Posted on 05/03/2022 4:32:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
The West has gone through many eras — the so-called Dark Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Age and the Post-Modern. The present era is the Age of the Absurd.
In terms of the absurdities the cultural elites believe, and have convinced masses of people to believe, there has never been a time like today.
Here is a list of the most ridiculous that immediately come to mind.
No. 1: Men give birth.
Heading the list has to be the radical redefinition — indeed, denial of — sex and gender, leading to such reality-defying statements as "men give birth," "men menstruate," "birthing person" instead of "mother," and to the Disney theme parks no longer greeting visitors as "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls."
No. 2: It is fair to allow biological men to compete in women's sports.
We are supposed to believe that biological men do not have an innate physical advantage in competing against women. This is asserted as truth by every Ivy League university, virtually every other university, most high schools and by virtually all the elite media.
No. 3: Defund police and crime will decrease.
We are supposed to believe that with fewer police we will have less violent crime. Any 10-year-old recognizes the sentiment as absurd.
No. 4: Racial segregation is antiracist. Opposition to racial segregation is racist.
Columbia University and many other universities have all-black dormitories and all-black graduations. They maintain that race-based segregation is not racist. Opposition to it is.
No. 5: "Latinx."
Because human sexuality is "not binary," languages with gendered nouns must be neutered, leading to labeling Latinos "Latinx." That virtually no one from or living in Latin America uses this absurd word does not faze The New York Times or your local university.
No. 6: Your race matters.
One of the least important aspects of human beings is the color of their skin. It is no more important than the color of their shoes.
Its insignificance is easily demonstrated. If you know the color of a person's skin, do you know anything about the person? The answer, of course, is, no. If I know your race, I know nothing else about you. And if I think I can determine anything about you on the basis of your race, I am a racist.
No. 7: Diversity is strength — and the happiest countries in the world are Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
It is an axiom of the woke, the home of the absurd, that "diversity is our greatest strength." Yet, The New York Times, the leading media voice of the Age of the Absurd, featured an opinion piece about the happiest countries in the world. The second paragraph began, "Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland led the 2018 ranking of the World Happiness Report."
Not once did the Times or the writer note that the four "happiest" countries in the world are not at all diverse. In fact, they are among the least diverse countries in the Western world. They are almost entirely white, almost entirely Protestant Christian (or from a Protestant Christian background) and all their citizens speak the same language. America, on the other hand, is by far the most radical experiment in racial, religious and ethnic diversity.
No. 8: Free speech does not allow for hate speech.
"I'm for free speech, but not for hate speech" is the view of almost half of America's young people and virtually all its elites. So widespread is belief in the absurd that these people do not understand that the statement is self-contradictory. It renders the words "free speech" meaningless. By definition, free speech allows for hate speech. If it doesn't, "free speech" means nothing more than speech with which one agrees.
No. 9: You're not a human being until you're born.
There is no need to believe in God or in any religion to understand the absurdity of this assertion. If we are not human beings until birth, what are we five minutes — or five months — prior to birth, when we have a heartbeat and brain waves? Nonhuman?
No. 10: Capitalism is evil.
Abject poverty has been the norm for nearly all people throughout history. Yet, in the last century alone, billions of people have been lifted out of poverty. And there is only one reason: capitalism.
No. 11: America is systemically racist.
The manifest absurdity of this claim is easily demonstrated. In the past decades, more than three million black people have immigrated to America from Africa and the Caribbean. And probably tens of millions more would like to. Are all these people fools — choosing to move to a systemically racist country? Are they ignorant — unaware that America is systemically racist?
The non-absurd know the answers: all these blacks are neither fools nor ignorant. They know how lucky they are to move to America — because this country is so tolerant and so overwhelmingly non-racist. People don't move to countries that hate them. No Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s.
We live in the Age of the Absurd. The only question is, why? I think I know the answer and will discuss it in a future column. In the meantime, share these 11 absurdities with friends and relatives, especially with those who actually think they make sense.
Number 12. The border is secure.
Number 13. Abortion is women’s health.
Number 14. Illegal aliens are good for the economy and we need more workers.
Number 15. The oceans are rising.
Number 16. Inflation is transitory.
Number 17. Quit lying to my face you stinkin commies.
for the first time in recent history, significant amounts of the population have never had to survive or a need to seek out the actual truth. So their perception of reality is ABSURD. hence why we are living in the age of the absurd.
the coming food shortage, energy blackouts, etc..... will put a dose of reality into MILLIONS of people. The entire industrialized world is in for one hell of a ride.
Number 18. Bugs are a good source of protein.
This is not true.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was more diverse, with German and Hungarian minority nobilities ruling large populations of Czechs, Slovaks, Ruthenians, Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians, and Italians with a variety of religious and linguistic variations.
18: Only white Americans need to pay reparations for slavery, not those in other countries.
19: Mostly peaceful demonstrations in 2020 BLM summer burndowns were followed by incredibly violent riot on the capital insurrection.
“The Austro-Hungarian Empire was more diverse, with German and Hungarian minority nobilities ruling large populations of Czechs, Slovaks, Ruthenians, Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians, and Italians”
America has fAmilies representing all of them and dozens never included in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well. From Africa alone America has folks from Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, South Africa, Kenya, Liberia, Somalia, Morocco, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone and Sudan (and a few others). America has citizens and immigrants from every nation in Asia, Every nation in the Middle East, every nation in Latin America and every nation in Europe, including both Russia and Ukraine.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire may have been ethnically rich from a European point of view but it was no America.
In the US, the European ethnic groups have intermarried and assimilated and largely lost their ethnic identities. So their is a largely uniform white majority and Blacks (13%) and Hispanics (18%) as the major minority ethnic groups. Blacks have some solidarity, although recent immigrants from Africa or the West Indies are definitely different from ex-slave US blacks. Hispanics and Asians come from a variety of cultures and countries.
So in contrast to Austria-Hungary, where there were several well-defined ethnic groups with strong religious and linguistic identities, The US has only one significant minority group and a large set of small splinter groups who tend towards cultural and linguistic assimilation after a couple generations.
“So in contrast to Austria-Hungary, where there were several well-defined ethnic groups”
Nonsense; you keep denying and underplaying the many subcultures in the U.S. Visit many large east coast and midwest cities and you’ll still find tons of Italians, Germans, Irish, and others of European extraction that largely marry and have social and religious life with others of the same European extraction. The same is true for many groups of Asians, from Japanese, Korean, Philippino, Chinese and other Asians including Indians, Pakistanis and many from the Middle East and Africa. Many of these groups not only have strong ethnic identities but, often retain the families linguistic heritage in the family and have varied and strong religious identies as well.
If there is any one key difference it is that unlike in the Austro-Hungarian Empire the ethnic and religious mix in the Empire was also geographically less mixed than it is the U.S., with the different identities in the Empire each concerntrated more in one part of the Empire than another. In that regard the Empire aas less a generalized mix ethnic and religious groups and more a geographic concentration of different groups in different places.
https://brilliantmaps.com/united-states-austria/
not sure if it’s reached the bond-villian level of conscious planning yet, but there is a definite whiff of that khmer rouge lets-just-ship-everyone-out mentality in the air.
i’ve said it before on here and i’ll say it again—the 2020’s are going to be the most world changing and bloodiest decade since the 1940’s.
The world is going to be a hell of a lot different in January 2030, then it was in January 2020. And I doubt it will be prettier.
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