The Trans Issue is Not a Petty Culture War Clash – It is Everything
Trans ideology necessitates the abandonment of critical thinking, which is why it is so important to the establishment.
Imagine going back to the year 2010 and telling people that it would be controversial in 13 years to say that men can’t get pregnant. You’d get laughed back to the future. But here we are, nonetheless.
In 2023 the public consciousness of the progressive West has found a way to simultaneously believe that on the one hand women have been oppressed by men since the dawn of time, and as such need special treatment to make up for this, and on the other, that women must be silent and submissive toward men (providing that man declares himself either Trans or a Trans ally).
This spastic level of cognitive dissonance went on display for the world to see, in all its lurid glory, this past Saturday 25 March 2023, as British women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker was silenced, assaulted, and chased off by a rabid crowd of ‘trans rights activists’ in Auckland, New Zealand.
In George Orwell’s seminal novel 1984, he describes a phenomenon known as ‘doublethink’ which the Party uses to manipulate and control the people. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.
The term ‘Orwellian’ has become somewhat of a cliché in conservative discourse, such has been its saturation in recent years. But it is used for good reason – there is simply no other word for what we are witnessing. The derangement unfolding before our eyes is nothing less than Orwellian and the doublethink is entirely real.
Let me say it again: Throughout the West, chiefly in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, large and politically influential segments of the population simultaneously believe that women are victims of male oppression, and that women should be subservient to men.
This is literally crazy (to say nothing of the doublethink it must require to declare that a human being with a penis is a woman, and vice versa).
But this is the world we live in now – not a place of sanity and rational discourse, but of radically unhinged ideological doublethink.
At least, this is the world we in the West inhabit. To paraphrase a tweet I put out on Sunday morning: We are witnessing the proverbial Fall of Rome. The future belongs to China and Russia.
I was having a black pill moment, and well I might as I awoke to yet more bad news – that the Australian Labor Party had won the New South Wales state election, thus turning the entire continent red and guaranteeing an invigoration of woke globalist policy in what had been the one mainland state to hold out against the far left.
Coupled with yesterday’s disgusting scene in my former home Auckland, this got me thinking that perhaps it must all fall apart before it can be rebuilt. Maybe our society is too sick, and no longer worth saving. The cancer of woke has metastasised and our body politic is riddled. Maybe we just need to accept this and close the book on the West.
But the thing is, I do not believe that we of rational mind and reasoned discourse are in the minority. I believe in fact that we make up the bulk of the population. I believe these elections are being tampered with – I do not believe more than fifty percent of people want this garbage; I think the wokeism is astroturfed – I think it is a small vanguard of noisy people giving disproportionate weight to largely unpopular ideas; I think all the propaganda we’re being bombarded with is the last gasp of a withering tyranny, desperately clinging to power. And on my more hopeful days I believe that a new dawn may lie just beyond the horizon.
But then I look at the state of things and say – what does it matter if we are in the majority? Evil does not triumph through force of numbers but through the silence and inaction of those it seeks to dominate.
I oscillate between these two positions on a near daily basis and while this does not affect my will to fight, it does call into question what exactly we are fighting for.
Is it:
The preservation and resurrection of our past values in order to salvage the current system? (The standard conservative position) or;
Breaking away and building something separate and new? (The anarchist perspective)
An acquaintance saw my comment about China and Russia owning the future and challenged me, claiming that both these countries are headed for serious demographic and economic issues and that my reaction to “petty little culture issues” was hyperbolic.
To understand what is going on and why the Trans issue is important and not just a “petty little culture issue” we must understand what the Trans ‘movement’ really is.
In the final analysis, the Trans issue has nothing to do with what people colloquially understand as the Culture War. It is not about human rights, as the left would have it, nor even about degeneracy, as the conservatives fume. The Trans issue is the final summit in the dismantlement of the West’s collective ability to reason.
If they can get people to accept a doublethink notion so outrageous as to deny the single most fundamental reality of life – then they can get people to accept ANYTHING.
A populace that has surrendered its critical thinking so completely is the wet dream of every tyrant in history.
This is why the issue has become so topical, so enflamed, and so divisive. This is why the establishment is turning the volume all the way up on this seemingly frivolous issue. It is not petty – it is in fact the hill upon which Western civilisation will live or die.
I told the guy who challenged me – you shrug culture off as if it’s not important, but everything is downstream from culture, even the economy. These cultural issues represent the disintegration of our society by way of the dismantling of social norms; the removal of cornerstones such as gender roles and the family unit. Regardless of the economic and demographic issues faced by China and Russia, what faces the West is worse. We do not know who we are anymore; we have no shared values or norms; we celebrate weakness and degeneracy; we promote utopian fiction over facts.
The future belongs to cultures that breed strong men and cohesive families. China and Russia both do this. The entire West does precisely the opposite. And indeed, upon further consideration, we could add one more group my original statement: The future belongs to China, Russia, and Islam.
It is clear that there is an advanced psychological operation underway in the West to completely hobble our people’s ability to think critically. And in my estimation the process is near completion, for even those who do not blindly adhere to the woke dogma are, for the most part, too cowardly to speak against it – which in the end amounts to the same thing.
To what end are the banks, multinational corporations, and their puppet politicians engaged in this villainy? I tend toward the hypothesis that they wish to control and enslave us to mitigate the massive upheaval that would be inevitable in a free society when the catastrophic consequences of their gargantuan credit bubble finally hit.
Some have described it as a controlled demolition, which would make sense – dismantle democracy in the West, wipe out the troublesome middle class, turn the world into China, and then let China assume the new hegemony.
If indeed this is the plan, if it is a great conspiracy which everyone is in on, then what hope do we have of resurrecting the old West? It may be as I said: that the future belongs to China (and their new BFF Russia, and indeed the millions of young Muslim men who continue to populate Europe and the UK… and where next?) It may well be time to break away and start over. But where? How?
If on the other hand there is something more convoluted going on – a combination of craven greed, gross ineptitude, and public complacency born of intergenerational wealth and ubiquitous luxury – then we may have a fighting chance at saving our counties from the cancer of woke globalism.
Either way, left unchecked the result will be the same for the people of the West – the loss of our sovereignty, the loss of our freedoms, and the loss our identity.
Either way, the fact remains that the Trans issue is the final frontier in this struggle – it is a battle for our very minds.
The assault on our sanity has been a slow burn which began in earnest about a decade ago with the relatively simple issues of ‘toxic masculinity’ and racial ‘equity’. These issues did not require a wholesale denial of physical reality, merely a relativist’s ability to interpret things fancifully, and they warmed us up nicely with these exercises, slowly ratcheting up the intensity through the madness of the Trump years, twisting the dial into the red zone with Covid, and hitting the limiter now with the Trans lunacy.
Make no mistake, once this threshold is crossed there is no going back. If the people of the West can be successfully kowtowed into the blind doublethink of ‘trans rights’ (which really means Trans Supremacy) then we will have entered a realm of pure, unadulterated madness. And in such a realm, anything is possible.
In such a realm it will no longer matter what we know to be true, but only what the Party says on any given day – or as Orwell wrote:
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.