“I wanted to make a work… about Britain for the British public.”
Our betters make art, get fat cheque.
Don’t All Rush At Once
Do you know of any “artists and visionaries,” or people “good at spreadsheets”? Because there may be a job going, come the revolution.
Can You Feel The Progress Yet?
On unmanning male heroes; on the sly malice of the activist class; on chronic tardiness as a progressive credential; and when a bewigged pervert takes an interest in the panties of schoolgirls, and progressive women rush to his defence.
The ‘M’ Word
On Britain’s NHS, where pretending is everything:
One might think that the employees having babies and therefore on maternity leave are, in fact, by definition, mothers. One might even think that a hospital, and a maternity hospital in particular, is a place where physical realities of this kind would be difficult to avoid.
Our Betters Make Plans
“What do we eat during the revolution?”
Turns out you can’t smash capitalism and agitate the proletariat without a solid meal plan.
Or Maybe You’re Just A Nasty, Spiteful Person
Curiously, given the stated importance of “sensitivity” and being mindful of what things might mean, we aren’t invited to ponder the kind of person who would resent someone else’s wedding photo. And then complain about it. Or whether such neurotic affectations, these unhappy mental habits, are something to be actively encouraged. In the name of progress. At a university.
When your Zoom-meeting décor is deemed oppressive. One of these.
I Know, Let’s All Pretend That Behaviour Doesn’t Matter
On crime, punishment, and the progressive flattening of values:
Flattening values, such that the criminal and their victims are somehow equal in moral worth, is a staple of progressive schtick. But it seems to me that the decision to try to steal someone’s dog is precisely how you know that that person’s wellbeing is of very low importance.
There follow some quite vivid examples of the schtick in question.
Her Brain Stole The Charity’s Money
When woke piety is tissue-thin camouflage for a shitty human being, part 4,022:
Ms Xahra Saleem, formerly Yvonne Maina, is the co-founder of the activist group All Black Lives Bristol, and was hailed by Rife magazine as one of Bristol’s “most influential under-30s.” Ms Saleem’s merry band of megaphone-waving statue-topplers have been the subject of endless gushing and deferential commentary, with the local university subsequently promising to “decolonise” All Of The Oppressive Things.
Discarded placards and assorted detritus from the group’s protests were fondled reverentially by staff of the local museum and stored for later worship as holy artefacts.
Alas, the reverence proved to be misplaced.
The Genitals Of Tomorrow
“Will technology give us options that are artistic and creative? Do we have to stick to penis and vagina norms? Can we have genitalia that look like flowers? Or abstract sculpture?”
It’s all very exciting, and just a little unhinged.
They Want You Dead
Financial Post- Worried about grocery prices? Wait till we get compulsory carbon accounting
Among other things, these standards mandate the use of intrusive, burdensome, and expensive CO2 emissions accounting across a company’s entire value chain. For grocery retailers this includes explaining and accounting for emissions in the production, transport, packaging, refrigeration, consumption and disposal of everything they sell. In other words, your grocery store will need to quantify all the emissions of that hamburger meat you bought: whether in producing it (including all steps from farm to processor), transporting it to the store, packaging and refrigerating it at the store, plus your travelling to and from the store, your refrigeration and eventually your cooking of the hamburger, and your disposal of the packaging and any waste of the food.
h/t Scott
Manitoba Flips to NDP
Equality Of Outcome Regardless Of Inputs
Or, Equity, Baby:
The genius of the “equity-focussed” policies, also being advanced in California and elsewhere, is that they are likely to have negative consequences for both ends of the ability spectrum. The cognitively untalented will be spared the normal incentives to master at least the basics, even the basics of behaviour, while the gifted will be denied access to advanced material more suited to their abilities, resulting in boredom and demoralisation.
Two birds, one stone.
Those Poor, Darling Shoplifters
Retailers, it seems, are asking for it. What with those short skirts. Sorry, accessible goods.
New, Improved Parenting
By harnessing the untapped power of unrelatedness, diffused responsibility, and a total lack of attraction.
Readers are invited to ponder the appeal, for any gentleman with fatherhood in mind, of effectively becoming a sperm donor who is also expected to perform household chores, for many years, and to pay child maintenance. In a sexless relationship with random lesbians who may find him barely tolerable, a necessary complication. But this, it seems, is how one “redefines the family unit completely.” It’s “the ideal parenting setup.”
Has Your Country’s History Been “Queered” yet?
And if not, why not?
Because when you look at a sixteenth-century mirror salvaged from a warship belonging to Henry VIII, the first thing the want to know is how it might induce psychological crises in the sexually dysmorphic.
Clearly, our culture is in the best of hands.
If It Were Straightforward, Anyone Could Do It
Transgender Reddit, where the fun never starts:
Trans men are getting their posts deleted for saying “guys.” It’s insane.
How Dare You Even Ask
Apparently, the professor was removed from his position as Dean for demanding the “abolition” of policing and incarceration, and demanding a “new, liberated society… free from violence and oppression.” And in which habitual criminals and assorted sociopaths roam freely and unimpeded.
In Professor Dettlaff’s imaginings, a world without physical consequences for robbery and predation would mean “individuals have everything they need to thrive.” Except, of course, any third-party protection from the aforementioned habitual criminals and assorted sociopaths. This “new, liberated society,” in which policing has been “firmly disavowed,” will, he insists, “truly keep us safe.”
Progressive “thought leader” is offended by an occasional request for evidence.
On Sex-Swapping Bond
We’re also told, “A gendered spin on the character can open up more potential for exploring Bond’s individuality.” And this exploration of the character’s individuality will apparently be achieved by erasing a rather fundamental aspect of the character – his maleness – and replacing him with an entirely different person of a different sex.
Readers are invited to ponder whether similar transitions might enrich the character of, say, Miss Marple, who, via similar logic, could be depicted as male, and as always having been male. Thereby exploring her individuality.
Answers on a postcard, please.
Mama Needs Her Hit
Ah, but “highly gendered” and “offspring-focussed” health care – for pregnant women and their babies – makes it “challenging” for sexually dysmorphic women who wish to be perceived as men, even while heavily pregnant. In short, “Screw the wellbeing of the baby, the inhibited lactation, and the risk of serious birth defects. Just jack me up on testosterone and refer to me as Sir.”
I paraphrase, of course. But nowhere near as much as one might hope.
On the unspeakable; on pronoun leverage; and on “queered” health care.
My Salary? Oh, Pay It Whenever…
I think we can assume that madam’s professed “time blindness” – which apparently precludes the use of the reminder function on her phone – doesn’t result in her turning up for work early, or accidentally working extra hours. Or being in any way more useful or helpful, or less self-involved.
I think we can assume that with some confidence.