“ Why does everyone have to accommodate these mental illness cases?”
I’ve been around it. It’s largely due to one of two reasons. First, some people believe they can somehow personally benefit if they pretend with everyone else. Second, there are a LOT of lemmings that go along with it just because it’s the latest and greatest thing. Otherwise highly intelligent people somehow get a case of the stupids because they don’t want to think objectively. My personal observation is that those people usually end up with buyer remorse, but I found that no amount of warning does any good.
It took me a while to understand this conundrum, then I heard a good quote. It goes something like this; stupidity isn’t an intelligence problem, it’s a morality problem.
There are very low IQ’d people who avoid doing stupid things, while there are highly intelligent people that regularly do stupid things.
Two reasons:
1. It’s the current fad, and they want to signal their virtue.
2. They are obsessed with the abnormal.
A freeper recently posted an essay by Joseph Sobran,written in 1985 which lays out the modern liberal with uncanny prescience:
For the modern liberal, who is essentially a man of the Left, the immediate has apocalyptic urgency. He is an active member of the Cause-of-the-Month Club, forever prescribing drastic action to prevent the world from being blown up, overpopulated, poisoned, oppressed, or exploited. He thinks a government that maintains law and order — a big job at any time — is “doing nothing”; because to his mind a steady and quiet activity is nothing more than inactivity. Though he speaks the language of environmental preservation well enough, he never pauses to imagine the “environmental impact” of his own policies on a social ecology that is, after all, no less real because he disregards it.
In short, he is always sacrificing the normal (he is barely aware of it, or sneers at it as “bourgeois”) to the abnormal. Life, to him, is a series of crises, inseparable from politics. He is too concerned about our “rights” to bother about our health — rather as if a man dying of cirrhosis were to toast the repeal of Prohibition. If he ever has moments of well-being outside of politics, he has no vocabulary in which to talk about them.
As Mark Twain once said, “It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”
As a friend called them “Trenders”. Whatever the cool hip thing was they got on board. And then there is always the “follow the money” aspect.