We are already there.
Posted on 04/24/2023 7:18:51 AM PDT by Twotone
We live in a time of opposite-think, a topsy-turvy era in which truths become distorted and inverted. Words refer to the reverse of what they once did, and most things are no longer what they seem. Ours is a woke epoch in which women can have penises and being colourblind is racist. In which ‘diversity’ is now code for ‘uniformity’, and ‘inclusivity’ means being inclusive only of people who agree with you. Uttering obvious untruths is now commonplace. Upending reality has been normalised.
At least that’s what I argued on spiked this time last year. So, 12 months on, how have matters transpired? Have we since started to return to normality? Or have we sunk further into the mendacious, fantastical quagmire?
Recent newspaper headlines suggest that opposite-think is here to stay. At the weekend, it was reported that employees at Monzo, the online bank, used an internal forum to mock a man who had questioned the firm’s transgender policies. The policies were announced in November to coincide with transgender-awareness week. They included describing maternity leave as ‘primary-caregiver leave’, having gender-neutral lavatories and urging staff to declare their pronouns.
On LinkedIn, a gay marketing professional not employed by Monzo voiced his disagreement with these policies. ‘I’m not sure this feels like an inclusive place for LGB [lesbian, gay and bisexual] colleagues / women who don’t subscribe to gender ideology’, he wrote. He then noticed that a number of Monzo staff had been looking at his LinkedIn profile. So he made a subject-access request to find out what data the bank held on him. This was when he saw what was said about him on Monzo’s internal forum.
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We are already there.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”
― George Orwell, 1984
It’s a blog.
Why not post the entire thing right here
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
–2 Timothy 4:3-4
Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
“and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
–2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
“So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world;”
–Revelation 12:9
“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
–John 3:19
Spiked Online is a little more than just a “blog”.
Swiped
Reject nature think. Which is odd cause they are all so environmentally disturbed.
Swiper no swiping!
Mathematics is largely a matter of facts and pure logic with 100 percent proofs prossible. To compare that with politics, ethics, policy, opinion, even medical opinion, is simply wrong. Apples and oranges. And who is to even say now what science is in a complex unknown topic? Do you know the Big Bang theory is now being recanted? How long was that considered true? SCIENCE!
I think science is fantastic and true. I just don’t think we know what actual science is or is not in many cases. We just. Don’t. Know. It’s ok to admit that.
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