Some white pills on trans mass shooter and, "why the TN cops had a better response than the Uvalde, TX cops"
Steve Sailer: I suspect that the Nashville cops discussed amongst themselves the shameful response of the Uvalde cops. Perhaps they decided they weren't going to be those guys.
Dadmode Rick: My wife is a teacher and the cops had a meeting with the whole school staff a while ago where they said "what happened in Uvalde will not happen here." A lot of cops around country feel a sense of embarrassment over how the Uvalde cops acted.
These cops at least felt ties to their community and their people and promised them, "it will not happen around here" and then they delivered by acting heroically moving forward into danger to end that danger
This made me cry. I have seen people losing their basic humanity in my own lifetime. I grew up in one of the worst parts of Belfast during the Troubles; sectarian murders were a part of life. But the stuff that goes on now...I honestly think we are living with demons. Recently, for the first time, I have understood a friend’s decision not to have children as she ‘didn’t want to bring a child into this world’. She didn’t want the fear of what might happen to them when she is no longer there to protect them. I have a strong Christian faith and that teaches me that we must prevail, but at times it is hard when you know that things are only getting worse. God bless everyone.
One of your best yet, Morgoth. I hope this monologue gets the traction it deserves.
I think you are mistaken in assuming that empathy is lacking among the awful. Empathy is a *requirement* for cruelty. One must be able to accurately map the internal emotional landscape of another person in order to find the best place to twist the knife, otherwise all attempts to make another's life a misery would be slipshod and haphazard. As you have pointed out in a past essay on malice vs incompetence, the direction of policy and culture only goes in one direction. Empathy makes cruelty's high success rate possible.
Your terrier sees rats and rabbits as prey. No possible concord can exist between predator and prey, there will never be an emotional handshake that acknowledges the other as worthy of consideration; the predator would starve if this was so, the divide is utterly fundamental. The division of people into predator and prey is a wartime phenomenon, when hearts are hardened for slaughter. Between political factions, we can look to uniforms and flags to see where the line is drawn. In a culture war, we must look to who is praised and who is vilified. The innocent, the kind and the loving are all on the receiving end of the cruelty from the degenerate, the powerful and the wicked.
I remember the Channel 4 handover clips that showed a chaotic landscape that resolved into the coherent image of a 4 when the camera moved into a very specific location (https://youtu.be/1qB1rtXwhrA?t=11). Literally nothing in the image makes sense until you're in the right place. The process of ontological evil manifesting in society is entirely coherent if Christianity is the Truth.
I'm enjoying this so far (I'm just over halfway through) but a particular example comes to mind. I was on the phone to my daughter yesterday evening and she mentioned a book 'How to Kill Men and Get Away with it'. I would assume this to be quite tongue-in-cheek and when I began to say "erm....hang on..." she anticipated my protest and quickly said "it's ok, they're horrible men". So there you have a book which 'jokes' about killing men and (leaving aside the obvious comparison of releasinga book about killing women) if my daughter is representative of the target reader - the idea can be justified because they're 'horrible men'.
I am thinking more often now, that it's yet another result of a liberal society where anyone can do whatever they want without accountability or responsibility, provided it's for the greater good. This is of course, whatever 'they' want it to be. "Yeah, let's prolong the war in Ukraine and nuke the Russians because - Putin bad" or "lets kills babies in the womb because - ... womens rights" etc. I honestly think humans are not quite as civilised as most would like to believe. It doesn't take long before a human can become quite prepared to kill another human for some cause (or other) and not lose any sleep over it. It's the recognition of that that sets us apart from the animals, but the left does not seem to want to acknowledge this.
Thank you for this, these are very dark times but they won’t go away simply because we try not to look at them. In America a school shooting usually dominates t even our ADD media for weeks but not this one- you would hardly know it happened. And if you did you wouldn’t know that this was a person long out of school who had not been “terrorized” by Christian school, or Christian anything for a very long time. Only the New York Post and a few other conservative outlets are willing to publicize this as well as other inconvenient events,
The single most chilling and definitive line in your video was the reference to the shooter and others like her as “automatons”. That is precisely what they are, the creatures of social media and the most highly approved behaviors of the times. They are soulless. They have resigned all agency to procure more “likes” from strangers. The ones who are truly mentally ill, and their numbers increase daily thanks to the unnatural society we live in, are completely unmoored from empathy or any human emotion, and once they label themselves with gender dysphoria they are not longer candidates for mental health treatment, you couldn’t possibly be both transgender and psychotic could you?
Is anyone behind this growing army of automatons or is it just serendipitous?
This culture is broken, as I've said many times before. If you took a man from 100 years ago and were able to somehow bring him forward in time to today, he'd feel like he'd stepped into a nightmare. Gibbering maniacs wandering the streets, most of the population hooked on prescription meds, booze or illicit drugs just to avoid toppling into despair. A dizzying mix of foreigners from a hundred different countries living in our cities. Vile pornography freely available on tiny computers carried about by nearly everyone on the planet. Men dressed as freakish caricatures of women parading about in front of children. It's madness. It's no wonder people snap occasionally.
Of course here in America with our execrable politicians before the bodies cooled they were already trying to use it to score political points. Stupid left wing politicians tried to turn this into a call to ban certain guns. As though any thinking person examines this story and comes.away with "you know the real problem here is WHAT SHE USED TO COMMIT HER EVIL ACT." Imagine! If I came home to find that one of my kids had.gone into my tool set, grabbed a hammer, and used it to beat the dog to death. How absurd and wrong-headed would it be for me to immediately be concerned with how he got the hammer, and that perhaps they should be locked up. My concern was not that perhaps something is deeply wrong with my kid that he'd be willing to do such a thing.
Self confessed conspiracy theorist here, I was brought up without a television ( hippie boomer parents) and then just missed the computer game hook, I would go to friends houses and watch TV or watch others play games and would flinch and feel physically sick at the violence that they would just sit and watch without emotion. I think that the lack of empathy and decency has not just slipped in I think that these last two generations have been purposefully desensitised all part of the agenda. I know this is not a popular opinion but the fact is that children who are brought up by narcissists and sociopaths and see regular violence usually end up detached from emotions and you could argue that the last few generations have been brought up by violent narcissistic media and no real parental love. I know most of us feel like we can separate real life from fiction but I’d say we don’t fully understand the repercussions of exposure to fictional violence.
Even I was taken aback (doesn't often happen these days) after the trans murderer struck when the Biden administration came out and straight away said "our thoughts are with the lbgtq community"...like the darkest macabre comedy sketch (even 'jam' on channel 4 back in the day wouldn't have gone that far).
Like the white beatings/killings too...every time you think "surely now they can't excuse this, they must admit there's an issue" but low and behold (as you've said before) power always finds a way to keep on top of the narrative.
I think Covid lockdowns accelerated the dehumanization of others and the desperate desire to scapegoat someone for their fear and dilation (of course their hatred was directed at the anti-lockdowners and not the authorities who overreacted). Another aspect that came to mind was that I’ve always had empathy toward those who would be considered NPC’s. I’ve just felt sorry that they are unable to fork their own opinions or to care much for objective truth. However, they can be made easily not to show any empathy for us or for the free thinkers who question narratives. They would be the ones loading us up into cattle cars. The saddest realization is that the horrors we now see on social media have been going far far back. A popular twitter thread covers an ethnographer who tracked the violence and malicious lack of any humanity in the fall of an American city in the late 70’s due to Urban Youth. You might like to take a look: https://twitter.com/GodCloseMyEyes/status/1414619671056297984?cxt=HHwWgMC5mZHG3qEnAAAA
I think content on the internet has desensitised people to a lot of nasty experiences and events. In the past, the overwhelming majority would never be exposed to such trauma. Only those working in certain occupations would be exposed to the gore, macabre and evil that is an unfortunate and unpleasant part of their work. It's having a very deleterious effect on people's outlook on life. This is being exploited by some very sinister people and politics is the vehicle used to impact people's lives.
Even I was taken aback (doesn't often happen these days) after the trans murderer struck when the Biden administration came out and straight away said "our thoughts are with the lbgtq community"...like the darkest macabre comedy sketch (even 'jam' on channel 4 back in the day wouldn't have gone that far).
Like the white beatings/killings too...every time you think "surely now they can't excuse this, they must admit there's an issue" but low and behold (as you've said before) power always finds a way to keep on top of the narrative.
There was and still is a lot of this with the "particular medical treatments." I lost the job I had at the time over it, and when I told this to a longtime friend, albeit a friend I had been growing apart from very slowly (he became a heavy Reddit user and very strictly conforms to the allowed opinions on that site, and he brings them up a lot even with people he's just met), he was smiling as I was telling him about what had happened and thought it was funny. The total lack of empathy is what really surprised me, and still does if I'm being honest. If this is how they act to someone who at least used to be a friend, imagine how much worse they could be to a stranger.
Some white pills on trans mass shooter and, "why the TN cops had a better response than the Uvalde, TX cops"
Steve Sailer: I suspect that the Nashville cops discussed amongst themselves the shameful response of the Uvalde cops. Perhaps they decided they weren't going to be those guys.
Dadmode Rick: My wife is a teacher and the cops had a meeting with the whole school staff a while ago where they said "what happened in Uvalde will not happen here." A lot of cops around country feel a sense of embarrassment over how the Uvalde cops acted.
These cops at least felt ties to their community and their people and promised them, "it will not happen around here" and then they delivered by acting heroically moving forward into danger to end that danger
This made me cry. I have seen people losing their basic humanity in my own lifetime. I grew up in one of the worst parts of Belfast during the Troubles; sectarian murders were a part of life. But the stuff that goes on now...I honestly think we are living with demons. Recently, for the first time, I have understood a friend’s decision not to have children as she ‘didn’t want to bring a child into this world’. She didn’t want the fear of what might happen to them when she is no longer there to protect them. I have a strong Christian faith and that teaches me that we must prevail, but at times it is hard when you know that things are only getting worse. God bless everyone.
One of your best yet, Morgoth. I hope this monologue gets the traction it deserves.
I think you are mistaken in assuming that empathy is lacking among the awful. Empathy is a *requirement* for cruelty. One must be able to accurately map the internal emotional landscape of another person in order to find the best place to twist the knife, otherwise all attempts to make another's life a misery would be slipshod and haphazard. As you have pointed out in a past essay on malice vs incompetence, the direction of policy and culture only goes in one direction. Empathy makes cruelty's high success rate possible.
Your terrier sees rats and rabbits as prey. No possible concord can exist between predator and prey, there will never be an emotional handshake that acknowledges the other as worthy of consideration; the predator would starve if this was so, the divide is utterly fundamental. The division of people into predator and prey is a wartime phenomenon, when hearts are hardened for slaughter. Between political factions, we can look to uniforms and flags to see where the line is drawn. In a culture war, we must look to who is praised and who is vilified. The innocent, the kind and the loving are all on the receiving end of the cruelty from the degenerate, the powerful and the wicked.
I remember the Channel 4 handover clips that showed a chaotic landscape that resolved into the coherent image of a 4 when the camera moved into a very specific location (https://youtu.be/1qB1rtXwhrA?t=11). Literally nothing in the image makes sense until you're in the right place. The process of ontological evil manifesting in society is entirely coherent if Christianity is the Truth.
I'm enjoying this so far (I'm just over halfway through) but a particular example comes to mind. I was on the phone to my daughter yesterday evening and she mentioned a book 'How to Kill Men and Get Away with it'. I would assume this to be quite tongue-in-cheek and when I began to say "erm....hang on..." she anticipated my protest and quickly said "it's ok, they're horrible men". So there you have a book which 'jokes' about killing men and (leaving aside the obvious comparison of releasinga book about killing women) if my daughter is representative of the target reader - the idea can be justified because they're 'horrible men'.
I am thinking more often now, that it's yet another result of a liberal society where anyone can do whatever they want without accountability or responsibility, provided it's for the greater good. This is of course, whatever 'they' want it to be. "Yeah, let's prolong the war in Ukraine and nuke the Russians because - Putin bad" or "lets kills babies in the womb because - ... womens rights" etc. I honestly think humans are not quite as civilised as most would like to believe. It doesn't take long before a human can become quite prepared to kill another human for some cause (or other) and not lose any sleep over it. It's the recognition of that that sets us apart from the animals, but the left does not seem to want to acknowledge this.
Thank you for this, these are very dark times but they won’t go away simply because we try not to look at them. In America a school shooting usually dominates t even our ADD media for weeks but not this one- you would hardly know it happened. And if you did you wouldn’t know that this was a person long out of school who had not been “terrorized” by Christian school, or Christian anything for a very long time. Only the New York Post and a few other conservative outlets are willing to publicize this as well as other inconvenient events,
The single most chilling and definitive line in your video was the reference to the shooter and others like her as “automatons”. That is precisely what they are, the creatures of social media and the most highly approved behaviors of the times. They are soulless. They have resigned all agency to procure more “likes” from strangers. The ones who are truly mentally ill, and their numbers increase daily thanks to the unnatural society we live in, are completely unmoored from empathy or any human emotion, and once they label themselves with gender dysphoria they are not longer candidates for mental health treatment, you couldn’t possibly be both transgender and psychotic could you?
Is anyone behind this growing army of automatons or is it just serendipitous?
This culture is broken, as I've said many times before. If you took a man from 100 years ago and were able to somehow bring him forward in time to today, he'd feel like he'd stepped into a nightmare. Gibbering maniacs wandering the streets, most of the population hooked on prescription meds, booze or illicit drugs just to avoid toppling into despair. A dizzying mix of foreigners from a hundred different countries living in our cities. Vile pornography freely available on tiny computers carried about by nearly everyone on the planet. Men dressed as freakish caricatures of women parading about in front of children. It's madness. It's no wonder people snap occasionally.
Of course here in America with our execrable politicians before the bodies cooled they were already trying to use it to score political points. Stupid left wing politicians tried to turn this into a call to ban certain guns. As though any thinking person examines this story and comes.away with "you know the real problem here is WHAT SHE USED TO COMMIT HER EVIL ACT." Imagine! If I came home to find that one of my kids had.gone into my tool set, grabbed a hammer, and used it to beat the dog to death. How absurd and wrong-headed would it be for me to immediately be concerned with how he got the hammer, and that perhaps they should be locked up. My concern was not that perhaps something is deeply wrong with my kid that he'd be willing to do such a thing.
Self confessed conspiracy theorist here, I was brought up without a television ( hippie boomer parents) and then just missed the computer game hook, I would go to friends houses and watch TV or watch others play games and would flinch and feel physically sick at the violence that they would just sit and watch without emotion. I think that the lack of empathy and decency has not just slipped in I think that these last two generations have been purposefully desensitised all part of the agenda. I know this is not a popular opinion but the fact is that children who are brought up by narcissists and sociopaths and see regular violence usually end up detached from emotions and you could argue that the last few generations have been brought up by violent narcissistic media and no real parental love. I know most of us feel like we can separate real life from fiction but I’d say we don’t fully understand the repercussions of exposure to fictional violence.
Brilliant summation of the state of things.
Even I was taken aback (doesn't often happen these days) after the trans murderer struck when the Biden administration came out and straight away said "our thoughts are with the lbgtq community"...like the darkest macabre comedy sketch (even 'jam' on channel 4 back in the day wouldn't have gone that far).
Like the white beatings/killings too...every time you think "surely now they can't excuse this, they must admit there's an issue" but low and behold (as you've said before) power always finds a way to keep on top of the narrative.
I think Covid lockdowns accelerated the dehumanization of others and the desperate desire to scapegoat someone for their fear and dilation (of course their hatred was directed at the anti-lockdowners and not the authorities who overreacted). Another aspect that came to mind was that I’ve always had empathy toward those who would be considered NPC’s. I’ve just felt sorry that they are unable to fork their own opinions or to care much for objective truth. However, they can be made easily not to show any empathy for us or for the free thinkers who question narratives. They would be the ones loading us up into cattle cars. The saddest realization is that the horrors we now see on social media have been going far far back. A popular twitter thread covers an ethnographer who tracked the violence and malicious lack of any humanity in the fall of an American city in the late 70’s due to Urban Youth. You might like to take a look: https://twitter.com/GodCloseMyEyes/status/1414619671056297984?cxt=HHwWgMC5mZHG3qEnAAAA
I think content on the internet has desensitised people to a lot of nasty experiences and events. In the past, the overwhelming majority would never be exposed to such trauma. Only those working in certain occupations would be exposed to the gore, macabre and evil that is an unfortunate and unpleasant part of their work. It's having a very deleterious effect on people's outlook on life. This is being exploited by some very sinister people and politics is the vehicle used to impact people's lives.
Brilliant summation of the state of things.
Even I was taken aback (doesn't often happen these days) after the trans murderer struck when the Biden administration came out and straight away said "our thoughts are with the lbgtq community"...like the darkest macabre comedy sketch (even 'jam' on channel 4 back in the day wouldn't have gone that far).
Like the white beatings/killings too...every time you think "surely now they can't excuse this, they must admit there's an issue" but low and behold (as you've said before) power always finds a way to keep on top of the narrative.
There was and still is a lot of this with the "particular medical treatments." I lost the job I had at the time over it, and when I told this to a longtime friend, albeit a friend I had been growing apart from very slowly (he became a heavy Reddit user and very strictly conforms to the allowed opinions on that site, and he brings them up a lot even with people he's just met), he was smiling as I was telling him about what had happened and thought it was funny. The total lack of empathy is what really surprised me, and still does if I'm being honest. If this is how they act to someone who at least used to be a friend, imagine how much worse they could be to a stranger.