The Kids Aren’t All Right: What the Gender-Identity Revolution Has in Common with 1960s’ Drug Culture

Public Discourse ^ | 2/16/2017 | SCOTT BEAUCHAMP

[aspasia]

The LSD consciousness-expansion movement of the late sixties and the campus gender-identity fixation of today are two examples of these counterfeit revolutions. The two might initially appear very different, but they share similar intellectual assumptions and therefore make analogous mistakes. Most significantly, both take rationality and physical fact as limitations to freedom, impediments to be transcended, instead of appropriate cornerstones of political freedom itself. They’re too incoherent to be rationally communicated and too individualistic to resist anomie. And so, denuded of genuine revolutionary potential, these children’s crusades cycle through failures.

[LadyDoc]

The sixties drug culture was pushed by peer pressure and pop icons like the Beetles. It was a fad among teens and young adults.

Teachers did not encourage 6 year olds to get high

Gender confusion is pushed by authority figures and well funded activist organizations. It is not a cultural change but a well directed revolution targeting children.

[aspasia]

The drug culture had an accessory worldview.