Showing posts with label cancel culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancel culture. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2020

Urban Chaos


Heard an interesting analysis by a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show last night describing why the urban chaos seems to be engulfing our country ... let me see it I can reproduce and expand on this inspired insight here:

Quite obviously unpunished violence, riots and looting are infecting many of our major formally-beautiful cities: Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Atlanta, New York (I have to stop ... I’m getting myself depressed.) Anyhow, this malignant dystopia is clearly spreading unchecked ... much even encourage by these cities’ burgers. This insanity is perplexing ... it long ago stopped being about George Floyd and black lives ... yet there is one possible explanation — Donald Trump’s winning the presidency was an existential shock to liberals ... a shock so extreme that it demanded retribution.

This retribution has taken many forms ... Obamagate, the Mueller witch-hunt, the Trump impeachment, the deep-state Resistance, the media’s spittle-flecked mania, the Cancel Culture, a political swing to the looney left (many otherwise sensible friends now declare themselves as Socialists), defunding the police ... and now the Clockwork Orange dystopia as described above. All these damaging memes were and are mis- and self-directed to atone somehow for the sin of Trump’s ascendency. And the punishers are trying to destroy not just Trump but, failing that, befouling that which Trump cherishes ... his country. (And they are also lashing out at those of us who voted him into office ... an easier target)

This is almost a mass psychosis but, if not that, it’s certainly a mass neurosis. If you will permit me an analogy ... all you agitated anti-Trumpers can be likened to disturbed teenagers who injure themselves with razor blades ... the “cutters” ...  because they (you?) can’t injure the real target of their (your?) rage ... the Orangeman ... so they (you?) injure themselves (yourselves?).  After all, what is much of  this “white privilege” sackcloth-and-ashes BS but a form of self-loathing.

You see, all this urban chaos might be simply explained!


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Saturday, August 01, 2020

Today’s Poser


Isn’t today’s Cancel Culture, which curses our history, a lot like children suing their parents for any bad genes they inherited?

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Friday, July 24, 2020

Headlines


Americans tune into ‘cancel culture’ — and don’t like what they see

U.S. agrees to pay Pfizer and BioNTech $2 billion for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine

Price tag of Biden campaign promises nears $10 trillion

Senate transcripts: Joe Biden Quoted N-word 13 times in 1985 hearings

Feds assemble ‘Operation Diligent Valor’ force to battle Portland unrest

Existing home sales surge nearly 21% in June — a record monthly gain

Google appears to blacklist major conservative news sites

At least 14 wounded following shooting outside Chicago funeral home

Liz Cheney defends pro-Trump bona fides after GOP attacks

State Department orders China to close consulate in Houston — China vows retaliation

Gold and silver prices spike

Hollywood dunks on Trump after he offered well wishes to Maxwell


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Thursday, June 18, 2020

The Crucible


There is no question we are in the middle of unhinged times ... another mania like the Salem witch trials ... the analogy that playwright Arthur Miller used for the McCarthy HUAC hearings ... which became a run-away tracking down of Communists inside our government. His analog play was called “The Crucible” (a white-hot container in which to melt metals) ... an attempt to show America how “cures” often go to excess and threaten to destroy the patient.

Another parallel to our current woke mania is the post-French Revolution when much of its nobles were beheaded in a popular blood-list. Here is a better recital of those crazy times than I could write ... see: Splendid Isolation post.

So now we have four instances of societies spinning out of control ... McCarthy’s HUAC, Salem witch trials, the French guillotine blood lust and our current “cancel culture” ... led by an amorphous band of millennials and West-coast techies ... and threatening to defund the police and turn over our cities to the anarchists.

Must be a periodic societal trope ... kinda like lemmings leaping into the sea. I’m doing my best to sit this one out ... if  the Committee of Public Safety will let me.

 Afterward: Another analog ... the Chinese Cultural Revolution ... see: Mao Lives Here

Even later: The Spanish Inquisition.