This is a good point well made - that “hate speech” laws are a form of safetyism, promoting a dependence model of personality.
It is akin to the weakening of immune response by over zealous house cleaning. This is not mental hygiene - it is a preference for sterilisation.
If the world is made safe for people who imagine words are violence then we shall inhabit a sort of universal asylum, where everything including minds are made soft - except the wrath of the wokescolds and the police state they imagine is a paradise.
It is your duty to say the unacceptable when it is true. This is a time for courage, not for compliance - because the aetiolation of humanity is a wickedness whose end is tyranny.
I agree. This substack is my attempt to work through the insanity I see around me.
I do see artificial protection as weakening. I also think the hated, mainly white heterosexual men, as beneficiaries in a sense. No help for us. Some are clearly succumbing to the pressure, although not all. The coming years may be the making of some as they turn up the heat.
Absolutely. I am prepared to go down with the ship 🤓
That is what I like about your work, it reminds us reality actually exists. Normality exists. Most people live in a normal world. It is good to remind ourselves a lot of what we see is driven by a small number of determined people.
I'm glad you mentioned sticks and stones. As someone who is older than dirt, this was constantly quoted at me during my childhood.
Most of the parenting books I read on becoming a parent emphasized the importance of resilience. What happened to that? We're raising a generation of snowflakes.
The self-esteem movement in the 1990s probably. It elevated self-esteem as the most important factor. So no one could be criticized. Fast forward a few decades and it has degenerated into hypersensitivity.
Nah, this one was all about how to create "little geniuses" by never shaming, correcting or yelling at your kids. It was vanity all around and the kids are paying the price, as are we all.
I have a telling anecdote from the 90's that relates to this. PBS ran this show about parenting. The scene I recall was a mother trying to get her little brat to go to bed. The little boy is on his bed playing with a toy in his clothes. The mother tells "little Timmy" or whatever that he needs to change his clothes for bed. Timmy ignores her. So she starts counting to 10 and when she gets to 9 he drops his toy and looks up. Then she says "now go to your dresser, take your clothes off and change into your pajamas". He ignores her and she starts the count again. Again she reaches 9 and he starts to do this. When he's done she tells him to brush his teeth but by this point he's back on the bed playing with his toy. So she does the counting thing again and at 9 he drops the toy and... on and on it goes.
And this was how PBS was telling parents to train their kids. It was insane. Truly.
And then I saw my brother basically doing the same kind of stupid thing in the early 2000's. When I asked him about it he said this was the new method and how great it was. He also mentioned something called the "Rye Method" which tells you that you have to explain everything to your kid in calm tones all the time.
All this seemed to me a way to coddle and spoil children while driving parents insane. And indeed I have seen many insane parents toiling away with just this kind of stupidity.
It's all about the vanity of the parents: they aren't going to ever yell at or correct their kid and little Susie will then become a genius or something.
And here we are 20-30 years later reaping the harvest.
But spare the rod and spoil the child. The power the media has over our lives is probably the big factor, and now there seems to be a strong conduit between crazy ideas in academia and broadcasting it everywhere.
Haha, that's more like how I grew up which is why my brother's conversion to woke child-rearing or whatever they call it was so jarring to me. He thought he was so advanced.
This is from eight years ago. Proof positive that the apparatchik censorship bureaucracy never rests, will never relent. But be of good cheer. We will never bend, we will never yield. Speech will create an unyielding insurgency which the deprivation of guns cannot. It's why ultimately they are cowards. They have to peck at the edges, lie and distort- because on almost every issue which they would attempt to force, the sleeping majority simply doesn't agree.
This is a good point well made - that “hate speech” laws are a form of safetyism, promoting a dependence model of personality.
It is akin to the weakening of immune response by over zealous house cleaning. This is not mental hygiene - it is a preference for sterilisation.
If the world is made safe for people who imagine words are violence then we shall inhabit a sort of universal asylum, where everything including minds are made soft - except the wrath of the wokescolds and the police state they imagine is a paradise.
It is your duty to say the unacceptable when it is true. This is a time for courage, not for compliance - because the aetiolation of humanity is a wickedness whose end is tyranny.
I agree. This substack is my attempt to work through the insanity I see around me.
I do see artificial protection as weakening. I also think the hated, mainly white heterosexual men, as beneficiaries in a sense. No help for us. Some are clearly succumbing to the pressure, although not all. The coming years may be the making of some as they turn up the heat.
It is time to spit out the pills, chew through the straps and vault the walls of this phantasmagorical paradise.
Fight back with basic observations of reality - and career-ending memes. These two are often the same thing.
Absolutely. I am prepared to go down with the ship 🤓
That is what I like about your work, it reminds us reality actually exists. Normality exists. Most people live in a normal world. It is good to remind ourselves a lot of what we see is driven by a small number of determined people.
I'm glad you mentioned sticks and stones. As someone who is older than dirt, this was constantly quoted at me during my childhood.
Most of the parenting books I read on becoming a parent emphasized the importance of resilience. What happened to that? We're raising a generation of snowflakes.
The self-esteem movement in the 1990s probably. It elevated self-esteem as the most important factor. So no one could be criticized. Fast forward a few decades and it has degenerated into hypersensitivity.
Seems like every movement with laudable original aims gets weaponized by opportunists, with unfortunate consequences.
Nah, this one was all about how to create "little geniuses" by never shaming, correcting or yelling at your kids. It was vanity all around and the kids are paying the price, as are we all.
I have a telling anecdote from the 90's that relates to this. PBS ran this show about parenting. The scene I recall was a mother trying to get her little brat to go to bed. The little boy is on his bed playing with a toy in his clothes. The mother tells "little Timmy" or whatever that he needs to change his clothes for bed. Timmy ignores her. So she starts counting to 10 and when she gets to 9 he drops his toy and looks up. Then she says "now go to your dresser, take your clothes off and change into your pajamas". He ignores her and she starts the count again. Again she reaches 9 and he starts to do this. When he's done she tells him to brush his teeth but by this point he's back on the bed playing with his toy. So she does the counting thing again and at 9 he drops the toy and... on and on it goes.
And this was how PBS was telling parents to train their kids. It was insane. Truly.
And then I saw my brother basically doing the same kind of stupid thing in the early 2000's. When I asked him about it he said this was the new method and how great it was. He also mentioned something called the "Rye Method" which tells you that you have to explain everything to your kid in calm tones all the time.
All this seemed to me a way to coddle and spoil children while driving parents insane. And indeed I have seen many insane parents toiling away with just this kind of stupidity.
It's all about the vanity of the parents: they aren't going to ever yell at or correct their kid and little Susie will then become a genius or something.
And here we are 20-30 years later reaping the harvest.
Bill Burr is good on this. 1970s parenting in an Irish family with five kids. I doubt his father counted to ten, lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBi5x6YWU8
But spare the rod and spoil the child. The power the media has over our lives is probably the big factor, and now there seems to be a strong conduit between crazy ideas in academia and broadcasting it everywhere.
Haha, that's more like how I grew up which is why my brother's conversion to woke child-rearing or whatever they call it was so jarring to me. He thought he was so advanced.
Fads come and go. The collapse will sort all of this. Those who survive will be tougher.
I posted this on Twitter here https://x.com/frankwrighter/status/1695094244547940458?s=46&t=DqxbN9vWjSnruxCOCLaRLA
Thank you. That is kind of you. I don't use any social media myself. So that is appreciated.
I am ashamed to admit I have a Twitter account that is not permanently banned.
I have never used social media. I probably should to promote this substack but I am not sure I could cope with it.
'I am ashamed to admit I have a Twitter account that is not permanently banned.'
Me too, but only because I almost never use it.
Great moniker. Bit jealous. But hey, Scientific Progress goes Doink!
Well expressed :)
Thanks for reading. I hope you feel suitably traumatized now 😜
This is from eight years ago. Proof positive that the apparatchik censorship bureaucracy never rests, will never relent. But be of good cheer. We will never bend, we will never yield. Speech will create an unyielding insurgency which the deprivation of guns cannot. It's why ultimately they are cowards. They have to peck at the edges, lie and distort- because on almost every issue which they would attempt to force, the sleeping majority simply doesn't agree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOlElzU4JBI
Doink nae - Boink!