“Shit is for puppies. They grow out of it.”
The Who: We are born knowing practically nothing and nothing practical. We learn most and best by imprinting on the people we grow up around, with your lifelong character emerging from habituated choices you made when you were too young to know you could choose. You trusted the people around you to set boundaries for you, and, when they didn’t, you acted out until they did – the meltdown. Underfathered children typically have no one to set boundaries for them, and, since frustrated displays escalate and amplify, over time their acting out becomes louder and more bizarre. This is the origin of the woke, but also of the over-pierced, the over-tattooed and of all those brand-new flavors of involuntary celibacy and suicidal despair we stupidly call “genders”. The woke and all of the shrieking lost children around us – melting down for life – are the result of bad examples set by their parents, who were themselves too busy destroying marriage and the family to care.
The Whom: Historically, theocracies have been Ci on top, Cs below. Go to temple, pay the tithe, don’t transgress overtly, stone a whore with the boys every now and then if you have a need to show off – otherwise you’re on your own. Cs dads are good dads, which is why these cultures endure. But: Theocracies suck, economically, and there is a limit to how much the parasitic class can demand without being replaced by new parasites. Marxism, by contrast, is Ci top to bottom. Displays are Ci down and Ic up – no exceptions, no deviations, no excuses. The only currency is compliance, and, in consequence, the only opportunities to stand out and advance come from spotlighting non-compliance. Hence cancel culture. To be woke is to be self-imprisoned into being nothing but woke – with your own unique, irreplaceable self being the everything that turns to shit first.
You may lament that woke lives are miserable, but at least celebrate the fact that they don’t reproduce. They have turned themselves to shit, and their life’s produce will come to shit, and they may yet turn the whole world to shit for revenge. But in the end they won’t matter at all, since only the children of good fathers – of good examples – matter.
In other news:
CNBC: Home sales rose for the second straight month in July, as demand outpaced slightly stronger supply.
City Journal: An Epidemic of Bad Budgeting: Covid-19 lockdowns exposed cities’ deep-seated financial troubles.
Mark Steyn: Meltdown of a Superpower.
The Federalist: Educrats Are Panicking As Their Extremism Alienates More Families. Because Ed got so Red, a huge proportion of school-age children will now learn to think.
