fucked up, pre-apocalyptic shit show and it has me worried. God save us. Okay, back to the essay. Finished. Man, hope that dude is playing the long game… mixed up, muddled up… mutter, mutter under my breath.
Thanks Harrison for this focus on state sanctioned and encouraged personality disorders and reminding me again to get back into Lobaczewski with our contemporary lens (or rather our current experience of political/cultural ponerology!)
So much more to say on this topic! One of the manifestations of a cancer that is collapsing the western world. Looking forward to more on this from you.
Thank you for this! Appreciate the upgrades to my arsenal of maps, evidence, and perspectives, esp. Josh Slocum.
**FYI** Harrison, this didn't hit my inbox. I tried posting something new 90 mins ago and Substack's email servers didn't send it out. Test publish doesn't work either. I emailed support for information but nothing so far.
It's long been my suspicion that the trans explosion has run in lockstep with the steady insertion of of GMO's and EDC's into the food chain. Is it a coincidence that the Russians banned GMO's years ago and don't appear to have any tranny issues?
https://odysee.com/@TLAVagabond:5/TDWU-6-11-23:7
Another excellent and insightful post (I was also going to say "brave" - which it is - but this just speaks to how well the psychopaths are at cowing us). When was Political Ponerology first published? It seems awfully prophetic of todays world? So I am getting the picture... Evil is real; evil is the coercion and removal of people's freedoms; psychopaths are everywhere and gaming all our systems to gain power; the modus operandi of psychopaths is force others to conform to their mad patterns...?
Well of course you make a very good point. I wish, though, that it were as cut-and-dried as we would like it to be.
What we seem to be seeing is a gradual wearing down of society by persons who society would like to deal with but simply does not know how to, within the framework of, say, modern secular liberalism.
One indication of how odd this is, is that most people still agree on certain basic moral (and legal) principles, while many "pro Democracy" persons wish to raise dissenting voices to some level of authority over the majority. In a "democracy" does not the majority have the right to rule?
But more to the point, these widely held agreements are the basis for what might be called a "sane" game of life on Earth. They have resulted in periods of general happiness, even economic growth, on several occasions, and thus could be considered "workable."
To abandon these agreements because some individuals feel abused by them is to turn our backs on a workable system. It many not be a perfect system, but it has proven to be workable. And I think that should be the only test of it. There should be no ideological test for any human system beyond asking the question of how many can attain some degree of happiness by following it.
If Hubbard is correct about the psychopath being stuck in some past incident where he was so thoroughly attacked that he now harbors an intense fear of everyone around him, including even his "fellow" psychopaths, then we see how he could conclude that our workable system should be fought against. This would be a totally irrational conclusion based on unfounded fears, but of course the psychopath has no way to realize that and resolve it for himself.
That most of psychology still sees mental unwellness as a problem that must have somehow developed in this lifetime, or if not is "genetic" and therefore unsolvable, has become a major impediment to handling this situation. In fact, it has put many of them, willingly or not, on the side of those who want to "let it all hang out." If psychology cannot get through this and rise to a clearer awareness about this, it will be no help to the majority who wish Earth to remain sane, and may even become antagonistic to us, as many individual psychologists and psychiatrists already are.
But if we take the meaning of "psychology" seriously, then that is definitely where we will find the answer. While I can say that Hubbard has already found the answer, that does not totally remedy the situation, as he only went so far as to make it possible to operate an organization that could detect and remove psychopaths, not one that could handle them in the context of broader society.
If we are serious about saving the game of life on Earth (and many, even Hubbard, question the ultimate value of doing that) then we need to extend the reach of our secular humanism to include a total appreciation of what Lobaczewski and others have been writing about AND a workable handling for the most demented people of this planet. They are far from a majority, but they possess enough nervous mental energy to do great harm, or even end life here, and that only becomes more clear every day.