Wednesday, 26 July 2023
Physically fictional – yet socially real
Steven Tucker has a fine Mercator piece on impossible ideological illnesses
Pregnant with meaning: impossible ideological illnesses
Certain forms of mental illness can only exist within the bounds of certain specific cultural contexts.
It is quite clear that the current epidemic wave of transgenderism amongst Western youth is a kind of socially transmitted psychological disease, or ‘culture-bound syndrome’, for example, but one other even odder such culture-bound mental disorder in existence today is Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome (PPS).
Seemingly only known from a series of rural villages in West Bengal near Calcutta, and also in a few urban slums in New Delhi where such villagers have since migrated in search of work, the condition’s name is surely self-explanatory.
The whole piece is well worth reading as it delves into modern transgender politics, drawing compelling parallels with PPS and the absurd malleability of susceptible minds.
Mum's the word
We in the West may laugh at the gullibility of the PPS-believing villagers of West Bengal coming to unthinkingly accept the reality of physically impossible acts of gestation at the behest of self-interested figures of local social authority such as the bara ojhas. Yet we here in the developed world would seem to have acquired our own domestic equivalents recently, in the shape of media, political and medical authorities whose public propaganda in the name of trans-issues is also increasingly warping susceptible minds about the topic of pregnancy.
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On the subject of Mental Elf Ishoos the world is still an ignorant and barbarous place. It's hard to know what to say except "Be kind". The mutilation of bonkers teenagers is just the opposite.
I don't see how the mad boys and mad girls can give informed consent being both too young and too insane.
On the Overmighty State: this is rather good.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/26/were-the-lockdowners-and-vaccinators-really-just-trying-to-save-lives/
dearieme - that's it - mad boys and mad girls can't give informed consent and shouldn't be asked to give it. Do nothing irreversible should surely be the guiding principle.
Thanks for the Save Lives link, it's very good.
"For every area of policy the constellation of forces will be different, and nobody has any clear understanding of how the system works – not even the most powerful individuals in the midst of it all."
It's an angle I've been trying to shape into a general outlook on these kind of issues, but it isn't at all easy to summarise their vast complexity. I'm sure the writer is right in the sense that these things are much shallower than we tend to suppose and much more opaque. Hanging it on the mantra "Save Lives" is a good idea though, because that's the underlying narrative.
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