Recently on X someone posted a thing about how the Biden State Department had been very busy trying to make the maps gay.
You can’t say that sentence with a straight face. You also can’t read it with a straight face. It also wasn’t exactly what they were doing but what they were doing was both as ridiculous and more alarming.
You see, what they were doing was “queering the maps.” If you’re at all humanities adjacent, have a humanities degree taken in the last… oh, fifty years, or keep up with the insanity of academia, you know that “queering” encompasses gay, but isn’t exactly gay.
It’s more of a “turn everything upside down” type of thing, part of the absolute belief that if Western Society collapses Utopia ensues. This belief is both bizarre and widespread and is causing a lot — as in a lot — of suffering, death, cultural dissolution and horror the world over. For quite literally no good reason.
Before I get into it, let me explain what they LIKELY meant by “queering the maps.” You see, maps are weird things. Turns out it is really hard to translate a spherical (or really slightly pear shaped) object into a flat surface. This is why we have several methods of projection that give us the maps we’re familiar with. The important thing, when these maps were created being “To facilitate world navigation” in an era with no GPS or satelite guidance.
The thing is that at least according to the left, these maps give undo importance to Western countries. I saw this pass across my desk sometime during Barry the Red’s administrations, various academics agitating for weirdly distorted — compared to our familiar — maps that made places like South America and Africa MASSIVE and Europe and the US tiny.
Are they more accurate? I don’t know. I woke up late and I have a book to finish going over, a song to put to music, videos to make, another chapter of Orphans to write, a post to make on my substack, a few books to re-publish in updated format, Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped. My immune system is also in a life and death battle with con crud. So far keeping it at bay, but younger son and wife are both ill.
Anyway, again, keep in mind that an absolutely “accurate” map is near impossible given the fact the Earth is a (deformed) globe. And that the maps we had were useful and serviceable for people navigating the coasts and the spaces between, which is why we have them. That way.
Now try to imagine the minds that believe — absolutely believe — that the shit show in the third (and much of the would-be-first) world is because their countries aren’t “proportionately represented” in this flat projection which most of us study in schools and is only really important and relevant for life to navigators, pilots and the like. (And less so, in a time of GPS.) They heartily believe that at the heart of the cultural dysfunction and to put it mildly the failure to thrive of millions of people is…. that they felt humiliated when they looked at maps in elementary school.
In the history of projection, this one is a planet-sized IMAX. First word problems whose major trauma was being laughed at in elementary school think problems caused by tribalism, barbarism, dysfunctional culture, dysfunctional beliefs and, yes, Marxism (the worst ever colonial export) can be cured if we just make third worlders feel better about the size of their countries.
Okay, not just by that of course, but by the whole “Attack Western Culture” project, which includes making Muslims feel better about their contributions to science, making people in the west apologize for colonialism and evils that people that looked vaguely like them might or might not have perpetrated, making men more like women unless they tan interestingly, showing only mixed race couples on TV (don’t get me started) etc. etc. etc. including but not limited to a lot of counterproductive stuff like defining stuff that every country adopted once it entered full on into the industrial revolution — no, seriously. The adoption of these traits and how strong they are traces neatly to who went into the industrial revolution earlier. There are reasons for that, but I’ll spare you the essay — like punctuality, preciseness and schedule-keeping as colonialism and evil bad. Thereby cutting the however faint and nascent trends that could elevate the third world to first world living standards. Or at least eliminate a lot of the sh*t from the sh*tholes.
Anyway, if you dig hard enough at the roof of their belief in the evils of Western civilization, it lies “It makes people who aren’t part of it feel bad.”
Hence their absolute crazy cakes attempts — over and over and over again, including with unlimited mass immigration — to take down Western civilization. Because if it isn’t around to make people feel bad, surely other people will pull in the bits and create their own, perfect, equitable, utopian civilization with none of that imperialistic “better than thou” western stuff, right?
This is mind bogglingly insane. In fact, it is the equivalent of bleeding a tuberculosis patient to make them well.
Worse, as I understand in the absence of antibiotics, a shock to the system, if it doesn’t kill you, might just get your immune system in desperate fighting mode that cures the illness. (I understand that’s how the practice started) while trying to cure the ills of the third world while attacking the model of society that lifted the most people out of famine and desperate poverty in the long, sad history of mankind is just wanton and evil for no good reason.
It is obviously and clearly insane if you stand outside the theory which — in pure Marxist fashion — goes something like “People are poor because other people are rich” and look at the absolute sh*tshow of most of the world. Which are indeed poor and wretched (though still way better than they were before the rise of Western civ, whatever fantasies the left feed themselves) but mostly due to local customs (like mordida), corruption, tribalism, ineffectual or uneven laws, lack of freedom (of speech, marriage, residence, heck, living), etc. etc. ad nauseum. It is not because their SELF ESTEEM was hurt.
Which is at the bottom of it what most western leftists think. The third world only acts up and fails to be paradise on Earth because they have insufficient self esteem.
This is like Marxist psychological analysis done by morons, applying a theory that doesn’t even work for misbehaving kindergardners — or anything outside sitcoms, really — to complex, historically complicated, anthropologically complex regions PEOPLED BY REAL HUMANS. Self esteem, ladies and gentlemen. If we give them that, they will suddenly lose all their bad traits and become perfect angels. … In bad fiction, not even good one.
The tragic reliance on theory over real life — which most of the propagators of this nonsense never got to experience in any significant degree — is also responsible for the way Britain hid the rape gangs. And the way Britain lay supinely back, legs widespread to be invaded by all the dregs of the third world, the contents of prisons in places where prisons are filled with true horrors, and various gangsters of various stripes. Because if they just took them in and welcomed them with open arms, and ignored their little faux pas like well, raping minor girls of the host country, they would recover their self esteem, realize they were “as good as anyone” and instantly become perfect citizens. And then the academics could have their ideal society, where everyone marries someone of another race (no, seriously. Watch the latest British Mysteries. Or… Bridgerton) and everyone behaves like affluent liberals.
Most people refuse to examine things to this level. They laugh at “queering the maps” and move on without taking in the full picture, because it’s hard to believe real, adult human being can believe such a load of absolute nonsense.
In a while it is a measure of how successful Western Civ has been, that we raised and kept ADULTS, sometimes elderly people so innocent they can live in this sort of fairy tale and think that it makes perfect sense. We are so rich, so amazingly wealthy that we generated an entire class of people who have never had to DO anything real. They’ve never planted a garden, they’ve never looked after a dying parent, by and large they’ve never really cooked their own food, or raised their own kids. They have traveled, but never unchaperoned, without maps, and without gravitating to their counterparts in the countries/areas they visited. That’s how they can remain ignorant and deny such things as the third world’s usually hostile attitude towards women or gays. (And confuse things like forced transitioning in Iran with being good about transgender issues. Or confuse the boys raised as girls from an early age in the third world with tolerance of gay lifestyles.) And how they fail to understand that issues are way deeper than “self esteem.”
At personal, tribal or country level, really, self esteem tends to be highest where aggressive, destructive traits and behaviors are also highest.
Western civilization collapsing (no, I don’t think we are. Even Europe is showing signs of life. I just think the next century is going to be lit) wouldn’t raise anyone. Just collapse human civilization to maybe eighteenth century level for a long while.
Which is why I beg you not to look away. Yes. They really are this crazy. They really are this destructive.
They need to be laughed at, sure, but also confronted everywhere and have their pet theories ripped apart whenever they so much as dare to hint at them. We need to make them face the full glaring absurdity. Need to. For our own sake.
If you can homeschool your own kids. The indoctrination starts in kindergarten. Yes, even in good private schools. If they also receive government money, they have to conform to various governmental directives AND to the official curricula. You might be paying a lot for a better dressed version of your local public school. Bring the kids home. Homeschool them. Or read everything they learn and homeschool after school. It will make them a little cynical but that’s all to the good.
The only way this nonsense survives is that it’s pounded in so early it becomes revealed, unquestioned truth. Destroy indoctrination at all levels and do not give your kids to it. As well have them pass through the fire.
I’m not going to propose we raze universities and salt the ruins, but I am going to ask that before anyone donates to these organs you visit incognito, talk to their humanities students and find out what’s really going on. And also that anyone who has any power at official capacity in our government look into this nonsense. Yes, I think government is MOSTLY a force for destruction, but some things need to be destroyed, to be fair. Like, disconnected, head in the clouds theories.
That’s fair. Anti-Western theories want to destroy us and our way of life. I suggest we do onto them first.
And hurry.
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