I'm trying to figure out how this very "woke" group that you mention became this century's biggest warmongers and champions of the surveillance state. All in a few short years. Too much screen time? Too much Pentagon propaganda inserted into video games and streaming services?
Thank you for this article. It reminds me of why I am constantly annoyed by the yard signs, with rainbow colors, stating ‘all are welcome here’. What the hell does that even mean? That, ‘all are *not* welcome’ at homes who don’t display that sign? It’s all so ridiculously stupid that I can’t stand it.
OK. I can socially tolerate people who are ignorant, stupid, obese, loud, arrogant, dishonest, delusional, and aggressive. Just don't tell me I have to like or respect them. And if such people attempt to evangelise their qualities at me, I regard this as a declaration of micro-war and I take no prisoners.
The State, and The Elites, are allowing this sort of tyranny of the minority because it does not affect their power. In fact, they are able to co-opt it to gain more power and control. Usually in the name of "disinformation" and their desire to control it.
Meanwhile, the corporatization of everything continues to run amok, as Big Media/Big Government/Big Tech consolidate power and influence.
One of the writers below pointed out that Bolshevik means majority. Actually it means biggest group or movement. They were one of the smallest , though, in the constellation of groups opposing the Czar and the Russian system, but they were the most ruthless and violent, even more so than the anarchists. The Nazis took power in Germany in '33 with less than a third of the vote, but like the communists to the east, were the most violent and murderous group there, using the Reichstag fire in '33, set by one Dutch communist, to seize power throughout Germany, very much the same as the Uniparty is using 6 Jan 21 to do so here. My point is that even though they are a small slice of the population all over the Western democracies, these people are totalitarians and have no moral basis to anything they do: it's all about their own power and aggrandizement. That's why they have to be opposed everywhere and about everything.
Chris Bray recommended I read this post. While reading I decided to confess a personal secret. I earned an economics degree at a top university in the US but just recently learned that Bolshevik means "majority".
It's a religion of the Uber Woke and Always Aggrieved. Unlike Christianity which has forgiveness as one of its biggest tenets, this Uber Woke religion has no forgiveness, but requires you to pay for your sins.
“Between just eight and thirteen percent of the population strangle the national conversation.”
I agree that the “tiny slice” of zealots you write about is wrecking civilization in western nations through the valuation of current-year piety above competency, probity, and traditional values.
They should be ignored or, better yet, opposed.
I suggest we should also ignore or oppose the constant complaints and demands of another “tiny slice” of the U.S. population that is also wrecking normal, safe, competent, civilized society for the majority of Americans - a so-called “community” that forms at most 13 percent of the population (though, given the fact that thousands of invaders walk into the country every day and we have no way of knowing the real population of the U.S., I suspect this sacralized “community” actually comprises less than 10% of the total number).
Our constant bending over backwards to placate this implacable “tiny slice” and the unspoken open secret of their social dysfunction and wildly disproportionate criminality is wrecking the nation.
They, too, should be ignored or, better yet, opposed.
The entire activist project in the post-Civil Rights era is to play upon the white/straight/cis guilt of the elites to get them to grant the activists power that they could never win democratically.
But if you turn your back on them, they will stab you in the back. They control the media use it as a deadly weapon. They turn the complacency of we who believe in live-and-let-live into a failing.
I'm trying to figure out how this very "woke" group that you mention became this century's biggest warmongers and champions of the surveillance state. All in a few short years. Too much screen time? Too much Pentagon propaganda inserted into video games and streaming services?
'spring through the floorboards'
'pseudish academics'
Priceless.
Thank you for this article. It reminds me of why I am constantly annoyed by the yard signs, with rainbow colors, stating ‘all are welcome here’. What the hell does that even mean? That, ‘all are *not* welcome’ at homes who don’t display that sign? It’s all so ridiculously stupid that I can’t stand it.
The great irony of 'non-judgementalism' is that it is, by definition, judgemental.
'I don't judge anyone' is making a judgement! Bizarre world.
Thank you for reading.
Chris Bray recommended this, you're like a British version of him! At last! Love the skit on Harry and Meghan 😂😂😂 thanks for this, very relatable 👍
I am urged to respect and embrace everybody.
OK. I can socially tolerate people who are ignorant, stupid, obese, loud, arrogant, dishonest, delusional, and aggressive. Just don't tell me I have to like or respect them. And if such people attempt to evangelise their qualities at me, I regard this as a declaration of micro-war and I take no prisoners.
The State, and The Elites, are allowing this sort of tyranny of the minority because it does not affect their power. In fact, they are able to co-opt it to gain more power and control. Usually in the name of "disinformation" and their desire to control it.
Meanwhile, the corporatization of everything continues to run amok, as Big Media/Big Government/Big Tech consolidate power and influence.
Beautifully and brilliantly written; thank you. Sadly, only too relatable as well.
It is actually less than 1%. So why are we allowing this? Nobody wants to be called "racist."
This world is many Seinfeld episodes.
"is like revealing one doesn’t shit on a bus seat in full view of other passengers. That one is anti-shitting-in-public."
Are you kink-shaming? Bigot.
/sarc
One of the writers below pointed out that Bolshevik means majority. Actually it means biggest group or movement. They were one of the smallest , though, in the constellation of groups opposing the Czar and the Russian system, but they were the most ruthless and violent, even more so than the anarchists. The Nazis took power in Germany in '33 with less than a third of the vote, but like the communists to the east, were the most violent and murderous group there, using the Reichstag fire in '33, set by one Dutch communist, to seize power throughout Germany, very much the same as the Uniparty is using 6 Jan 21 to do so here. My point is that even though they are a small slice of the population all over the Western democracies, these people are totalitarians and have no moral basis to anything they do: it's all about their own power and aggrandizement. That's why they have to be opposed everywhere and about everything.
Danny Huckabee
Chris Bray recommended I read this post. While reading I decided to confess a personal secret. I earned an economics degree at a top university in the US but just recently learned that Bolshevik means "majority".
It's a religion of the Uber Woke and Always Aggrieved. Unlike Christianity which has forgiveness as one of its biggest tenets, this Uber Woke religion has no forgiveness, but requires you to pay for your sins.
It's very frustrating to get wagged by the tail.
Nice work.
You're a 21st century Swift, don't stop.
“Between just eight and thirteen percent of the population strangle the national conversation.”
I agree that the “tiny slice” of zealots you write about is wrecking civilization in western nations through the valuation of current-year piety above competency, probity, and traditional values.
They should be ignored or, better yet, opposed.
I suggest we should also ignore or oppose the constant complaints and demands of another “tiny slice” of the U.S. population that is also wrecking normal, safe, competent, civilized society for the majority of Americans - a so-called “community” that forms at most 13 percent of the population (though, given the fact that thousands of invaders walk into the country every day and we have no way of knowing the real population of the U.S., I suspect this sacralized “community” actually comprises less than 10% of the total number).
Our constant bending over backwards to placate this implacable “tiny slice” and the unspoken open secret of their social dysfunction and wildly disproportionate criminality is wrecking the nation.
They, too, should be ignored or, better yet, opposed.
The entire activist project in the post-Civil Rights era is to play upon the white/straight/cis guilt of the elites to get them to grant the activists power that they could never win democratically.
I propose we stop letting the elites do that.
I prefer ignoring. It’s easier. And it doesn’t legitimize them!
I would prefer that, too.
But if you turn your back on them, they will stab you in the back. They control the media use it as a deadly weapon. They turn the complacency of we who believe in live-and-let-live into a failing.