Trial By Ordeal

“Let’s put you in the dunking chair and we’ll figure out what nature says about your status in the next world, and then we’ll make a decision about what to do with your still-living body.” — Matt Taibbi

I’m sure you’re asking yourself: what’s up with the company CEOs like Anheuser-Busch’s Brendan Whitworth, Target’s Brian Cornell, and North Face’s Todd Spaletto? Did they green-light the disastrous Pride Month marketing campaigns based on transgender activism that are suddenly wrecking their businesses? Or do these things just happen down the chain-of-command while the top dogs are otherwise occupied, knocking golf balls around or reviewing their stock options’ strike prices?

I’ll tell you what you’re not seeing and hearing: the red-faced shrieking in the board rooms as boycotts kill sales and directors face the wrath of the share-holders. It was one thing when Bud Light hitched trans “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney to the beer wagon in place of the traditional Clydesdale horses. After all, every state has a drinking age, though it’s pretty astounding that anyone at Anheuser-Busch thought “Ms.” Mulvaney’s cringy Instagram antics would sell beer to grown men moving appliances and fixing pot-holes.

It’s another thing, in the case of Target, to aim sexually-loaded gear to little children, for instance a line of T-shirts that proclaim “Satan Respects Pronouns” made by one Erik Carnell’s Abprellen company out of London. “Mr.” Carnell expounded on that idea on his company’s website (now taken down):

Satanists don’t actually believe in Satan, he is merely used as a symbol of passion, pride, and liberty. He means to you what you need him to mean. So, for me, Satan is hope, compassion, equality, and love. So, naturally, Satan respects pronouns. He loves all LGBT+ people. I went with a variation of Baphomet for this design, a deity who themself is a mixture of genders, beings, ideas, and existences.”

Would it surprise you to learn that children well beneath the age of puberty are not inclined to think about sex at all? In a well-ordered society that recognizes children as different from adults, they don’t. And if something sexual comes to their attention, they are generally perplexed by it. Unless they’re born into an era when adults are busy erasing boundaries, guard-rails, and cultural inhibitions, in which case I must imagine that young children exposed to, say, pornography in a chaotic household find it traumatically sinister. So, why the gleeful celebration about sexualizing children now?

I’ll tell you why: because we are living in a very badly-ordered society these days, a society in which anything goes and nothing matters, which is a poor principle for civilization. It’s the same principle that has people shitting all over the sidewalks of San Francisco, looting Walgreens stores in broad daylight, pushing ineffective and unsafe vaccines (and lying about it), and arresting people for thought crimes. It’s a degenerate society. Morally bankrupt. Wicked.

You might ask, how did it get that way? The concise answer is that a broken business model for daily life and a collapsing economy have so disordered millions of minds that values are seen as having no value. The scaffold for truth, beauty, honor, dignity, courage, prudence, generosity, etc., folded some time ago, in slow-motion, so we didn’t notice.

The keepers of our culture have replaced it with a tacky system of ritual virtue-signaling fakery that they don’t really believe in, that persists simply because the moral vacuum it stands for provokes such unbearable anxiety. The main lesson of the recent Durham Report — missed by even the most punctilious observers — is that our country does not want to fix itself, indeed the whole broken apparatus of fixing it is in the hands of the people who broke it.....

The “critical theory of Marxism” is focused on anything abnormal, perverted, criminal, and confrontational to cultural norms. The marxists hate everything that is traditional, moral, or beneficial to the existing society. Transgendering children without their parents knowledge is something that makes the marxist left jump around like crazed chimps.

The “critical theory of Marxism” is focused on anything abnormal, perverted, criminal, and confrontational to cultural norms.

That is marxist-inspired subversion, for sure.

But they are also Marxist managers and bureaucrats as well. They are infected by group-think. they are self-righteous. They believe people can be easily manipulated, and that change is driven from the top-down, led by politics.

therefore, its beyond their comprehension that "the masses" of customers might have a mind of their own.

Perhaps, but I think it is a purposeful attack by evil. And many don't see it and some are aligned to it.

Yes today’s world is the fruit of cultural marxism.

That's a big part, but I'm also seeing a heck of a lot more of Mao and his lot of red brigadiers lately. The only people celebrating Marx today are in western universities, even the Russians what nothing to do with Marx and his failures.

Today the Chinese Mao model seems to be ascending and is gaining popularity not only in western universities but in the corporate west. Why not hitch your company wagon to a government you control. Government power is useful and working together there is nothing you can't do.

But wait you say, under Mao the government controls all the companies. Its makes no difference when you are playing for the same team and everyone gets paid.

Just like the mob, your company has a problem with the union you call Polly, Can't get you delivers on time you call Polly want to build in a wetland Polly will take care of it.

It all sounds so great but Mao doesn't just want control over you and your money he demands your obedience and fealty. Mao wants your sole.

Sorry I've been on a rant today.

“Transgendering children without their parents knowledge is something that makes the marxist left jump around like crazed chimps.”

Actually, it’s also often done without even genuine informed consent by the children themselves. After all, how many eight-year-olds who casually talk about the possibility of being the other sex, have any idea what a horrific bureaucratic crunching, mutilating machine such conversation can get them into? Once one makes such an ignorant and innocent remark he or she is likely to be pulled into a social services mechanism that inexorably drives him or her into irreversible sex change, something that can only be done without the child’s parents’ knowledge. Thus, the whole practice becomes something much more like concentration camp experimentation in the Third Reich than any legitimate procedure. Indeed the whole process needs to be named what it is, Mengelization, after the late, unmourned Doktor Joseph Mengele, of Auschwitz fame.

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