A 'Call to Arms' to all reasonable Australians
Dear Reasonable Australians,
If you're paying attention, you may have noticed that the world has changed in fairly significant ways lately, while simultaneously it becomes increasingly politically incorrect to question any of it. For example: airlines are now prioritising DEI over our safety; should this be a thing? And why does seemingly every Australian website, organisation, event, etc, feel the need to continuously announce the fact of their and our alleged complicity as privileged oppressor colonialists?
Why has it become politically incorrect to ask the question: 'should a 50 year old "trans woman" ie a biological man, in the name of DEI, be swimming competitively against girls (yes, children) and using their locker rooms?' And sure, that's in the US, but we aren't so different or far behind. Eg, a biological man is now apparently the face of women's surfing for Australian brand Rip Curl (as well as, of course, competing in the women's division).
Why are racism and discrimination sanctified and implemented as state and national policy in the guise of anti-racism and anti-discrimination? Why are children being indoctrinated into Marxist ‘Woke’ ideology in schools?
Those are only a few of countless examples (and certainly on the milder side) of the collective insanity which we're all expected to play along with, and worse, support. We're living in a Chris Lilley satire which would be funny except it's real (ok I admit, at times it's still funny) and people are getting hurt.
A case in point: a subculture of people who identify as robots. Not long ago this would be called what it almost certainly is, namely, dissociation and depersonalisation, likely as the result of severe trauma. So instead of getting much needed psychotherapeutic help which could give these people a chance at a normal life, they're ‘validated’ and ‘affirmed’ and condemned to a highly disturbing existence (and you can bet that the appropriately inhuman surgeries will follow).
This is culture-wide normalisation of pathology and a dislocation and unmooring from reality. To that end, ‘tolerance’ has been effectively weaponised; outliers — ie those who don’t play along with the delusions, insanity or bad behaviour of others — are called ‘haters’, ‘oppressors’, and the like.
It has reached the point where our collective and individual moral compasses, perhaps the core mechanism by which we make sense of the world, have become severely — and, yes, deliberately — skewed, and the situation is rapidly deteriorating. I'm calling it the 'Dahmerisation' of society. To all you fledgling sadistic psychopaths out there, crime doesn’t pay. But you know what does? Becoming a ‘gender-affirming’ surgeon. They’ll give you a white coat and a Ferrari, and parents will line up to hand over their unconscious children for you to brutalise.
Yes folks, we're living in the Upside-Down. How else do you explain such wide-spread support for a known terrorist organisation which openly and unashamedly rapes, tortures, murders and kidnaps children, women, elderly? Oh right, it's perfectly justified because they're not terrorists, they're oppressed. Can you see the madness?
In the name of diversity, every and any impulse, no matter how vulgar, perverse or sadistic, is brought, unchallenged, into the light of day — not for the sake of examination, refinement and self-improvement but simply for its own sake; in the name of equity, each such impulse is as good and right — as ‘valid’ — as any other; and in the name of inclusion, each is then incorporated into the personality, and ultimately the culture. Distinctions between healthy and pathological, functional and dysfunctional, creative and destructive, adaptive and maladaptive, good and evil, have simply lost their valence.
[Before objecting to my claims, I suggest earnestly exploring these ideas — ideas in response to insidiously toxic and corrupting ideologies which have effectively infiltrated and contaminated not only our minds but practically every institution in Western civilisation. If you don't know about it then you should. The work of James Lindsay, Jonathan Haidt, Michael Shellenberger, and Australian Michael Nayna would be a good place to start.]
A ‘call to arms’ is not too strong a stance. This is indeed a war; a war on language, a war on democracy, a war on all that is decent, reasonable and sacred; a war on our very humanity. Civilisation as we know it stands in the balance. Now, the problem is very deep indeed but the first step of the solution couldn't be easier, and it's eminently democratic: call out BS when you see it! Aussies used to excel at that dying art. Here’s an apparently controversial idea: discrimination isn’t bad; neither is it wholly good. It’s useful and necessary when applied with wisdom.
We don’t want to permit entry of everything and anything into our personalities, lives or minds, and we don’t want to tolerate every and any form of behaviour or ideology in society. Discernment/discrimination is the mechanism by which we differentiate these categories of ‘in’ and ‘out’. And to do that, we also need to use ‘judgement’ (another word which has become weaponised and taboo and needs to be immediately redeemed). This, I suspect, would be the first step to reclaiming our rapidly evaporating sense of moral calibration, and our sanity. There is very much more to say but that will do for now.