Another great article. The Maid act will be adopted nationwide, and anyone over 60 will be on the roster. I have no idea how we came to this. I am embarrassed to be a woman, but men are not that much better. My dad, with his 8th grade education, told me we would reach this point. I thought he was nuts. Abba, I am so sorry.
I am disabled. One of my physicians mentioned I’m lucky to be in the US because if I lived 150 miles north in BC, I’d have already been offered MAID. It’s so much cheaper and better for the collective to kill me after all. This notwithstanding that I am not on government aid and own my own business.
There is no doubt that the same cultish thinking of the young, mostly white women who are DSA members is the same mentality of the girls who joined Charlie Manson's cult near Chatsworth CA at the horse ranch, or the women (and some beta men) who joined the cult in Jonestown in Guyana where they all committed mass suicide. These are people who are looking for meaning in their lives and find it in a psychotic cult leader, probably above average IQ, who has a tale to tell of his / her specialness. There are people in every generation susceptible to this pitch. The Democrats have more than their fair share (there have been a few who appeal directly to men with a promise of violent revolution; someone like Vladimir Lenin, for example).
I read somewhere, of course not knowing if it's true, that translation of books from the west...textbooks, reference, novels etc to languages spoken in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine and the like can be counted on 1 hand on a yearly basis. Keep em uneducated and impressionable. Here in the states, it's our education system keeping our youth uneducated and impressionable. By design
We are watching the series "Manifest" on Netflix right now. It is eerily predictive of today in an over-the-top way (it is a few years old now) with a key character (Angela) who is a woman convinced she is "chosen" by God to end civilization. She is pure evil but comes off as innocent and misguided. She is so much like many of the DSA women who are proselytizing for the destruction of America and our Constitutional rights, if not end of the world.
May you live in interesting times, goes the proverb. I don’t want my times to be any more interesting. There seems to be a mass psychosis or mass hysteria occurring, the origin of which is unknown. It can’t all be attributed to the rise of Trump; that is too irrational. I’m very sad for our country, and the world. How do we snap out of this?
I'm getting on in years (77) so I've lived through the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, etc..The time since 2000 and, especially, since 2010, have been the most terrible of my life. While there have been dangerous cults in prior decades they were limited in membership and had little media and political influence. What we are currently seeing is widespread cultish behavior taking in broad swathes of the population, organized, controlling many institutions including the media, and threatening to obtain electoral political power. If you ask me we are living through a VERY dangerous time. Mass psychosis or hysteria, indeed. I hope we still can snap out of it. I have my doubts.
I'm 73 and I feel the same way. I lived in Italy in the late 90s until 2015 and came back to work at a private school in CA. I remember not quite being able to understand where people were coming from. There was one female teacher, married with children, who enthusiastically took on the role of sex education teacher (she had a Ph.D in English). They were all vehemently against Trump and always talked with fervor about Obama and Kamala. I couldn't understand them--it was as if they were in a different country from the one I had left.
Do a deep dive into the American sociology of the 1850s leading up to the Civil War. Another Fourth Turning, and a very unpleasant resolution, but that’s what this one will require, too.
After the "Charlie Hebdo" massacre in January 2015, there was an enormous outpouring of support for the victims and for freedom of expression. Much of it, however, was symbolic: *Je suis Charlie* signs, candlelight vigils, and pens and pencils held aloft as symbols of free speech. Critics argued that these gestures, however well intentioned, did little to confront the intimidation that had made Charlie Hebdo a target in the first place.
Some conservative commentators advocated a more confrontational response: widely publishing or drawing images of Muhammad, on the theory that the risk could be dispersed if thousands of people did what the "Charlie Hebdo" cartoonists had been murdered for doing. Mark Steyn, for example, argued that other media organizations had left Charlie Hebdo to bear that risk almost alone and that widespread publication would make it impossible to intimidate everyone into silence.
That argument was taken a step further in May 2015, when Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative organized a “Draw Muhammad” cartoon contest at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an outspoken critic of Islam, was the keynote speaker. The event was deliberately provocative and was defended by its organizers as an exercise in freedom of speech.
The threat it was intended to challenge quickly became real. As the event was ending, two gunmen opened fire outside the center, wounding a security officer before being shot and killed by police.
Reaction to both the contest and the attack was divided. The terrorist attack was widely condemned, but there was considerably less agreement about the event itself. Supporters argued that deliberately exercising a threatened right was precisely the point: a right abandoned because exercising it might provoke violence is no longer much of a right. Critics, while condemning the violence, argued that the contest was needlessly provocative and designed primarily to offend Muslims.
There is such thing as a person being possessed by a demon. It's not common but if society overall gets to be more open to it, it will be more common. I remember over 20 years ago, I was at a local Walgreens and asked for help from a young employee and somehow the conversation got around to horror movies (maybe it was Halloween - I can't remember) and I mentioned I hated the violent horror movies like the "Chainsaw Massacre" (or whatever movie was out at the time) and she said "Oh, I love those movies and I see them all the time with my boyfriend". I said "Really? But they are so bloody and violent" and she said "Yeah, they are" and her eyes changed. They became intense and sinister, if that makes sense. I remember thinking, "Oh, we are screwed".....but then I remembered "Greater is He that is in you, then he that is in the world" written by the Apostle John.
And those who have been sounding the alarm all these years are just conspiracy theorists or worse. It’s horrible how so many are walking so blindly, so cheerfully towards their own oppression and destruction.
I just started reading the Israeli Government's report on the atrocities of the October 2023 attack. It was primarily aimed at sexually assaulting and sexually humiliating Israel women, with rape and gang rape before torturing them to death even more than killing their men.
Sexual violence was not incidental to the October 7th attacks; it was central. Women and girls, and, in many cases, men and boys, were subjected to rape, sexualized torture, mutilation, forced nudity, and desecration of bodies. Parents were murdered in front of their children; siblings assaulted in front of one another; victims stripped, violated, filmed, and displayed. These were not crimes of passion: they were coordinated and orchestrated to exacerbate the cruelty of crimes that are sexual in nature.
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And all we hear from a certain class of idiot leftwing Western women is that we need to let more of these sadistic killers into their countries.
I think we are 6 yrs away from the DNC endorsing abortions up to 2 yrs after birth: that’s how crazy these loons have become and will become.
Yep, the Clancy murders are pretty much just that, post-partum depression leading to post-partum "abortion"
Meet the new cults. Same as the old cults. The Manson family, Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, and Buddhafield all have parallels with the modern left’s suicidal embrace of trans, DEI, and ESG: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-join-a-cult-manson-1969-jonestown-esg
Don't forget David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. It happens in every generation
At least those Heaven's Gate nutjobs had cool jumpsuits, kind of like old-school school Devo
Another great article. The Maid act will be adopted nationwide, and anyone over 60 will be on the roster. I have no idea how we came to this. I am embarrassed to be a woman, but men are not that much better. My dad, with his 8th grade education, told me we would reach this point. I thought he was nuts. Abba, I am so sorry.
I am disabled. One of my physicians mentioned I’m lucky to be in the US because if I lived 150 miles north in BC, I’d have already been offered MAID. It’s so much cheaper and better for the collective to kill me after all. This notwithstanding that I am not on government aid and own my own business.
There is no doubt that the same cultish thinking of the young, mostly white women who are DSA members is the same mentality of the girls who joined Charlie Manson's cult near Chatsworth CA at the horse ranch, or the women (and some beta men) who joined the cult in Jonestown in Guyana where they all committed mass suicide. These are people who are looking for meaning in their lives and find it in a psychotic cult leader, probably above average IQ, who has a tale to tell of his / her specialness. There are people in every generation susceptible to this pitch. The Democrats have more than their fair share (there have been a few who appeal directly to men with a promise of violent revolution; someone like Vladimir Lenin, for example).
I read somewhere, of course not knowing if it's true, that translation of books from the west...textbooks, reference, novels etc to languages spoken in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine and the like can be counted on 1 hand on a yearly basis. Keep em uneducated and impressionable. Here in the states, it's our education system keeping our youth uneducated and impressionable. By design
Arabic is a difficult language to read, even for native speakers, so few read for pleasure.
Absolutely spot-on. Their outrage is their religion. It's terrifying.
We are watching the series "Manifest" on Netflix right now. It is eerily predictive of today in an over-the-top way (it is a few years old now) with a key character (Angela) who is a woman convinced she is "chosen" by God to end civilization. She is pure evil but comes off as innocent and misguided. She is so much like many of the DSA women who are proselytizing for the destruction of America and our Constitutional rights, if not end of the world.
It sounds disturbing and too close to today's reality. I'll never understand the depth of righteousness and hatred we're seeing now.
Correction: self-righteousness.
Similarly, the leftist women who parade in Handmaid's Tale outfits while ignoring those real-life women who have to wear burqas.
May you live in interesting times, goes the proverb. I don’t want my times to be any more interesting. There seems to be a mass psychosis or mass hysteria occurring, the origin of which is unknown. It can’t all be attributed to the rise of Trump; that is too irrational. I’m very sad for our country, and the world. How do we snap out of this?
I'm getting on in years (77) so I've lived through the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, etc..The time since 2000 and, especially, since 2010, have been the most terrible of my life. While there have been dangerous cults in prior decades they were limited in membership and had little media and political influence. What we are currently seeing is widespread cultish behavior taking in broad swathes of the population, organized, controlling many institutions including the media, and threatening to obtain electoral political power. If you ask me we are living through a VERY dangerous time. Mass psychosis or hysteria, indeed. I hope we still can snap out of it. I have my doubts.
I'm 73 and I feel the same way. I lived in Italy in the late 90s until 2015 and came back to work at a private school in CA. I remember not quite being able to understand where people were coming from. There was one female teacher, married with children, who enthusiastically took on the role of sex education teacher (she had a Ph.D in English). They were all vehemently against Trump and always talked with fervor about Obama and Kamala. I couldn't understand them--it was as if they were in a different country from the one I had left.
They are. As Michael Shellenberger says, they live in a dreamworld.
Do a deep dive into the American sociology of the 1850s leading up to the Civil War. Another Fourth Turning, and a very unpleasant resolution, but that’s what this one will require, too.
Remember, Bernardine Dohrn of the Weather Underground cheered the Mansion Family for "Killing the pigs", including pregnant Sharon Tate.
After the "Charlie Hebdo" massacre in January 2015, there was an enormous outpouring of support for the victims and for freedom of expression. Much of it, however, was symbolic: *Je suis Charlie* signs, candlelight vigils, and pens and pencils held aloft as symbols of free speech. Critics argued that these gestures, however well intentioned, did little to confront the intimidation that had made Charlie Hebdo a target in the first place.
Some conservative commentators advocated a more confrontational response: widely publishing or drawing images of Muhammad, on the theory that the risk could be dispersed if thousands of people did what the "Charlie Hebdo" cartoonists had been murdered for doing. Mark Steyn, for example, argued that other media organizations had left Charlie Hebdo to bear that risk almost alone and that widespread publication would make it impossible to intimidate everyone into silence.
That argument was taken a step further in May 2015, when Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative organized a “Draw Muhammad” cartoon contest at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an outspoken critic of Islam, was the keynote speaker. The event was deliberately provocative and was defended by its organizers as an exercise in freedom of speech.
The threat it was intended to challenge quickly became real. As the event was ending, two gunmen opened fire outside the center, wounding a security officer before being shot and killed by police.
Reaction to both the contest and the attack was divided. The terrorist attack was widely condemned, but there was considerably less agreement about the event itself. Supporters argued that deliberately exercising a threatened right was precisely the point: a right abandoned because exercising it might provoke violence is no longer much of a right. Critics, while condemning the violence, argued that the contest was needlessly provocative and designed primarily to offend Muslims.
One police officer with a pistol killed two terrorists with rifles.
Either he was a "natural" or he did his duty by spending a lot of time at the shooting range! Good job - he saved lives!
There is a word for this, and not all can hear it, except in the neutered abstract.
The word is Satanic.
There is another Word that too few can/will hear.
There is such thing as a person being possessed by a demon. It's not common but if society overall gets to be more open to it, it will be more common. I remember over 20 years ago, I was at a local Walgreens and asked for help from a young employee and somehow the conversation got around to horror movies (maybe it was Halloween - I can't remember) and I mentioned I hated the violent horror movies like the "Chainsaw Massacre" (or whatever movie was out at the time) and she said "Oh, I love those movies and I see them all the time with my boyfriend". I said "Really? But they are so bloody and violent" and she said "Yeah, they are" and her eyes changed. They became intense and sinister, if that makes sense. I remember thinking, "Oh, we are screwed".....but then I remembered "Greater is He that is in you, then he that is in the world" written by the Apostle John.
Meth can do that.
People are marching straight into the blades of a chain saw. Willingly.
And those who have been sounding the alarm all these years are just conspiracy theorists or worse. It’s horrible how so many are walking so blindly, so cheerfully towards their own oppression and destruction.
I just started reading the Israeli Government's report on the atrocities of the October 2023 attack. It was primarily aimed at sexually assaulting and sexually humiliating Israel women, with rape and gang rape before torturing them to death even more than killing their men.
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https://cc4e0711-9401-400e-ae14-65ae0400675b.filesusr.com/ugd/aab121_7ac7981aff1043d49c55e5aeb012abe9.pdf
Sexual violence was not incidental to the October 7th attacks; it was central. Women and girls, and, in many cases, men and boys, were subjected to rape, sexualized torture, mutilation, forced nudity, and desecration of bodies. Parents were murdered in front of their children; siblings assaulted in front of one another; victims stripped, violated, filmed, and displayed. These were not crimes of passion: they were coordinated and orchestrated to exacerbate the cruelty of crimes that are sexual in nature.
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And all we hear from a certain class of idiot leftwing Western women is that we need to let more of these sadistic killers into their countries.
How did we get here so fast? Sasha, I don’t know how you can watch and collect these video montages? I can’t make it past 1 minute.
Those people are nuts.
sadomasochism
I am 72 and this makes me profoundly sad.