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Kunstler: Lost in Translation
Saturdays, when fewer eyeballs see the paper, The New York Times likes to publish its most extreme ventures into social unreality. Last week’s prank was the story at the top of page one that declared: #WontBeErased: Transgender People and Allies Mobilize Against Trump Administration Proposal. (The accompanying photo featured a rainbow flag, of course, denoting that there was a pot-of-gold awaiting true believers.) This was a response to a Trump administration policy memo calling for “strict definition of gender based on a person’s genitalia at birth,” The Times said.
The dishonesty at work here ought to impress those observing the slow-motion collapse of culture in the USA. The political Left has taken its lessons in the abuse of language straight from the campus “post-structuralist” workshops, where novelties of narcissism get churned out by striving grad students in the ceaseless pursuit of cutting edge prestige (and academic career advancement). The game is to produce a never-ending chain of self-referential, status-enhancing world-views as a replacement for consensual reality. The more “marginalized” one can claim to be, the more deserving of high status (including tenure, grants for attending echo-chamber conferences and symposia, and a claque of attending assistants to actually teach those pain-in-the-ass classes). The goal is to get to feel special, and especially deserving of special privileges based on special grievances.
The net effect is to destroy whatever remains of an American common culture, to divide and conquer the polity in the hope that society might advance into a state with no rules and no boundaries — except for whatever capricious actions the “Progressive” authorities might choose, based on how they feel at any particular time. It must be obvious that this all comes down to a vicious sort of sentimentality. It’s exactly what turned the governments of the Bolsheviks and the Nazis into killing machines. It’s Kafka’s nightmare of the murderous bureaucratic state that disposes with the rule-of-law.
I suspect that neither The New York Times nor the Democratic Party actually cares about so-called transgender people, who are merely being used as stalking horses to provoke conflict. The Left’s main beef these days is that Mr. Trump is in the White House, signifying that Daddy’s in the House, an intolerable condition. The Left is desperate to get rid of that particular Daddy and Daddyism per se and altogether. Daddyism represents rules and boundaries. The Left prefers chaos. It’s clearly a juvenile disposition, since that point-of-view fails to apprehend that the universe is chaotic enough without additional help from them. And they are still in despair over the failure of “mommy” (HRC) and her disappearance into the darkling woods of political ignominy.
The rule at hand is that the word gender is not a substitute for the word sex, and that in the world of real things, you don’t actually get to declare what sex you are. You can engage in all kinds of behaviors, such as enjoying intimate relations with members of your same sex. You can pretend to be a member of the opposite sex. In statistically very rare instances, you can come into this world with genital abnormalities that present developmental problems, but most of the people currently pretending to some kind of “intersex” status do not fall into that category. The game of pretend can be very personally intense, I’m sure. But it’s still just a game of pretend.
I propose the perhaps novel idea that there is a place for everything and that the correct place for the marginal is… on the margins! The argument lately, especially on the Progressive side, has been that the marginal ought to occupy the center (of American life). That is surely the argument of The New York Times. It is a foolish and even dangerous argument, popular only with those determined that the center should not hold. In the process, they have come close to replacing the political center with a black hole. Now they want to drag the country across the event horizon into what they hope is a transhuman paradise of rainbows and unicorns. I wouldn’t be so sure that awaits us there.
27 Comments on "Kunstler: Lost in Translation"
Dredd on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 12:54 pm
“It’s exactly what turned the governments of the Bolsheviks and the Nazis into killing machines”
Actually, that was just another despotic minority giving birth to a despotic leader who had the same tyrannical vision that they had (On The Origin of Tyranny).
Dooma on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 4:11 pm
“The Left is desperate to get rid of that particular Daddy and Daddyism per se and altogether. Daddyism represents rules and boundaries.”
Um, could people want to get rid of Trump because of this trade war he started?
It has the potential to blow up in his face.
green_achers on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 5:10 pm
Kunsler long ago became a joke on account of his prognostications that have never failed to be wrong. Now that he’s adopted “daring” and “politically incorrect” tirades against his imaginary culture enemies as his main stock-in-trade, I guess we have to keep listening to him, else we appear oppressive. Nice trick.
Sissyfuss on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 5:48 pm
Kuntski has abandoned his “Long Emergency” replacing it with a distemper for the sexually confused. This isn’t nearly as damaging as the Democrats abandoning the working stiffs for the sexually confused trying to get stiff. Methinks the Kunt protesteth too much and his mustache too gay.
makati1 on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 6:09 pm
JHK is pointing out the signs of the “Long Emergency”/collapse. The mental illness of today in America is one sign and it is rampant. We have a few examples on here who prove it every day with their immaturity and arrogant denial of reality.
Yes, there are people who claim to be different sexually than their body suggests. That has been true for millenia. The human psyches is not black and white but shades of gray.
Few of us are 100% masculine. Few of us are 100% feminine. Most of us are somewhere in between. But, to use that variation as a tool/club over others is not a positive. It is a sign of intolerance, mostly fed by religion.
I think JHK is still on track and, like most of us rational people, cannot understand how the collapse is being dragged out for so long. TPTB have to run out of cans to kick soon.
1-900-chicks-with-dicks on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 8:43 pm
Somebody needs to get laid. Maybe makati will be kind enough to give kunty a reach-around.
boney joe on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 11:31 pm
Forecasting the race for the House
Updated Oct. 22, 2018, at 8:26 PM
6 in 7 Chance Democrats win control (86.5%)
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/?ex_cid=midterms-header
Cloggie on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 1:03 am
Sometimes Kunstler wished he was just a Teuton.
In the process, they have come close to replacing the political center with a black hole. Now they want to drag the country across the event horizon into what they hope is a transhuman paradise of rainbows and unicorns. I wouldn’t be so sure that awaits us there.
USSR-2.0 is next, if you do not resist the left.
Cloggie on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 1:06 am
Forecasting the race for the House
Updated Oct. 22, 2018, at 8:26 PM
6 in 7 Chance Democrats win control (86.5%)
Yeah, I remember these statistics from November 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJvYdX4GKM
boney joe on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 2:03 am
Clogged:
“Yeah, I remember these statistics from November 2016.”
Really, I don’t. Would you please refresh my memory with links to those remembrances of yours on the 2016 House race.
joe on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 8:59 am
Cloggie is reminding you not to believe poll numbers. In the modern world people are quick to offer an opinion but less quick to do anything about it. Voter turn out is dropping, barely getting much over 50% in Europe and falling for presidential turnout in America per election . Democracy is on the downward trend. With the portion of minorities rising few of them have voting rights fewer still excersise them if they do, European and White Americans are looking at their political figures squander fortunes. Brexit itself a result of the ‘democratic deficit’ in the EU and nature of the EUSSR itself mixed with apathy about the globalist ambitions and agenda of the EUSSR. Basically we give more of a shit about some Saudi Islamic Brotherhood member that was chopped up by barbarians than the ACTUAL collapse of our own democratic systems. The centralisation of wealth into the higher peak of the pyramid is probobly the main cause. Trump is only the begining of what’s coming, not the end.
Cloggie on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 3:04 pm
Italian infrastructure update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYoZoKtWFZg
First the bridge, now the escalator.
Cloggie on Wed, 24th Oct 2018 1:12 am
King Willem-Alexander (“Willy”) indirectly attacks Brexit in British parliament:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6309717/QUENTIN-LETTS-Dutch-king-state-visit-gushed-EU-parliament-barely-40-MPs.html
Cloggie on Thu, 25th Oct 2018 1:05 am
Italy, financially the least problematic country in the West.
State debt: €2.1 trillion
24 million households
87.500 euro state debt per household, which is peanuts.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/614772/outstanding-residential-mortgage-lending-italy-europe/
Sum of all mortages: only 400 billion or 17k/household!!!!!
Reduction state debt of now 131% GDP to 91% is 35k euro/household
Solution Italian state debt: forced mortgage 35k euro.
It is high time to make these Italian tax dodgers pay!!
The Italian debt problem is created by Italians, should be paid for by Italians and they can, with two fingers in the nose!
The EU should finance. 800 billion new mortgages for Italy and all problems would be solved. This requires politicians with a backbone.
The alternative: Italy leaving the euro and return to their shabby Lira, with 10% inflation per year, as an indirect tax, to compensate for lax Italian tax morals. Little warning: the Italians can reintroduce the Lira, but outside Italy nobody will accept that toilet paper, meaning that Italy will be stuck with the euro regardless for foreign payments, just like even Switzerland is stuck with the euro.
Take that, Zerohedge! LOL
Arrivederci!
Davy on Thu, 25th Oct 2018 5:25 am
Italy, financially the least problematic country in the West.
Keep telling yourself this neder. You need Italy to remain in your euroland empire fantasy. At least you are aware that euroland cannot survive the loss of Italy. That much reality has sunk in. The problem is your fantasy of a powerful Italy financially does not fit the reality of the imbalances that have created and the fact that this imbalances are getting worse not better. A banking crisis is right around the corner and with it a threat to the very fabric of euroland. The north is looking at a huge haircut and they deserve it for exploiting the south and allowing this behavior to happen in the first place.
Arrivederci!
Cloggie on Thu, 25th Oct 2018 5:46 am
The usual meaningless davy post, full with abstractions like “imbalances”, and ignoring the quantitative data I give him.
“At least you are aware that euroland cannot survive the loss of Italy.”
Nowhere do I say that, you imbecile. I said that even a lira-Italy cannot escape the euro. Last week the Italian government has confirmed it intends to stay in the EU and euro. Their populations would not let them even try. If we would have a second recerendum in the UK today, Remain would likely win, unfortunately.
In the end of the day Italy is irrelevant. Key to white survival are France, Germany and Russia and, indirectly, China.
Anglos and their kosher owners are one giant minus. Fortunately they are in racial meltdown. In addition pull the dollar reserve currency rug from under their feet and an implosion is guaranteed.
Davy on Thu, 25th Oct 2018 6:01 am
“The usual meaningless davy post, full with abstractions like “imbalances”, and ignoring the quantitative data I give him.”
Neder, plays the game that I have not offered the real story in multiple articles.
“Nowhere do I say that, you imbecile. “
Sure you have dummy. Don’t you remember the article you posted where Junkers says the Euro will not survive without Italy and Italy will not survive without the Euro??
“I said that even a lira-Italy cannot escape the euro. Last week the Italian government has confirmed it intends to stay in the EU and euro.”
Sure, neder, who is the Italian government now. Right, governing is a moving target in Italy. If and when a banking crisis hits Italy and Europe the talk will be all over the place in a financial crisis that could take down the Euro.
“In the end of the day Italy is irrelevant. Key to white survival are France, Germany and Russia and, indirectly, China.”
Back to Nazi racism again. Business is business neder, get a grip. When the economy goes south so will your euroland stability. That will affect you more than your race problem which is forecast to get you in a few decades.
“Anglos and their kosher owners are one giant minus. Fortunately they are in racial meltdown. In addition pull the dollar reserve currency rug from under their feet and an implosion is guaranteed.”
Halfhearted deflection from the reality of what we are discussing. Sometimes reality is too hard for neder to argue.
Cloggie on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 1:38 am
“In the end of the day Italy is irrelevant. Key to white survival are France, Germany and Russia and, indirectly, China.”
Back to Nazi racism again
Here we have our ZOG-bot speaking again. “White survival” is a criminal endeavor, according to this fat idiot from the Ozarks, parroting his kosher oligarch owners. Not that anybody cares anymore what this fool, desperately clinging on to his s(t)inking empire like a passenger on the Titanic, has to say about what others should do, namely being obedient subjects of the empire. He doesn’t believe his own bullshit, as he already has prepared his escape route to Italy.
Davy on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 3:57 am
Neder, when you attack me like the above I can tell you are losing. I suspect I am in better shape than you are because you sit on your ass al day IT’ing so calling me fat maybe reflects your own weight frustrations. I do physical work and work out. My BMI is smack on for a 6’1” 180lbs man. I don’t like Jews or Israel but I am not an idiot Jew Baiter. My whole world does not revolve around the hatred of Jews like you and a-noise1. I am all for a multipolar world because with the problems we face it is a prerequisite to the cooperation that will be needed soon. The problem is getting from here to there. There is plenty of bad behavior on all sides and this board has extremist like you who only paint the ant-American one. How intelligent is that to preach about half of reality? That is self-serving and narrow minded and that is you nederliar. If I appear to support my country and people it is because we have a rabidly anti-American element on this board that needs moderation. This requires comment moderation and this is the reason you and billy whine so much. It is also the reason juanp, gregt, and or a-noise1 are being deviants and steeling my handle constantly. All of you extremist get very upset over comment moderation that neuters your extremist message. You are one of the worst neder when you preach your silly PBM pan-Eurasian nonsense that is not materializing. Instead your euroland is showing cracks and it could blow at any time.
Cloggie on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 9:24 pm
My heartfelt condolences go out to the libtard establishment, now that the MAGA-bomber (hilarious word, candidate word-of-the-year) turns out to be a darkie-for-Trump.LOL
makati1 on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 10:25 pm
Cloggie, Davy is the world’s number one hypocrite. Never sees the disaster that his own country is. Always pointing the finger of blame somewhere else when it should be pointed at himself and his collapsing, drugged up, suicidal, obese, insane country, the USSA.
Cloggie on Fri, 26th Oct 2018 11:37 pm
LandOfTheFree latest:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/megyn-kelly-nbc-streicht-sendung-today-der-starmoderatorin-a-1235448.html
Megan Kelly show cancelled because she opined that children making their faces black on Halloween is harmless, which is what it is. It would only be problematic if they would color their faces black AND wear a nose around their necks.
makati1 on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 1:00 am
Perhaps they could wear a Ku Klux Klan robe and carry a burning cross like their daddies? Nah! Too racist! Or is that the way America is headed…again?
Antius on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 2:07 am
“Megan Kelly show cancelled because she opined that children making their faces black on Halloween is harmless, which is what it is. It would only be problematic if they would color their faces black AND wear a nose around their necks.”
Yeah. The silly bitch then made the mistake of prostrating herself, apologising, holding an anti-racism conference abd generally shedding any dignity that she might have had left. And then they sacked her anyway.
I suppose it is easy for me to criticize. I am sitting here smug with a well paid professional job. If a poison dwarf decided to pull it out from under me, would I behave with dignity? I would like to think so. But probably not.
Antius on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 2:45 am
“Davy is the world’s number one hypocrite. Never sees the disaster that his own country is. Always pointing the finger of blame somewhere else when it should be pointed at himself and his collapsing, drugged up, suicidal, obese, insane country, the USSA.”
He is proud and cannot face up to the truth. The USA is run by people that do not give a shit about their own people, let alone the rest of the world. For the simple reason that they are not their own people. We all know who the US rulers really are; we have been through it enough times.
I reached my own moment of realisation about my own country a long time ago. Long ago, I stopped pretending that those in power were good people; that they were looking out for my best interests, or the interests of the British people. They are basically an extortion racket; run by self-interested civil servants, Marxist lunatics and international Jews.
I spend much of my free time doing what little I can trying to undermine these people and in doing so, help the British people escape from them. But the first step on the road to salvation is to stop pretending. One must accept the reality that they are a slave before they can take the first step on the road to freedom.
Cloggie on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 3:56 am
He is proud and cannot face up to the truth.
You are giving davy too much credit, he is not (ethnically) proud. He has the Soviet mentality: low on personal self-esteem but greatly enjoys to be part of a colossal terrorist bully that threatens/dominates the world. He quietly supports measures against Iran (“Sum” sock), that should be added to the empire in his view. He refuses to discuss history, because he very well understands my arguments that WW2 was nothing but a US-Soviet planetary power grab at the cost of Europe (with Britain the biggest geopolitical loser of them all). He doesn’t like third world mass immigration to the US (that is why he voted for Trump), but he cannot let go of this fake moral superiority vis-a-vis Europeans, who he loves calling fascists/natzis/racists. Davy is the quintessential ZOG-bot, totally complicit with the US deep state. He already regrets voting for Trump, now that davy sees, to his horror, that Trump America-First is busy dismantling his beloved empire.
But it is too late already, actually it is too late already for a decade or 2-3. Multi-ethnic societies function nowhere. They can exist (examples: UK, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium), provided that the ethnicities are clearly separated, geographically. And even then it is a constant battle over funds, “devolution” and what not.
But if you really begin to mix, like in North-America (“Indians”/multicult), Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, Kurdistan, Versailles Poland and the list goes on and on, the “experiment” invariably ends up in a drama and hundreds of thousands if not millions of people killed. But Americans like to think that they are “exceptional” and that general laws of history don’t apply to them.
Actually they do.
The Trump presidency essentially is the preparation of European-America to abandon the union, a completely rational step to take. Manifest Destiny in reverse gear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
And we continental Europeans should ensure that the escape attempt succeeds in exactly the same fashion as the American escape attempt from the British succeeded in 1776 albeit this time on a 100 times larger scale.
These two North-Americans openly say they are “proud Europeans”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6n9CX_NJFE
Fine. We are going to accept you as such and reincorporate you back into the European world, you could not sustain by yourself.
You are now learning what the Germans already understood in the nineteen-twenties, hundred years before you (and the Russians in fifties). Americans can be a little slow at times, although there were exceptions, those who perfectly understood what was going on:
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/speech.asp
The Soviet empire came done without a drop of blood spilled. The West will not fall apart that easily, unfortunately. Real drama is ahead and there is no escape from it.
Davy on Sat, 27th Oct 2018 5:13 am
“Cloggie, Davy is the world’s number one hypocrite.”
Billy, we are all hypocrites some worse than others. You are worse than others. Narcissist and intellectually binary people like you and neder are the worst.
“He is proud and cannot face up to the truth. The USA is run by people that do not give a shit about their own people, let alone the rest of the world.”
Antius, you are a smart guy on energy and engineering but your social sciences is shit. Racist are so narrow minded and delusional. You and neder are touchy too because your standards of your own selves are so high. You have such high regards for your own race in relation to others that this makes you naturally stuck on yourselves.
“You are giving davy too much credit, he is not (ethnically) proud. He has the Soviet mentality: low on personal self-esteem but greatly enjoys to be part of a colossal terrorist bully that threatens/dominates the world.”
BS, neder, I am proud of my German heritage. I lived there for a year and learned to speak functional German. We have a family tree going back to the 15th century. I bet you don’t even know squat about 3 generations back of your past.
“(“Sum” sock)”
The sum sock is you neder. Classic neder BS from you on that one. You don’t do a sock well.
“Davy is the quintessential ZOG-bot, totally complicit with the US deep state. He already regrets voting for Trump, now that davy sees, to his horror, that Trump America-First is busy dismantling his beloved empire.”
More stupid Jew shit out of the board Jew baiter. ZOG is an ugly force in America that disgusts me but what disgust me more is your Jew baiting Nazi racism. You are a disgusting white racist neder. There is nothing in life lower than a white Nazi racist. I am proud I voted for Trump and against the rabid dog Hillary. Hillary represent the corruption of the left taking our country down. I took a stand against it and for the constitution. There is many things I don’t like about Trump but taking down the ugly left is not one of them.